Thread: 7/8 Hollow grinding

Originally Posted by jfk742

Any progress to report? Love to see what other makers are up to.

I'll have a bit more to post next week, been fairly busy recently since we are now haying our fields.

I did get some work done yesterday afternoon on a few of the wedge grind razors, all grinding done apart from putting the undercut in and polishing the barber notch. I have some of the scales made up but won't get a chance to set the blades in until next week and also finish off the other razors. I also have a 10/8 razor pre-ground for HT and some full hollows in rough ground state.

Finishing the 10/8+ razor, spine, grob and barber notch taken to a full polish, tang and blade left in a glazed finish. For the polish I worked up through my selection of Trizact belts, ending at 5 micron and then going first to a felt belt loaded with compound then a buffing wheel. For the glazed surfaces I worked up to the 5 micron then went back down to an 800 grit cork belt running about 25% speed, slowly drawing the blade across the wheel until the finish was even. Just needs undercuts which I always put in last. This blade is somewhere between a quarter hollow to wedge when done, it was ground on a 10 inch contact wheel but the edge gets quite thin at these blade widths so when you pluck the edge it has the sound of a hollow grind. Always grind so that the edge flexes under the thumbnail. Going to mount this blade in brown horn scales with brass pins and washers, lead wedge. Blade is 1095.

That is a gorgeous big blade. It looks heavy enough to wipe whiskers away under its own weight.

Can’t wait to see it when it is fully dressed in scales and hardware.

Finishing up some of the smaller razors, example below. Waiting on some more horn for the big chopper, couldn't quite squeeze two scales out of the pieces I have.

That already looks fantastic!

Nice looking progress. The classic lines and horn bring it together well.