Thread: So it's come to this: Building my own tools.

There's been so much stuff going on lately I've had time to shave and pretty much nothing else razor-related. Which means this old Wostenholm has been sitting around on my desk in pieces.

It's got the old-style domed washers. I got it mostly back together today, but I needed some kind of receiver for tamping down the edges of the domes (I used washers underneath to put more even stress on the scales).

This lead me to thinking, which is always dangerous.

Zak, I thinks to myself, what you need is custom razor peening anvil!

The idea is as follows (I'll build it tomorrow when I've got good light):

I drill a hole in a short piece of wood and epoxy in a nut. I've got 4 different screws, each of those will get a different treatment. I'll start with just a simple concave and flat (both polished). Then I wrap the wood in non-skid mat, sand it all nice and smooth and bingo! I can adjust the depth of the receiving end so that when I hold the razor against the wood the pin gets supported at exactly the depth I want.

Cost? $4 and some time.

I also got a doming kit and a die-cutting kit, plus some brass stock to cut out both washers for doming and the super-thin washers to go between blade and scale.

Tomorrow there shall be pictures!