Friday, December 16, 2011

8/8 x 3: Horn, Carbon Fiber, Damascus

Here are a few 8/8 I just finished up.
8/8 using O1 steel with a covered thump notches.
On this one everything has been rounded...spine, tang, tail, point...lol
Scales are horn with Koa wood wedge and domed washers





8/8 using 1084 steel. She is a big heavy Spanish point. Cutting edge is 3.5" long
scales are Carbon Fiber with silver twill g10 wedge, silver pins and washers.







8/8 High Carbon Damascus (PWS)
Spanish Point with worked spine. Ivory G10 scales with Mokuma Gane wedge
Silver and Brass stacked washers



Thursday, December 8, 2011

Low Layer Damascus in Orange G10



Here is one I just finished up. She's not for the conservative shaver...lol
She is LOUD and YELLS look at me...
9/8 Low Layer Damascus with a solid core.
Scales are hunter orange G10 with a silver twill G10 wedge, silver pins and small washers.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

A few 8/8's finished up

Here are a few 8/8 customs I finished up.
All turned out pretty well I think.
High carbon, pattern welded, G10, wood, boars tusk.... a little bit of everything..lol

EDIT: the round point below earlier... I removed the blue from the tang. Seems it wanted to attract rust to the pivot. So I unpinned it and cleaned it back up. While I was at it changed out the pinning for black SS torx bolts.

















Here are a few 8/8 customs I finished up.
All turned out pretty well I think.
High carbon, pattern welded, G10, wood, boars tusk.... a little bit of everything..lol

EDIT: the round point below earlier... I removed the blue from the tang. Seems it wanted to attract rust to the pivot. So I unpinned it and cleaned it back up. While I was at it changed out the pinning for black SS torx bolts.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

3 8/8's started

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.
Time for family, food and relaxing...
With the relaxing over and finally getting over the funk I've had for a few weeks. It was time to start a few more razors.
3 - 8/8 Damascus razors and a couple of high carbon ones not pictured.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

8/8 non-folder with red horn

Here is one I just finished up.
It made of 1095 steel. 8/8 size with about 2 1/4" cutting edge, symmetrical grind.
Instead of using a wrap for the handle or leaving it bare, red horn was requested.
I think overall it came out pretty nice!


Sunday, November 6, 2011

2 Customs finished

Well, here are the 2 razors finished.
I think both turned out great.
The W&B copy has horn scales with a dark red G10 wedge with stacked pins.
The Kamisori I added just a little wrapping to "set-off" the twisted handle.





Saturday, October 29, 2011

A little more work done

Did a little more work on the W&B copy and Kamisori.
Tapered the tail, cut the jimps, a little file work and 1st normalization.
I thought I would try something I've seen on a few of Charlie's razors. So since the Kamisori doesn't have a home yet, I'm free to experiment with things... Anyway I twisted the handle on Kamisori to make it a little interesting. After I twisted it I hammered it back somewhat flat.

Mostly cleaned up an ready for some heat.

Into the fire


After a cool down

Friday, October 28, 2011

A couple more started.

OK lets try this again. Maybe I'll do better!
So I started 2 more this week.
One Kamisori
It's going to be around 8/8 with a 2" cutting edge.
The other razor is based on a Wade & Butcher  "Ottoman Egyptian and Royal Windsor" razor
1st pic - Cut out and initial shaping.

2nd pic - initial hollowing



Thursday, October 27, 2011

8/8 Kamisori, traditional asymmetrical grind

Here is a fun one I finished up.
I thought I would practice my asymmetrical Kamisori grinding.
She is a fun little (big) razor.




Here it is next to a 7/8 Filly

So much for keeping up with progress..lol

Well, I truly did intend to try and follow the most recent razors... Just wasn't meant to be.
It started with a impromptu trip my wife and kid took to see a friend for 4 days. As luck would have it, the wife took the camera with here. So I thought "no big deal", so I'll miss a couple pics at the start..
Before I new it, I almost had them done.....lol
So a figured at least I could post some finished pics..
2 of the 3 are done. The last one is done minus the scales (working on them)

10/8 Custom, jimps top bottom
Horn scales with bone wedge and stacked washers




8/8 Spanish'ish point, jimp top and bottom
Scales are Horn with a red G10 liner, wedge is horn and G10 and silver pins with small washers.