How To Make A Carving Knife From A Straight Razor

This refers to the fact that you are simply removing metal and not performing any heat-treatment of any kind hopefully.

How to make a carving knife from a straight razor. Using the Smooth Side to Polish a Straight Razor. Hollow Grind or Concave Grind. Smokey Joe showed me the basics how to use a pattern how to cut out a blank on a band saw and how to use and sharpen a carving knife which he made from a straight razor.

The knives and blades come with a twelve-page booklet on use and sharpening. Basically a hollow grind is made by a wheel to hollow above the edge. And drawing the blade shape on the straight razor i think its just plain old wasteful that there is enough razor to make 2 knives out of one straight razor but the second one wouldnt have a tang.

An example would be G picture of a crown R This Monarch indicated this was King George llls razor. Your tools last because I dont sharpen fast. I use a coping saw and hand tools to make the scales.

1830-1880 Up to this point Straight Razors were mainly made from Cast Steel. Typically straight razors are stropped with the smooth-. Knives made from straight razors I have made 2 knives out of a straight razor a couple of times didnt break it tho I used my abrasive cutoff saw and like Berg said kept putting water on it takes awhile just a second on the blade and wet it down otherwise would get to hot.

When making a second knife im just at the mapping stage of the blade. Simply change the handle on the straight razor after to turn in into a carving knife. A personcould find full-size mallet tools but little else.

After 3 hours of use still sharp. We sell a variety of items for edge maintenance in the Sharpening section. I used that knife and a box of patterns and began to carve as much as I couldIn those early days there were very few carving tools on the market.