Thread: All of my recent work, customs and restorations

Hey guys! I know I'm not on as much as I used to be but I am very much active on the social media end. I have been busy as always learning tons and actually started making knives too.

I'm proud to announce that my custom razors I have been working so diligently on are finally starting to look like work that I would buy! It has been a huge pain in the ass to get everything symmetrical but as of late I have really been shown some serious improvement. The thing that finally made the huge difference was finally purchasing the capital VFD. Controlling the speed of my Belt down to a snails pace to do my final grinding and detailed work. Presently I'm playing around with finishes, I currently am using a trizact, cork and scotch brite belts and have been mixing and matching just seeing what works. I think my favorite thus far are the scotch brite and corks.


I have also built another grinder! I made a KMG clone and am currently in the works in finishing it up so when I'm done I'm sure I'll post some pictures sooner or later... So now I'll have a vertical and horizontal grinder, I am also running both grinders with the 1 kbac 27-D.

What is also new with my heat treating is in using cryogenic hardening, it's really been a blast learning metallurgy. I have been lucky enough to meet a knife maker here in Colorado who has been making knives the last 30 years so he has been giving me some awesome recipes. I've also been reading a book called metallurgy for the non-metallurgist just so I know why I take each step...

Well here are some pictures of my work! As always thanks guys!




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I don't know what happened to the pictures but here they are lol and a video! I didn't know we can do that lol

https://vimeo.com/182190225


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What's pic num 2 showing?

Excited to see your developments!

Any pics of the grinders?

Originally Posted by dinnermint

What's pic num 2 showing?

Excited to see your developments!

Any pics of the grinders?

Here is an actual thread I did on the first grinder build, maybe when I'm done with the newest grinder I'll make another thread on t as well... http://straightrazorpalace.com/forge...dventures.html

The second picture is showing a piece of 2" X 18" X 1/4" 01 tool steel flat stock, I've actually never bought a piece that wide before so I was drawing out my razors on them to see how many would fit

Wow, your enthusiasm for learning is contagious, Fonz! Love those big blades, and that pair of Ducks is stunning!