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12-29-2020, 07:25 PM #1Senior Member
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Big'un
Finishing up this 10/8 blade inspired by the 'George Brittain' razors (really Brittain, Wilkinson and Brownell). Slightly narrowed toe that I copied from a resto I saw. Blade is 1095 carbon steel, emery finish, horn scales, brass pins with nickel silver rivets. Wedge is going to be lead. Bevel angle comes out at 17.5 on this blade.
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12-29-2020, 07:36 PM #2Senior Member
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Looks like a winner to me even though I don't use blades that large.
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12-30-2020, 03:59 AM #3Senior Member
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Yep, that's a big'un alright. I suppose there comes a point of diminishing returns or of ridiculous...ness
(if that's a word) but I don't know where that line is. I think it is like the line rendered from a judge's (or maybe supreme court justice's) opinion about how to tell the difference between art and pornography: "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it."
Personally I like blades hollow ground and about 7/8" but not bigger... because I have never used one and don't have any that are bigger.Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17
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