Thread: 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.

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!

"...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.

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.

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.
;-)

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.