I watch a lot of steel forging and blade making videos. This one came up in me feed today where he takes a bunch of Treet Carbon DE blades and forge welds them into a steel bar and forges it into a straight razor -- or is it a $3000 knife?!?
guy forges a straight razor from 100's of double edge blades
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A knife with a useless handle or an RSO with a useless blade. At least he taped the spine while putting the edge on. Awful pretty and a really cool concept. It will be worth exactly what some one will pay for it. Creative guy!
10 seconds into that project I'd be bleeding all over the place lol
shurap - https://www.youtube.com/@shurap
does really good work on pattern forged knives. he hasn't done a razor to my knowledge, but he's worth a watch.
does really good work on pattern forged knives. he hasn't done a razor to my knowledge, but he's worth a watch.
Yum, yum, a layered steel edge! Makes my face burn already. Notice he mixed powered steel into the blades, hard to believe it will hone the same between the two materials.
Nice decorator piece, very likely useless as a razor.
He tempered it by color with a hand torch, which is not how you temper steel that thick. Core is likely RC 67 or so in the carbon steel, who knows what in the stuff he added.
Actual razors have been made by drop forging for a very very long time. White hot metal stuck in a form and hit once with a big drop hammer, tempered, and finish ground.
Nice decorator piece, very likely useless as a razor.
He tempered it by color with a hand torch, which is not how you temper steel that thick. Core is likely RC 67 or so in the carbon steel, who knows what in the stuff he added.
Actual razors have been made by drop forging for a very very long time. White hot metal stuck in a form and hit once with a big drop hammer, tempered, and finish ground.
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Too much canister still left in the steel for my tastes.
just watched it. it's a pretty, razor shaped knife. and he had enough material to do a solid knife, maybe a short sword.
I have a sorta local to me knife maker/blacksmith who said he competed on Forged in fire. showed me a razor he made and dimensionally it was pretty close but bevel angle seemed shallow. I was new to straights and told him as much as I could to start to look at "right" if he wanted to. it was maybe a 5/8 half hollow with too thin a spine for it was my guess. I was impressed by how thin a good, symmetrical grind he achieved.
I have a sorta local to me knife maker/blacksmith who said he competed on Forged in fire. showed me a razor he made and dimensionally it was pretty close but bevel angle seemed shallow. I was new to straights and told him as much as I could to start to look at "right" if he wanted to. it was maybe a 5/8 half hollow with too thin a spine for it was my guess. I was impressed by how thin a good, symmetrical grind he achieved.
