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Old 07-07-2013, 07:48 PM
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Well I got both of them HTed this after noon (both O1), I have two that I'm doing at a time a 5/8 and a 6/8. The 5/8 is going to be the test piece I'm going to have my resident professional straight razor user test out. The 6/8 is intended to be the customers, which I don't have the handle material for yet (it's coming with the hones that I ordered).

Here is the 5/8 it's only been ground up to 100g (long way to go), and the scales are far from finished as you can see, they are Honey Ox horn.

So far the biggest challenge has been the grind, I'm using a 5" wheel and am not used to getting such a deep grind and having that very tall very thin edge. That and making sure everything is very straight, where on a normal blade it wouldn't be a massive deal, I think its a good idea to keep everything as flat, straight, and perpendicular as possible since this edge is going to be by a jugular.

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