Let me start this by saying that I LOVE hamons on anything, knives, sword, razors or whatever. I have made a few knives that have had nice hamons on them and I love how each one is different in their own way.
So I was reading the other thread that was posted a few days ago on a Japanese razor wondering if it would have a hamon if it was polished. And this got me thinking, shouldn't most if not all razors have some sort of hamon on them? Especially the high hollow ground ones.
Yes most hamons are created using some sort of insulator on the spine during heat treat and quenching. Be it clay, satinite, refractory cement or what ever. But you can also create a natural occurring hamon with a thick spine and a thin edge on high carbon steel. The spine would cool at a slower rate than the edge thus creating the temper line.
I got a 8/8 full hollow Herder in the mail today that had scratches in it that my buffer wouldn't take out unless I wanted to spend days buffing it. So I got the wet dry sandpaper out and went to town. Strayed at 220 to get the scratches out and moved on and at about 400 I started to notice up near the spine there was a slight change in the steel when looked at in the light. Yep a nice hamon. Not a straight line but a "cloudy" one. I got excited and progressed up to 1500 grit pretty quickly just to see what it would look like fully polished.
Here's the best pic I could get of it. They are hard as hell to photograph unless it is a very high grit polish or etched in some way. I'll try and get around to etching it tomorrow night so it will show up better. But I need to go back down to 400 grit to remove some scratches some this one isn't going on the buffer now. It won't be the prettiest, there some deep rust one the toe
Has anyone else ever noticed one on their razors?
Any sort of buffing or polishing paste will erase them pretty quickly so unless you are looking for it, you might miss it.
So I was reading the other thread that was posted a few days ago on a Japanese razor wondering if it would have a hamon if it was polished. And this got me thinking, shouldn't most if not all razors have some sort of hamon on them? Especially the high hollow ground ones.
Yes most hamons are created using some sort of insulator on the spine during heat treat and quenching. Be it clay, satinite, refractory cement or what ever. But you can also create a natural occurring hamon with a thick spine and a thin edge on high carbon steel. The spine would cool at a slower rate than the edge thus creating the temper line.
I got a 8/8 full hollow Herder in the mail today that had scratches in it that my buffer wouldn't take out unless I wanted to spend days buffing it. So I got the wet dry sandpaper out and went to town. Strayed at 220 to get the scratches out and moved on and at about 400 I started to notice up near the spine there was a slight change in the steel when looked at in the light. Yep a nice hamon. Not a straight line but a "cloudy" one. I got excited and progressed up to 1500 grit pretty quickly just to see what it would look like fully polished.
Here's the best pic I could get of it. They are hard as hell to photograph unless it is a very high grit polish or etched in some way. I'll try and get around to etching it tomorrow night so it will show up better. But I need to go back down to 400 grit to remove some scratches some this one isn't going on the buffer now. It won't be the prettiest, there some deep rust one the toe
Has anyone else ever noticed one on their razors?
Any sort of buffing or polishing paste will erase them pretty quickly so unless you are looking for it, you might miss it.
