Thread: Making lemonade from lemons

After a terrible mistake on my part my brand spanking new revisor 6/8 was left in pieces.


It took me a while to be able to pick it back up and decide where to go from there but I finally got around to it. Even though I know it is terrible to take such a beautiful razor and cut it down I wanted to see if I could make the remaining metal into more than a shattered letter opener. So I started to bread knife away… nearly honed all the way through my fingernail by not paying attention . Any how after laboring away I am pleased to present what I could salvage. And despite my doubts it sharpened up and passed the shave test with flying colors. Revisor uses some damned good steel.


Sad to see the razor go this way but glad to have something that I still find beautiful and functional.

Cheers,
Sailor

That must have been a long bread knifing session. Glad you could salvage the blade. Good on you for not scrapping it.

Hey you saved it ! Not so hard to look at now and will be a constant reminder. Lesson learned. We all have them.

I would have rounded the heel and toe a little more like the original but it looks good. It kept most of the detail, it would have been a real shame to let such a beauty go. How does it shave?

I'd be interested to see what the bevel angle is at now, and how long it preforms nice shaves. Would be interesting, I can only imagine that it's out of that "zone" that is typically aimed for. But more power too ya! What is it measuring now?

Nice work! I like the smaller version better myself !!

Originally Posted by Hart

I would have rounded the heel and toe a little more like the original but it looks good. It kept most of the detail, it would have been a real shame to let such a beauty go. How does it shave?

I thought about rounding it, but I don't mind the sharp transition. Plus I figured it would look something like a French tip now. Difficult to say how it shaves. I honed it up but need to start over and adjust my strokes or even out the spine, I have found with this razor as well as some of my others the toe or even that entire half of the razor doesn't create the edge I can get on the heel. Will have to spend some time with the marker figuring out my blades.

Also not sure what that angle will be now. I wore a lot of spine off. Perhaps in the future I will try and figure out a way bring the spine down and recreate the angle. The heel that did sharpen up did so tremendously. Like I mentioned before they're steel is no joke.