Thread: I need to regrind/restore a blade.

Hi,

I bought recently a blade from a brazilian artizan (knife maker artizan) who started to make straight razors. Unfortunately my razor came with many fails and my question is: Who could regrind/restore my razor? (of course i'll pay for the work and shipment).

I tried to work the blade but i gave up. Is a very hard stainles steel blade.

The razor:

DSC_0301 by cariocarj01, no Flickr


DSC_0313 by cariocarj01, no Flickr

The razor has honewear on both sides, uneven bevel, i think something wrong on the spine close to the tang and the blade is not aligned with the scale.

Thanks.

Why not send it to the maker? They should stand behind their work!!

I'm with Ernie1980 as long as that is an option...

For local evaluation help you might want to reach out to birnando http://straightrazorpalace.com/members/birnando.html

Good luck...

I think I would send that back and tell them to contact me again after they learn how to make a razor.

I agree with you tree (criswilson10, MJC, Ernie1980) , but i want somebody else to do it.

Unless you have a sentimental attachment to that razor I would pass on a regrind\restore. As my grandfather was fond of saying.. "It's liken to putting lipstick on a pig." But if you insist on having it done look here in the classified section under member services. http://straightrazorpalace.com/class...wcat.php?cat=4

Looks like a Gold Dollar re-grind.

Probably not worth the cost to fix, the pin hole was not drilled straight.

Send it back…

For fear of offending you, i hope it was very cheap, unless the photos are not doing it justice it looks pretty shoddy.

Hi, Carioca.
I AM from Brazilian too and I know the maker of the blade. The artisan is a good-willed guy, a so-so knifemaker but just don't have the skills and know-how on what is a razor and how to make one.
His custom razors are made of good steel, but good razors are not made from good intentions. Return the product and buy a razor, IMO. Sorry.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Looks like a Gold Dollar re-grind.

Probably not worth the cost to fix, the pin hole was not drilled straight.

Send it back…

I was thinking on that, but i want somebody else to do the jobb.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

For fear of offending you, i hope it was very cheap, unless the photos are not doing it justice it looks pretty shoddy.

There is no offense on your comment edhewitt.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Matheus

Hi, Carioca.
I AM from Brazilian too and I know the maker of the blade. The artisan is a good-willed guy, a so-so knifemaker but just don't have the skills and know-how on what is a razor and how to make one.
His custom razors are made of good steel, but good razors are not made from good intentions. Return the product and buy a razor, IMO. Sorry.

I bought the razor in a atempt to suport the only one who makes St8razor in Brasil.
I saw the pictures on a brasilian forum and some was promising but not perfect and decide to buy one. But i'm not happy at all with the razor.
I have about 20 razor (solingen, french, swedish razors) and this one is not near to the quality of my others razors.

EDIT: I forgot to tell that he started to make razors about 6 months ago.