Anyone ever machine their own safty razor?
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CooncatBob is about as close as you'll get. He machines and plates his own handles and sells them with replated Gillette New heads. Look him up. His company is Bob's Razor Works, if you're not already familiar with him.
And he does some beautiful work.
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Why plate? Why not just make them out of high quality stainless and call it good?
The humble 2 piece head isn't as simple as it looks.
Off by a few .0001 and your razor is either too aggressive or too mild and there's also a tolerance factor with the blades, different brands aren't all exactly the same size.
Make things too tight and some blades won't fit properly.
If you decide to make your own razor you'd be well advised to get feed back from the members of these forums on what they think makes a great razor.
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Hmm, I wounder if blade/head size combination has more to do with why some people think one brand of blade is better than another, more so than personal preferance or hair density. Well I'm going to talk to someone about it and see what it would cost to make a prototype. I'm not worried about percision because it will be there. The company I will have do it makes parts for nuclear power plants so tight tolerances are no problem.
find a pro who can do some CAD drawings of say a Known open comb head (simple).
Create a CNC program and a CNC shop can crank them out by the thousands.
(the above shops are starving for work right now)
they could be made out of almost any material you want (inc,TI)
Create a CNC program and a CNC shop can crank them out by the thousands.
(the above shops are starving for work right now)
they could be made out of almost any material you want (inc,TI)
Mmmmmm......Titanium handle with stainless head
It's already been done, and more than once...
If you have machine time available and the inclination, make one yourself. It's not very difficult for an experienced person.. Whether it's cost effective or not.. well, that can certainly be argued.
If you have machine time available and the inclination, make one yourself. It's not very difficult for an experienced person.. Whether it's cost effective or not.. well, that can certainly be argued.
If I could, I'd make a non-adjustable Fat Boy with a slightly longer handle (but still thick) and an open comb head. I think I absentmindedly doodled some designs of it a couple of weeks ago...
I wonder how well tantalum or niobium would work in a razor.
Or even tungsten for extra heft. I smell a niche business opportunity!!
I think defining the tolerances might be a bigger issue than actually achieving them. Not an expert here, but the head on a tech, the simplest razor, looks like a compound radius to me.
Machining stainless steel isn't the easiest but grinding it to the required finish is even harder. Especially if you're grinding a compound radius
I think that's probably why we see stampings more than machined heads, and also probably why the feather FS is so expensive
Careful on the tungsten. I did the math, and a simple Travel Tech would be about half a pound in WC.
This topic is not as easy as it seems. A CAD model is made easily. But you can't machine a piece of metal as easy as you form some pixels on your screen.
The drawings from Telecaster52 for example are not machinable.
I own 4 non adjustable 3-piece razors and no one of them has a 100% machined head. All of them are either mold or punched sheetmetal.
But now that you've put the idea into my head, I could try to make a machinable CAD model with the head of a Merkur 23C. Just for fun
The drawings from Telecaster52 for example are not machinable.
I own 4 non adjustable 3-piece razors and no one of them has a 100% machined head. All of them are either mold or punched sheetmetal.
But now that you've put the idea into my head, I could try to make a machinable CAD model with the head of a Merkur 23C. Just for fun
Am almost certain all the Modern day merkur heads are castings.
And with some modifications you can produce it on a CNC milling machine.
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