Thread: Recent custom razors, workshop, random projects and updates

Hey guys! Well I'm no where near as active as I on the forums as I used to be but I am still very busy perfecting this craft! I started a year ago almost exactly, I had some taidea stones (very cheap) and was honing gold dollars. If someone told me then that I would be where I am today, I wouldn't believe it. I have never been one for anything artsy, or crafty. I am into this with no experience in metal working or wood working. Thanks to the community here I don't think I could have had such a head start along side of getting help locally. (Which is still appriciated!) well I thought I would post some of my recent work and my shop!

once more I would like to thank everyone who helped me along when I first started! I would post my work and ask for critiques and those really helped. Along with everyone's knowledge I had some very helpful dialog!

alright so here are the pictures I'm going to run though very briefly about them if u have more questions or suggestion on how to do it better let me know!


Doing some orginzing zing in the shop I have my oils and polishes on the top also the green rolls in the middle is alligator tape, I dont know if any other people new to grinding have this problem but doing final grinding bare handed and burning urself slightly for several razors I start to bleed... I now use the alligator tape and it's thin enough to feel the heat and protect my fingers a bit lol (nothing like literally putting blood and sweat into ur work!) let's see other things I feel I should mention is tru-oil, it really is amazing stuff, Makes wood really pop! Everything else is pretty standard, filed, pinning box, scale material/liners/wedge material oh yeah tums super important! Lol


I have scrap razors that I try my new stuff with so this razor and the etched razor weren't sold but I just tried something new on those so if i don't like it it doesn't matter... So the brass in the shank of the razor, I did by drilling the holes then chamferd the holes. Put the brass stock in the hole and peened the round stock.. I learned that u have to really watch how much brass u leave to pin because it comes out different sizes like in the picture. i don't have newer picture of this work but I have gotten better at it...

the etched razor, first I buffer and polished the razor to a mirror shine so that the difference in the colors would really pop! The resist I did was with nail polish, which was a pain in my ass so I switched to model paint which worked a lot better. But now I am playing around with iron on transfer paper and an ink jet to put the resisit on the steel, I was hoping to be able to make crisper lines using photoshop, I have yet to get a successful transfer. I first used hot vinegar for the etching solution which didn't seem to work all that well so I switched it to 20 minutes in ferric chloride and that was the result in the above picutre! Much better!



These are my blades after heat treat on 01 steel and I used to only do 1500 degrees then a dunk in heated canola oil. Since I have done a ton of reading about heat treatment and steel. I actually reccommend a book called "steel metallurgy for the non-metallurgist, which has taught me a great deal about stressing the steel, grain structure, normalizing and heat treatment and now my recipie involves normalizing the steel in a couple cycles, then heat treating, I do a snap temper and dunk in LN2... Of course it could just be me but since I started cryogenic hardening I feel my edges really have improved!



Here are some pictures of my work recently! The first two don't have the final polish on them but I was having some serious issues with even grind lines a while ago so I made it my main focus to cure and so I challenged myself to make them as thin as possible... I have vastly improved since...


If u haven't used kirinite tortious shell, I love the stuff! That is all



The belts I used are ceramic 36 60 120 then onto some trizact belts a65 a45 and just recently I have been using these cork belts! They last a long long time the only downside to it was breaking them in which is kinda like an art I've found a balance of u will... What I like about them is they polish and have abrasives in them, u put some green compound and wow! What a finish!





Added some new lights

well thats what I've been up to! Just to think last year everything used to be in a box in my living room lol now this stuff is everywhere! Like I said if u have any questions or comments on anything feel free to shoot!

thanks again SRP,
Fonz

Wow, lots of work. Funny how time flies in the shop.

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Looks like your having fun!

Very impressed with how you are coming with your blades, especially since you say you aren't artsy craftsy. especially like the etching. Look forward to seeing more.

Originally Posted by Clayglen

Wow, lots of work. Funny how time flies in the shop.
has flew by
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Yeah time has certainly flew by!
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Originally Posted by Chevhead

Looks like your having fun!

A blast!

Originally Posted by tintin

Very impressed with how you are coming with your blades, especially since you say you aren't artsy craftsy. especially like the etching. Look forward to seeing more.

Exactly so if I can do it anyone can!