Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Nice response to a challenge tom.
Slow, methodical elimination of the sloppiness and voila. A tight razor that looks pretty cool!

Thanks, Mike and Steve! These are one-piece scales, folded, and double-pinned at the wedge-end. They are short. For a reason.

The blade is supposed to settle into the v-shaped end, right before the flat/rivets. Strange antique scales, for certain.

The blade may well get sent to some horn, bone, or ivory someday. For now, it has a home!


In retrospect, if I had drilled my pinhole at 7:30 instead of at 9:30 in this pic, it may have made a difference, putting the tang lower in the scales. The edge, however, is quite close to the bottom as it is. A little bit at the pivot means a LOT everywhere else!
I can see peening in a new slug of aluminum mandrel and redrilling the pinhole at a different location as an option as well.

Bravo..!! Tom

Needed a little quite time, so I started honing up the Herder skinny. 45 min. on the 600 Nani, 3 layers tape, and still have a shiny edge.
Damn hard steel this one is, but I'll break its will to fit mine,
Eventually...[emoji27]

That's a great solution and an excellent post, sharptonn. Really appreciate the pictures and the details of how you worked on it. Great looking razor, nice work!

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

That's a great solution and an excellent post, sharptonn. Really appreciate the pictures and the details of how you worked on it. Great looking razor, nice work!

Back 'atcha, tuzi! Thanks!
So we need a blade resto 'tute from you!

Originally Posted by outback

Needed a little quite time, so I started honing up the Herder skinny. 45 min. on the 600 Nani, 3 layers tape, and still have a shiny edge.
Damn hard steel this one is, but I'll break its will to fit mine,
Eventually...[emoji27]

MISTER Stabilizer! Take a few layers off, willya?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Back 'atcha, tuzi! Thanks!
So we need a blade resto 'tute from you!

Uh oh...!!!
Looks like Boss is gonna put ya ta work.
And ya better do him right, or do it again...Har!!


Just tell him....I's shakin it boss, I's shakin it.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

MISTER Stabilizer! Take a few layers off, willya?

Not yet...!!
Doesn't even have an edge on it.
You'd have to heat the blade to cut butter. But I will, once it gets some teeth on it. [emoji6]

Originally Posted by outback

Uh oh...!!!
Looks like Boss is gonna put ya ta work.
And ya better do him right, or do it again...Har!!


Just tell him....I's shakin it boss, I's shakin it.

Everyone shall pull their weight! Back to WORK!

tuzi? That means tomorrow's Wednesday.