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It all happened so quick and unexpectedly. I had a newer 36 grit on and was sneaking up on the last few thousandths. I was grinding with the shoulder just touching the edge of the belt, while...

Well had an S show of a day yesterday. I had two razors that had been hardened and was just finishing up the hollows. I was cleaning up the shoulder and somehow caught it on the belt and it shifted...

Probably should of been my first guess. Quality. Hard to spend what I did on 2”,3”,4”,6”,8” for one 8” wheel though. I guess as money permits I’ll need to upgrade.

Darwin?

How do you keep your wheels true? Or true them up if they’re out?

Push stick for the win.

The stick is 1/8”x 5/8”x 11” long. If the grinder decided to take it away from me most likely would only break the stick and or the belt. Belt is a used up 36. My preference would of been to chuck...

A little update:

The wheels I bought needed some dressing. I took a piece of wood that was flat and used spray adhesive to attach some 220 grit sand paper and spent some time flattening my...

Definitely following the smile as I work back and forth. I need to work on technique some too. Running the blade on the contact wheel while it’s stopped shows me that I should be able to do that...

I gave it some thought last night and I’m pretty sure you’re right. I gave my 6” a slight crown. It’s odd though seems there is more tension at the center than the edges. With a straight edge...

So I started rough grinding, not sure what I’m doing wrong. I tried to capture the grind lines in the light so you can see what’s going on.

The hollows are parallel at the edge within .002”...

Hoping to pass them around and see if I can’t have some of you shave with them. Need some pointers on ergonomics and such, see how the edge holds up, etc...

Turned out the larger of two’s edge was ok, just needed to hone back a little more, about 1/32” (a little less than 1mm). Probably just caught the edge right towards the end of grinding. Haven’t...

Got side tracked yesterday. I forged both of the razors using channel locks, they are less than ideal, too short and bent. Picked up some 5/8” round bar and watched a couple videos then went about...

Did some clean up with hand sanding on the tang to blend the tang to the spines.

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Forgot to take pictures of the other one with the thumb notch before I scaled it.

Here’s a...

Got all the grinding done. I need to spend some time on the buffer for the hollows and think I’ll end up with a 1k w/d sand paper finish for the tang and spine. The blades are a little dirty and...

VSM? I think I saw them on Pop’s.

I’m thinking I’ll try and make a western type kamisori and cool around with different tempering heats to see what hardness makes for a well rounded edge.

Both the blades were tempered x2 at 400f...

Yeah both skated files like they were made of glass. The belt grinder is a bit slow and I’m down to my last 36 grit blaze belt. Any recommendations for belts? I need to make another order and need...

That’s pretty incredible, especially considering how long it takes me to forge a blade.

Finished rough grinding and heat treating. I started off at 1650f cooled to black, 1600 cooled to black,...

Thanks Zak, those are helpful measurements.

Did some forging today and as far as the slight smile is concerned I think it was more of a by product of forging the blade faces. As I hammered in the...

Wow, the pique work and carving on the ivory scaled blade is beautiful. It would appear the ivory scaled razor and the J. Barber are ground differently. The Ivory scaled razor looks to be evenly...

I just saw your stub tail, she’s a beaut.

If you wouldn’t mind, could you take a couple of pics of it for me? One from the top of the spine to the tail and another looking at the edge and the...

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Currently an 1” from spine to edge. I should end up at 7/8+ assuming no unforeseen “modifications”. Blade length is a touch under 3”.

Made a little progress. Forged the blank and forgot to take pictures. It was pretty ugly and took me about 2 hours to forge and normalize. I attempted to anneal the blank by leaving it in a red...

Charlie: I need my grinding to be good because my blacksmithing skills are questionable at best.

Victor: I’ll make some coupons and see.

My buddy had me heat treat a couple of 1095 knives he...