Here are some pics from my third Damascus Mini-razor. The blade is a 7/8 hollow ground with an edge from 4,5 cm. The monkey-tail is 6 cm long. The steel is 1.2842 (dark) and 75Ni8 (light) hardened to approx. 60 HRC. The handle is from ebony and the wedge from rough grinded aluminum.
Buddel damascus Mini-razor
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Wow! That's an amazing looking razor.
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Gorgeous - I've always been a sucker for Damascus blades.
I love it! What fabulous lines!!
Yowza! that is a great looking razor!
may i request a photo of the razor in your hand for a size perspective?
may i request a photo of the razor in your hand for a size perspective?
That razor looks awesome!!! Great work!!
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I will make a photo tonight. But here are a photo that I already have:
Why the short blade.
Nice work, by the way!
Nice work, by the way!
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At my first blacksmith lesson we also made damascus steel for a razor. Unfortunately the damascus piece was too short for two real razors.
I made this lesson together with a friend. And we both want a Damascus razor. So I decided to make two short ones. After that I realized, that this little shavers have a very cool optic and they are shaving not worthier, than a normal size razor. The big advantage is, they are more maneuverable than the big ones and more easy to control than the Japanese style razors.
I made this lesson together with a friend. And we both want a Damascus razor. So I decided to make two short ones. After that I realized, that this little shavers have a very cool optic and they are shaving not worthier, than a normal size razor. The big advantage is, they are more maneuverable than the big ones and more easy to control than the Japanese style razors.
At my first blacksmith lesson we also made damascus steel for a razor. Unfortunately the damascus piece was too short for two real razors.
I made this lesson together with a friend. And we both want a Damascus razor. So I decided to make two short ones. After that I realized, that this little shavers have a very cool optic and they are shaving not worthier, than a normal size razor. The big advantage is, they are more maneuverable than the big ones and more easy to control than the Japanese style razors.
Outstanding!
Very cool picture of the blank in its raw form!
I can imagine trying to use that piece finished, just like a spokeshave or a drawknife. Looks good.
This looks pretty cool to me. I'm actually kind of surprised that there's not more of a 'mini-razor' market. Then again, I've not really been looking around all that much, so perhaps I'm missing something.
Very nice work!
Cool! 
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Very nice blade.
I hold some contempt for damascus blades... they're often layered steel, mostly pretty, nothing useful. We don't actually know how damascus is made (lost art in 1700s); however, some professors in the 90s finally took chemical samples of a real Damascus artifact and reproduced a new material sample, then forged and heat-treated it in such a way that they came out with a material with all the same properties (hardness, visual appearance, etc). It's rather complex... most notably, the first heat treating erases the patterning, while a cooler heat treating causes the carbon compounds responsible to reappear in the exact places they were before.
At any rate, it's too bad I'm no blacksmith. I'd obtain some exotic metals (1.5% high carbon steel, tungsten, vanadium, some things I don't actually know what they are but could research) and try to reproduce the methods these professors came up with. Could you imagine a brand new true damascus blade?
I hold some contempt for damascus blades... they're often layered steel, mostly pretty, nothing useful. We don't actually know how damascus is made (lost art in 1700s); however, some professors in the 90s finally took chemical samples of a real Damascus artifact and reproduced a new material sample, then forged and heat-treated it in such a way that they came out with a material with all the same properties (hardness, visual appearance, etc). It's rather complex... most notably, the first heat treating erases the patterning, while a cooler heat treating causes the carbon compounds responsible to reappear in the exact places they were before.
At any rate, it's too bad I'm no blacksmith. I'd obtain some exotic metals (1.5% high carbon steel, tungsten, vanadium, some things I don't actually know what they are but could research) and try to reproduce the methods these professors came up with. Could you imagine a brand new true damascus blade?
