Thread: Please help me if you can!!! New razor destined for the bin?!

i work as a cnc gear grinder. after heat treating all the gears that come through our shop have a rockwell hardness of about 40 with a case hardening of around .0600 thick. this is almost impossible to drill through. i would guess that the handle of the razor, being thin is cased hardened completely through the entire tang. also the fact that the tang cracked so easily could indicate that during the manufacturing process the razor may not have been kept probably cooled leading to micro fractures in the steel. a nondestructive magpartical inspection would be able to eliminate this as a factor. also welding a heat treated piece of steel will distroy the case harding and the razors ability to hold as edge. if it were my razor i don't think i would invest any more money in it.

I also would recommend making it in to a Kamisori, but instead of drilling holes in the remaining tang I would make a nice hardwood handle and cut a notch in it to slide the remaining tang in to it securing it with a high strength epoxy. It would at least be an easier fix that would make it still usable.

Originally Posted by Silents

What about sending it out to someone that is forging their own razors? Ask them if they can melt it down, reuse the steel and make you a new one?

Erhm... no.

Melting down a razor takes resources and equipment that we typically don't have.
But even if we make do, we lose material (because steel remains in the crucible) and carbon (because it evaporates from the molten steel), and the little dribble of steel you get from a razor is not enough by far to make a new razor.

If you make a razor, a good amount of steel is ground away from the blank. If you'd somethow turn this razor into a new blank, you're going to lose material again; material which you already don't have to spare.

Besides, the amount of fuel you need for melting this razor would be more expensive than a razor sized steel bar of stock.

Hello,

by chance i just finished restauring an old sheffield that was broken at the same location. I soldered it with a spezial silver solder paste. Two aspects are important when doing this. You must use a very hot and focused flame (best is a propan or butan burner combined with oxygen) so u can bring in much energie in short Time. The second thing is, you must cover the rest of the Blade with wet tissues and sprink Water on them all the time. So a helping hand is recomended.
I managed to get it very close soldered and the brand is still visible. A little solder line will always remain, but i think thats better then nothing...

By the way, drilling hardened steel is no problem if u use a carbide drill. So the other solution of making a kamisori style razor out of it works too.

Good luck, and dont give up on it.

cheers,
Ulrik

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I can't speak for 'ULRIT' but you might want to PM him and see if he's willing to do the same for you!

URLIT: FANTASTIC WORK!!!

Originally Posted by cudarunner

I can't speak for 'ULRIK' but you might want to PM him and see if he's willing to do the same for you!:SHRUG:

I would gladly try my best if i am asked.

cheers,
Ulrik

Originally Posted by Ulrik

I would gladly try my best if i am asked.

cheers,
Ulrik

I personally want to thank you for your offer! The spirit that you’ve shown is what I’ve loved about joining and participating at SRP!!!

I do hope that your gracious offer is taken up!!

Thank you again!

Originally Posted by Ulrik

I would gladly try my best if i am asked.

cheers,
Ulrik

Out of personal curiosity... how did you weld it together?

Originally Posted by olbez

Out of personal curiosity... how did you weld it together?

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Originally Posted by cudarunner

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Ah my bad - didn't notice the second page in there...