Thread: What are you working on?

It was good practise Tom. I am very happy you sent them. They are not perfect, but they will soon be back to being functional razors. Now that I am doing the hand sanding, and seeing the things I could have done better makes the learning process continue. At this point I think I should do some bevel setting to make sure my grind is still straight.

They look nice. Were they all originally wedges, or some made more hollow?

Did the John Barber box say
"Made by Barbers, for barbers?"

They were and are all wedges. I would hate to try to regrind anything that was already thinner than a half hollow. There was a thread a long time ago where someone ground just the hone wear from near the spine on a full hollow. It had begun its life likely near 8/8 but with ham fisted honing made it to 7/8, and it looked great.

Were you able to grind past that enormous pit on the Barber, Shaun?

There is still some minor sign of it on the back.

Those little holes are quite deep.

I would probably have been more comfortable practicing on a railroad spike.
Look forward to seeing the finished product and a cross section of the grinds.

Originally Posted by RezDog

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Tom sent me these blades to regrind while I was at the meet in Texas. Now comes the hand sanding portion of that job as I had only rough ground them in Texas. Next time I will look for higher grit belts and go a little further. Dave’s belt grinder has an electronic speed control and was very easy to dial down and regrind nice and slow and easy, which was very nice for a beginner.

How did you sneak those in? I never saw you working on them.

I did those after we made the pattern welded billet and did all the grinding on my bad ass razor.
:-)

Well, congrads on the work you did shaun. Id think a 3" wide belt would be the perfect size for regrinding. No back and forth movement. But i wasnt there and three inch was probably not an option. I know you will make them shave once again.

I would expect 2 inches is the widest for grinding razors, Jerry.
Watch some videos on how it's accomplished. Razors have smiles and such cannot be accomplished by flat-grinding. The spine/blade profile must be followed as-grinding I expect.