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04-27-2020, 09:48 PM #1King of the Shorties
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Gamble and Fail... :(
Just started to get into kamisori, and decided while on zombie apocalypse isolation, I would buy a fixer upper and spend some time making her work. I have done this successfully on several western blades, so this was going to be my first kamisori.
I bought an old Asanuma tamahagane. If I am going to do it, might as well do it right... right? Looking at the ebay photos, I thought most of what I was seeing was surface gunk, and not bad pitting near the edge. Well... getting it in hand, I spent 10 mins with 200 grit sandpaper, and about 20 mins with MAAS... to find I was wrong:
This is the toe.
Worse yet, about halfway down the other side of the blade from this nasty toe, I have this:
Win some, you loose some, I guess.
I may put an edge on it where it will take one, and make it a traditional Japanese box cutter.
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04-27-2020, 10:33 PM #2King of the Shorties
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Silly me... Put it on the 1K for funzies. It cuts arm hair now, but their aint no way I am going to shave with it!
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04-27-2020, 11:00 PM #3Senior Member
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"...good time Charlie's got the blues."
Happens to the best of us. It was my turn not long ago with a German blade that turned out to have Swiss cheese at the edge.
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04-28-2020, 01:03 AM #4King of the Shorties
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Its happened to me before too. A couple of years ago with a western blade. Ah well.. live and learn... and forget... and learn again.
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04-28-2020, 01:22 AM #5Senior Member
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When you gamble, you win some and you loose some. I have bought more than one razor from bad pictures and some I said wow, and the other I said things that shouldn’t be repeated on the forum.
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04-28-2020, 01:55 AM #6Home of the Mysterious Symbol
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Awwwww too bad. I have brought a couple of badly pitted kamis back from the dead but those were regular steel, homogenous, single alloy. I just kept grinding away until I had good steel at the edge. With tamahagane I honestly don't have a clue.
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04-28-2020, 02:30 AM #7King of the Shorties
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As you can see from the second pic, it will take quite some time to get to good steel!
I'd be getting close to cutting the razor in half! LOL!
I have another one coming in from the Netherlands that is in better shape, so I am hoping that one will work out for me better... If it even gets here! (covid international shipping... 27 days and counting!)PaulFLUS likes this.Recovered Razor Addict
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04-28-2020, 02:36 AM #8Senior Member
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Ouch! I think I would almost try to forget about it entirely and then when it does show up it's a pleasant surprise.
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