Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by RezDog

If you use a carbide tipped drill bit, like the ones made for drilling hard plate at a very low speed and a fair bit of pressure it should go quote fast and lots of coolant you would be golden.

If it was mine, and the hole of that squarish type, I'd just tap some copper, brass, bronze or whatever with a different color to pin it and polish it flat to preserve the contour. Probably just the same if round.

Hey, sharptoon, have you an old gold ring you will not use anymore? Would be a great source of metal to fill the hole. Ex-wives souvenirs are good to make things like this.

I don't belong here but I like lurking, wanting to be around the cool kids. All I do is maintain my razors...this includes the occasional pin tightening.
Looking at the beautiful anvil that outback fashioned from a piece of rail track...I felt a little inadequate with my little bench anvil...no actual bench for me as I live in an apartment. Everything has to be small here. I started thinking about my use of the anvil and I came up with this: when pin tightening I only use a small (pin size ) part of the anvil. So I started thinking, what else could I use for an anvil?
Here is what I came up with...can't say I made it which is why I don't belong here. But what the heck. The ball bearing is G25 grade, 0.000025" round. I eyeballed it and I think they are right. Had to look for an appropriate base which was the base for a pot (turned upside down), which holds the pitch that engravers use. Now, I wonder if it will work...so far so good. The sphere is 3" in diameter.

Great kludge, WW243! Three inches, that's a big BB! And welcome to the most classy derailed thread of the SRP. Hard to guess by its name, but with a lot of great treasures spilled all over the embankment.
Nice luthier hammer you have!

Nice ball-bearing anvil, Bill! No ex-wife gold around, Matheus! I figure as I will thin the tang down, I had better just weld-up the hole!

So, on another note, MikeT's razor was pretty much breadboarded, so a few layers of tape, swooping on a worn DMT, it came up super pocketknife sharp all along the edge after a bit of work. Looky at that bevel! Going to dull it a bit on a glass bottle and bring it back with one layer.
I shall destroy a 5 day beard with it to-morrow morning!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Ohhtay, MikeT. I see you down there.....
I was inspired by my Charlie Lewis razor this morning....

How's about a Searsasori? I could sandblast the pin-hole and have a buddy tig it up. Henry Sears & Son would still be on the tang.
Would be lots of work.

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Tom, this reminded me of something similar that I did a couple of years ago. It was not such a big task as I thought it would be. It started as a microtome which I decided to cut down and add a rosewood handle.

Originally Posted by WW243

I don't belong here but I like lurking, wanting to be around the cool kids. All I do is maintain my razors...this includes the occasional pin tightening.
Looking at the beautiful anvil that outback fashioned from a piece of rail track...I felt a little inadequate with my little bench anvil...no actual bench for me as I live in an apartment. Everything has to be small here. I started thinking about my use of the anvil and I came up with this: when pin tightening I only use a small (pin size ) part of the anvil. So I started thinking, what else could I use for an anvil?
Here is what I came up with...can't say I made it which is why I don't belong here. But what the heck. The ball bearing is G25 grade, 0.000025" round. I eyeballed it and I think they are right. Had to look for an appropriate base which was the base for a pot (turned upside down), which holds the pitch that engravers use. Now, I wonder if it will work...so far so good. The sphere is 3" in diameter.

I have a ball bearing about that size & never even thought about it but it's in my large Snap on toolbox & I don't go in there unless I'm needing a tool or working on a Harley. Great idea!!!!

@Shaun
That's what I use for drilling pivot holes, carbide drill bits. You have to have it going at a high speed or it will break the bit since carbide is hard yet brittle. I guess you can go slower but I found that when I went slower, the bit would grab & snap. When i go faster, it goes through like drilling butter. I have 1/16", 3/32" & 1/8" carbide drill bits.

@UKRob
You really did cut that down. It is so small that I would be worried about it being too fragile! Clever fix though.

Originally Posted by engine46

I have a ball bearing about that size & never even thought about it but it's in my large Snap on toolbox & I don't go in there unless I'm needing a tool or working on a Harley. Great idea!!!!

@Shaun
That's what I use for drilling pivot holes, carbide drill bits. You have to have it going at a high speed or it will break the bit since carbide is hard yet brittle. I guess you can go slower but I found that when I went slower, the bit would grab & snap. When i go faster, it goes through like drilling butter. I have 1/16", 3/32" & 1/8" carbide drill bits.

That made me laugh because the brand of bits I get for hard plate is Butter Bits.

Originally Posted by RezDog

That made me laugh because the brand of bits I get for hard plate is Butter Bits.

Ha, ha...............that's funny Shaun!!!!!

Some pivot holes are so out of round I have to use a small rat tail file to make them as round as I can get them & sometimes get lucky going lower speeds. On others I get my drill going high speed & hit the hole & it goes through. I hate twist drills when they break but I do have a friend that can sharpen them because I used to work there. I have some straight flute carbide bits that if the end breaks off, no big deal, they still work.

Originally Posted by RezDog

@UKRob
You really did cut that down. It is so small that I would be worried about it being too fragile! Clever fix though.

Thanks Shaun. It was tempered steel so still very strong even though I'd taken off a lot of material. I used a dremel and various grinding bits and got down to that shape quite quickly.