Thread: Emulating the Pro's

Well done; Joe's a good man to emulate . . . let's see pictures!

Let's see the bloody vise-razor pictures!!

Actually, I was working just the other day with a similar set up and was thinking how much it would suck to lose sight of that edge sticking up.....

On an up side, at least the metal was clean when you decided to introduce it to your insides.... Imagine one of those gunked up eBay specials shaking hands with your blood supply?!

Sorry to hear of your injury, but sometimes the best lessons are learned the hard way....

C utz

Tempered the old-fashioned way - doused in human blood!

Sorry to hear that Greg and I hope all is well (no infections or anything like that).

James.

ahaha... will post a couple of pics on the weekend

As a couple of you know I work a week on/week off basis remote from my home (and toys) so i dont have my digi-cam with me... going home friday night though

C.Utz... you're right, Ive thought that myself. I secure the razor this way because i find it easy to rub with micromesh with the fat side down. And i have often looked at the sharp edge and thought it would suck to come into contact with it.

When using rotating machines i always hold the work about 5mm away from the belt or wheel and picture in my mind which way it would go if I lost my grip on it... obviously if it looks like coming toward me i find another contact angle to achieve the same result, if it looks like it wont come toward me i go ahead am make contact with the belt... i guess you tend to see a stationary vice as a lesser threat.

No infections or anything Jimbo... nice clean cut... spotlessly clean razor.

Actually... this ties together well with the thread in "off topic" about public health care. It was sunday when this happened, so the public ER was the only viable choice... while i had to wait 5hrs to get treated, i couldnt see this as the fault of the ER staff who were all fantastic... i counted about 8 ambulances that rolled in with people much more hurt than i was.

The doctor that stitched my arm up was Iranian... had been here only about 12 months. But he did a great job and was an interesting and funny bloke to talk to... i doubt an Aussie quack would have done any differently.

Jimbo you might be right about the "old fashioned way" the japanese may consider this razor to have its own soul now that it has drawn blood... have to ask my partner about that (she's japanese)

Actually... might not ask her about it... Im already getting the usual treatment from her over this.

Greg Frazer

hope your feeling better real soon,sorry for being a pest and I know every one has their own way of doing things , so forgive my stupidity ,but I jus can`t imagine why it would be necessary to place a razor in a vice blade side up,come to think of it I can`t remember ever placing a razor in a vice at all. I`m not having a go at you ,I`m just curious, thats all , anyway I hope your on the mend and back in the saddle real soon
Kind regards Peter

Originally Posted by bg42

... so forgive my stupidity... etc

I have 12 stitches in my forearm that shouldnt be there... so I wont be casting any stones

In fact it's not a stupid question at all.

The reason I do this, and I hasten to add that i only do this at the very end of working on a blade, it so that when I am rubbing the blade with the 12k micromesh pad then pressure is naturally being directed into the curve of the hollow... that doesnt even read right to me...

If you picture a line running through the blade from spine to leading edge... you're looking at the blade head on... sharpe side up... I want the rubbing pressure to be at 45degrees to that line... down and accross.

I imagine there are better ways of achieving the same end and i might look into this a little more... though, fact is that i didnt get cut while working on the blade. The mistake i made here was securing the blade in the vice then walking away to do something else. When i spotted what i was after on the bench I completely lost sight of the blade still in the vice... like it was invisible.

Lesson learned anyway...

Greg Frazer

I've had the blade like this in the vice, because I've been playing around with custom file work, and to get the underside of the tang....well, you know where I'm going.

Also, since I use a pivot clamp, I tend to clamp down the tang and sand the blade face that way..... I don't have the Bill Ellis fancy blade holder-set up. I'd like to rig one someday though. Probably after I slice open my arm on my vice-clamped razor.




C utz