Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I never oil my blades. Just tuff-glide one time before honing!

Hard to believe Bruno makes such nice razors from those ugly little chunks, eh?

quite a sight indeed eh?
Admittedly, this is partly because I do my forging in charcoal atm which mean it's very easy to get bad scaling. And esp the thicker billet where I use borax as flux, that always leaves a thick crust on the outside where the flux and the charcoal touch.

Sometime early next year I want to switch to propane, which should give me a cleaner fire, and also make it much easier to make my own Damascus billets.

Tom,, best man cave ever.. period!!!
Bruno. Those are the kind of projects I hope to attempt, when I grow up,, lol.
Looking forward to more wip pics if you get the chance. Love your finished works..
Cheers..

Tom, very cool room, love the attention to detail, enjoy it my friend.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Really nice setup Tom, can't wait to see it grow. Looks like there is some space on that one black cabinet for a nice little Avon Truck.

Cannot grow much, John. I think it's full! (burp!)

Junk guy around the corner has 1000 Avon bottles......Any special requests?
I saw a liberty bell.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I never oil my blades. Just tuff-glide one time before honing!

Hard to believe Bruno makes such nice razors from those ugly little chunks, eh?

I only use Tuf-Glide as well, on the pivot pin area once when I get a new blade.

How do you use before honing? This sounds like it will be very cool....gather it won't contaminate the stones?

Originally Posted by Phrank

I only use Tuf-Glide as well, on the pivot pin area once when I get a new blade.

How do you use before honing? This sounds like it will be very cool....gather it won't contaminate the stones?

A drop on the tang, 2 on the blade wipe across the blade with the thumb, across the backside with the thumb.
pull it off the bevel up and down. Smear on the spine, tip, tang and tail.
Wipe it all off with a towel, same way. Strop on the towel. Wash hands. In a decent environment, no issues for many many years. It's a dry lube and protectant. Supposed to be wiped-off.
Gets in the pores of the steel.

I received this "Robeson Shur Edge " recently and it had never been honed. I figured it would be an easy hone. Well I was wrong. Tried to set the bevel on a 1k Naniwa but wasn't getting anywhere. The middle of the blade on one side wasn't completely in contact with the stone. So I backed up to a 600 DMT for a while and am not quite there yet. I'm going to go to the 325 DMT since at this point I think the only solution is to remove material until it starts to even out. I have high hopes for this blade since it is New York steel but thankfully didn't pay much for it.

I don't believe that the DMT 325 is going to be your friend. Have you tried the 1" thing? Give that a try with one layer of electrical tape. See here:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...than-mile.html

Cuda speaks the truth. Save that thing till you get some hands-on. The wrong pressure, the wrong way will create more issues as you go along. JMO

Thanks for the tip. I am using tape, 1 layer of 700, just wanted to say that. As to the 1" line I can see this working on the toe end but not sure about how to address the heel with this method. Or maybe I can... I'll give it a try. Thanks guys