Andrew Meers Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 (edited) This is my first Straight razor and some other things Edited September 19, 2011 by Andrew Meers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Cooper Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 nice work meers. id be interested in seeing the case from the side. hope things are good out your way. -p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Cooper Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 wow... interesting tanto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Thomas Obach Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 nice work... razor is Niiiiice North Shore Forge & Ironworks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Helm Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 I love these. James Helm - Helm Enterprises, Forging Division Come see me at the Blade Show! Table 26R. Proud to be a Neo-Tribal Metalsmith scavenging the wreckage of civilization. My blog dedicated to the metalwork I make and sell: http://helmforge.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEzell Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Lovely work, I am most impressed with the handle carving. Very nice. Welcome to the forum! George Ezell, bladesmith" How much useful knowledge is lost by the scattered forms in which it is ushered to the world! How many solitary students spend half their lives in making discoveries which had been perfected a century before their time, for want of a condensed exhibition of what is known."Buffonview some of my work RelicForge on facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff S Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Very nice! Lots of J.D. Smith in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Hey Andrew, nice to see you here. Glad we got to meet at Ashokan and I enjoyed seeing your work there. The razor is very well done. Looks sharp enough to shave Jim My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFogg Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Check this out by Andrew Don Fogg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Meers Posted September 22, 2011 Author Share Posted September 22, 2011 Thanks everyone, Paul things are well here almost done with school. Jim I'm glad to have met as well, hopefully we'll see each other soon. Don thanks for the photos it was good to see you again, Daryl gives his regards. Geoff I was a student of JD Smiths, right before the class was offered at Massart I missed it by one year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caotropheus Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Andrew, Could you please show and tell us more details of the razor, for example pictures from the top and from the bottom, what is the scales material and how did you attach those rivets? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howie Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 That's a nice looking Katar Andrew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Meers Posted September 23, 2011 Author Share Posted September 23, 2011 I don't have any more pictures of the razor unfortunately however, the scales are African blackwood, the liners are stainless, and the rivets are fine silver tube rivets with the head on the backside of the scale then peridot set into them. The pivot is a fine silver tube rivet with a sterling rivet through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.Abrera Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Very nice work on your razor. ...and the katar is stunning too. Want to start a thread on that? Id love to hear about how uou tackled the construction method/forging steps. Especially the junction of the handle "arms" and the blade. Bravo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Sexstone Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Andrew, Was nice to meet you .. I'm sorry our chat was ended by lunch.... Good to see you here... welcome Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Meers Posted September 27, 2011 Author Share Posted September 27, 2011 Very nice work on your razor. ...and the katar is stunning too. Want to start a thread on that? Id love to hear about how uou tackled the construction method/forging steps. Especially the junction of the handle "arms" and the blade. Bravo! Sorry, I lost my camera and all the process shots. The pattern is two opposing twisted 10 layer billets in the middle forged to 1/4 inch the next bars are two billets composed of 9 bar. The center bar in the 9 bar is a Gordian knot with three radials and straight layers mixed with w's the outside eight bars are opposing straight radials and w's radials these are then laddered like a chevron. The chevrons are on the outside of the previously mentioned twists. Outside these are radials with straight layers opposing twisted. Then the 9 bar with the radials was twisted opposing ways and attached to the outside of that. Two more bars of w1 were then added to the outside of that The bars were welded together open, then the back end was cut like a fish mouth closed around and forged flat so the end was not a point but a squarish end. I made a press tool that mimics the end of the billet so the pattern was pushed and swelled into the shape at the end of the blade. Then I band sawed the through the w1 parallel with the blade. then the handles were pulled back and the tip was cut and welded and shaped under the press. I tig welded the "handle in. I met Rick Furrer at Hank Knickmeyers in 09 and he told me how they did it traditionally in India and so I tried it using modern tooling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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