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You confirmed my fears about filling them. Stabilizing them may be the way to go. I tried waxing the hell out of them and that was a fail. When you buff the wax off you clean the wax out of the...

The bone is really nice to work with Shaun. Do you ever try and fill the pores? I was thinking CA, like a gap filler. Thoughts?

Thanks, Shaun. I’m still not happy with the finish on the blade face. It’s a Trizact a/o A6 finish. My wheels aren’t perfectly true, should have spent the money on a vetted brand.

The touch...

Speaking of expensive hobbies, got this done a few days ago, I have a couple of shaves on it and find the blade profile isn’t my favorite for shaving though love the way the profile looks. Access to...

I ground a couple of hardened Dorko 444 6/8” blanks in that style of grind. I used my flat platen and ran the blade parallel to the direction of belt travel. With that method it wasn’t much slower...

Looks good to me. The bevel could be smaller but if you’ve had enough I’d call it. Helluva a job for a regrind with the tools you’ve described, imho.

Is that without tape? Will you be honing...

That’s where I started. My first regrind was on a wood lathe with an mdf wheel and charged with greaseless. Worked for crap but really got me excited. Then there was the Texas meet and the rest is...

Paul, Bruno was kind enough to supply the link to the video I had in mind.

FYI: I grind edge leading throughout the process. There is a definite possibility of catching. My body mechanics don’t...

I do everything freehand except for profiling, I use a tool rest to lay the razor flat.

I think of hollow grinding like setting a bevel. You can feel when the razor is where it should be on the...

I messed around with this bellied hollow. Took some progression shots but no video. I went to the edge as well. It was too likely for me to make a mistake to try and go to zero.

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Paul, I find it helpful to run the blade with no tape on a hone to show you how high you can grind the top of the hollow and to the edge. Make sure the bevel is set, not perfect just toe to heel....

Love the color nessmuck, hopefully we get more pictures when she’s put together.

Got it done, reluctantly satisfied with the blade finish. I know I’m capable of much better but it was time to...

Sanded out to 320 all the way around. Still a little stiff in my opinion. They don’t balance well either. I’ll thin them a bit more. After some more consideration I think collars are more...

How is it getting it off the back of the scale?

Here’s the jig in use:

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It’s just a piece of scrap I had laying around. I drilled an arbitrary hole to start, stuck a piece of ss pin stock in there, just shorter...

Spent some time at the bench making scales. I forgot to take pictures of my little fixture for shaping the scales, I’ll set it back up and take some pictures. I needed to modify the design with a...

Yup, bellied full hollow.

Nice write up Rez. I’ve had my eye out for a cheap swivel vise. I may just sacrifice a smaller bench vise and do Charlie’s bowling ball vise setup.

Looking good Shaun!

Did some hand sanding and fixed the lines as best I possibly could with what patience I have. The finish is way better but not sure I’m happy with sanding lines, they could be...

Those are sure looking nice. Is it one of those uncirculated blades you’re sticking in it? I really should have bought a bunch of those when they were going for $50-$70... that and apple stock.

I chased it a ways, any thinner above the belly and I’d start grinding a hole through it. Only way to do it now without causing irreparable harm would be hand sanding, and I abhor hand sanding. The...

Got moving again on this today. I kind of got fed up as belly isn’t even on one side. I stopped chasing the line before something catastrophic happened.

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We’ll see, that’s the idea for now. It would be nice to get a whole weekend to devote to making a razor instead of picking it up and putting it down, it has made for a bunch of easily avoided...

Fairly hollow. The initial hollow was with a 6” wheel, then I went straight to a 3”. I think I’m going to thin out a little more. Right now the fuller has a .20” web thickness atm. Doesn’t flex...

Been working on this on and off for a couple of months. Screwed up the relief cuts at the tang blade junction. Still plenty of steel there to clean them up. The geometry is a little wonky but sits...

That Mike is no dummy. I appreciate you guys sharing your knowledge with those willing to listen even if you’re just passing it along.