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

Originally Posted by WhiskerHarvest

You could drill and tap the razor, add a handle, wrap it and use the razor like a kamisori. You could drill both pieces and use a peg two join the two halves. Alignment will be an issue but with a little patience, maybe an undersized peg and some JB weld the sky is the limit!

Hope that doesn't sound crazy, just trying to be helpful.

I'm with you,,tap 2 small holes in what's left of the tang, epoxy or pin it into a nice wood handle.

The fact that the tang snapped means its probably very hard . Drilling would be like drilling a file IMHO.

Drilling is not an option. However, laser beam welding would work, and be near invisible. The amount of heat transferring to the blade would be negligible.

As everyone is saying, non folder. The Korn "The Real" razor is made like that. Find some sweet handle material.

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?

I vote for the laser weld and repair the hole with a carbide dremel bit. Patience coupled with the right expertise could very well pull this off.

Jerry
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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.

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