Thread: Can't drill the tang....

That is bizarre! Evidently China has discovered Durasteel.... welcome to the 24th century, straight shavers!

one thing youve got to watch, is that it could very well be that this blade was just hardened quite a bit, you run into the problem more with heavy metal generally that has been welded, but if you dont know the way one tempers steel is essentially you heat it up and cool it off really quickly (theres more to it than that but thats basically it) and really youd have to heat it to rather high temperatures (like a good solid red color atleast) and then let it cool very slowly to have any great effect on the hardness of the steel, now as im sure u can image on a razor that would be highly unadvised since it would be almost impossible to get a good temper back to the blade after this (it is very hard to do properly even to experience metal workers)

id have to imagine though a high quality bit a good drill press plenty of oil and patience will go on and punch on through

Originally Posted by center5150

one thing youve got to watch, is that it could very well be that this blade was just hardened quite a bit, you run into the problem more with heavy metal generally that has been welded, but if you dont know the way one tempers steel is essentially you heat it up and cool it off really quickly (theres more to it than that but thats basically it) and really youd have to heat it to rather high temperatures (like a good solid red color atleast) and then let it cool very slowly to have any great effect on the hardness of the steel, now as im sure u can image on a razor that would be highly unadvised since it would be almost impossible to get a good temper back to the blade after this (it is very hard to do properly even to experience metal workers)

id have to imagine though a high quality bit a good drill press plenty of oil and patience will go on and punch on through

As people may have noticed, I have worked on more than a couple of these DA razors...they have always been quite easy to drill out the tang, same as most any other razor I have had to do that to (vintage Sheffield, or Solingen, whatever), and then these last two have had this same issue.

The previous one honed up no problemo, and actually took a very nice edge. So, who knows?

well i more meant if you were heating the metal to extreme temperatures and then allowing it to cool slowly to soften the metal, and the problems in trying to keep the blade tempered correctly
i cant imagine the drilling affecting the temper much beyond right around the whole

it does also soung like a pretty interesting endeavor