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Damascus Straight Razor #5843560 07/22/15 11:07 PM
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Here's a little straight razor blade I did just for grins . It's made from my own Twist Damascus in 1084 & 15n20. It's 6 3/4" long with a 3" cutting edge, is 1/8" thick, has jimping on top & bottom of handle and is hollow ground to a zero edge without any secondary bevel. There's a science to designing and grinding razors and I don't know any of it so this probably has some design errors, but I enjoyed messin' with it.

Thanks for looking.



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Well if nothing else atleast it looks awesome

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I really like that!
I like the coarseness of the damascus. Are you going to sell it?

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Thanks guys.

Dink, send me PM if you're interested.

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It looks great David, what's your plan for the handle?

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Very cool piece David. up


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Re: Damascus Straight Razor [Re: D.Crawford] #5844403 07/23/15 03:31 PM
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Bad bad Leroy Brown. he may have liked his diamonds, Lincolns, and drop top Caddy but he never had a razor this nice. This looks like a couple of sheets of Kirinite would make and elegant/simple and traditional looking handle.

Kudos on your use of time and metal....
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Very nicely done.

Re: Damascus Straight Razor [Re: D.Crawford] #5845304 07/24/15 01:08 AM
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Thanks gents. Not sure what I'll do about the handle but will post a pic if I figure it out.

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Very unique and great looking knife sir. up

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I personally think some sort of white handle would look very nice with the blade.

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good job......I also think some type of a white or pearl handle would work

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I think that antique white micarta would be perfect, it looks like aged ivory, it would be the way to go.

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another vote for white/ivory handles.

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Thanks for the input guys. I agree that antique white or ivory would've been a stellar choice but I just didn't have anything close to it on hand. In an effort to get this project completed I went ahead and used imitation Zebra horn (aka black paper micarta) and textured it with my Dremel. We'll do a nice antique handle on the next one.

Hope you like it.



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Looks great

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It looks good, my second choice would have been black, hopefully you'll be able to find and put away a set of antique scales before you try again. It appears from searching around a bit, the antique and ivory white micarta is scarce, due to demand from scrimshaw artists.


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That looks great David!
I've seen several zebras but none of them had horns...
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Originally Posted By: Dink Dodger
That looks great David!
I've seen several zebras but none of them had horns...
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I noticed that but figured since it was an imitation it was a mutation from the West Texas jackalope... Which of course was a offspring of the famous Unicorn but everyone knows that true story.


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Just makin' sure you guys are payin' attention smile

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Ya done good!

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Just incase anyone is curious

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Nice work, David!

Nice addition to your collection, Mike!

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Well played on the Zebra horn(Lol) David. That looks good. up


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Excellent work, love it!

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