Forging a Kamisori - Japanese Straight Razor 

WOW Tim! That razor is ridiculously beautiful! Another masterpiece from a true artisan.

there's always the haters who don't appreciate anything people do that is creative. I liked the music - went to the website and listened to more. It is great to see a real craftsman at work making something that not many people can. thanks mate.

I would have loved to have seen the whole forging, the grind, the sanding, and even more of the wrap. I feel like it was like hammer, hammer, blades done, look at this leather.... it is an absolutely gorgeous piece, you should be proud! It looks beautiful

to each their own. i respect that. i really dug the music, and appreciated both it and the artistry of the of person who forged this. thanks for sharing

Winter forging! You're a braver man than me. Nice work Tim!

Loved the video and the music

今日本でも作る職人がいなくなっていますが、こうして外国の方につくっていただくのはとてもうれしいです。是非これからも頑張って下さい！

You skipped the most interesting part. The sharpening and polishing.

the music tho..makes me wanna lay back and plan on making my own knife.,excellent skill sir!

Great music plus etched iron. More, please.

Wonderful to see the old material and new forged into such a beautiful piece. Thanks Tim, I really enjoyed watching this.

That is really awesome. Seems so relaxing to me to watch a master craftsman such as yourself work a piece of steel.

Hey Tim keep on keeping on. That razor turned out beautiful I think the blade forum will eat it up.

Sir, what an absolute joy to watch :) I now feel like a part of me is missing having not seen so many off your vids! That will change from now on.

A master at work. Bravo.

Well done. Thank you for making the video.

Great video Tim! Its always a pleasure to see what you come up with in the knife shop!

Great walk through Tim! Love to watch you work.

Awesome video! A friend of mine just made a razor and it made me want to make one. After watching last 2 of your videos I am going to give it a try. Thanks for the cool videos

man the music kills the video. Love the blade

Very Very nice, the dark red stingray skin and the leather wrap looks perfect and I really like the shape. In my opinion even better than a normal razor. Love your work, Keep hammering!!

great vid the red sting ray whit the black looks verry good

It looks so SO so beautiful

Real pleasure to watch , no half naked smashing about like half of you tube , i have some wrought iron i think im going to try that interesting that you didn't sandwich the blade steel , thanks for sharing .

Very nice video mate, thanks for sharing.

Very nice, job well done, music was nice too.

music was awesome, Razor was nice too

That's a beautiful razor, and the furnace looks great in the snow :-)

That is amazing and beautiful looking straight razor Tim! Love the start to finish of making of this razor!

That's really nice, I like how that old wrought iron almost has a Damascus look to it. I think you just sold me on one of those Milwaukee metal cutting bandsaws.

excellent video.Wonderful work

Really enjoyed this Tim, thanks for sharing

Your talent never fails to amaze me my friend!

Very cool process and end result, compounded by a fantastic audio track :)

Elegant blade. I like the shape. I bet it would be easy to control.

Very beautiful work. Quite like the handle wrap too. :-)

Awesome blade. Bet it will give a nice close shave too ..... well done Sir.

awesome Kamisori

Awesome work . Just finished a folding strait razor but it didn't look as cool as this one

how bout showing the shave test

great vid Tim. love the razor, simple and elegant :)

I shaved with one of these and I tend to use kamisori more than straight razors. Heck I may sell all my SRs and stick to kamisoris.

Very nice. I enjoy my Kamisori greatly but I am always fearful that the point will get me the moment I stop respecting it. I love the stingray skin on yours, that must be magic even when wet. You make it look so easy to make it. sigh. :)

Been looking to buy one of these but they are not cheap! Maybe ill have to get back out to the old forge and work on my skills again and do this myself

do people here like metal?,this is good music

Beautiful work as always, Tim. Kamisori are fun to make. I think I'd make more if I was the type to, well... shave. :)

Very nice blade I would love to make one day.

great video! Your wrought iron worked better than the stuff i got, mine kept cracking. Must have gotten some low quality wrought.

Awesome razor in vid my friend can't wait to see what you make next!:)

So nice and beautiful, I love it! :)

Very nice!

Nice work bro. I would like to see her inverted sister? Yin yang blade geometry and leather wrapping? That would be a very sharp set.

Very nice.

omg i thought that sounded like olds sleeper!!

that is an AWESOME kamisori... when will you have another one for sale and for how much... Thank You and excellent work

great job, just what I was looking for, laminated Kamisori, how does it shave?

I was hoping you'd shave with it to demonstrate the sharpness nevertheless that's some damn fine work and finish on that blade is awesome.

Awesome!!

What was that song. Slightly off and out of tune, but haunting, like there is something in life I forgot, or something I should know that I am unaware of. Nice knife.

Really nicely done!!! At first I thought the handle would be to wide to hold properly, but I like the way you built it up with Ray skin. The one thing I did notice is that you made a left handers Kamisori, was that on purpose, because I notice you swing the hammer with your right hand?

That's so cool! When it's winter, do you heat up your anvil any before you start forging? Beautiful anvil by the way.

incredible work, Tim. I actually discovered the kamisori through this vid, thought yours was perfect, went online to find a similar and found no equal. i'd love to own one of your crafts one day. do you sell them or take commissions by any chance? have a great summer

Man that came out great. I think I might try my hand at forging out a small knife like that as my first attempt. Did you weld the wrought iron to the blue steel? Btw, really enjoyed the song too!

fucking beautiful my friend! Work of art.

Superb

Looks fabulous! I'm curious though, I've seen Japanese style blades created with a core of iron sandwiched between blue steel, but never with just one side done as you seemed to here. Is there a particular reason for this?

Absolutely stunning video man. I think it is the only one like it on RU-vid at this level. It was nice to see the blade at all angle and the processes you used in depth. The only thing I've been trying figure out (I've been looking online and can't find any real answer) is how you shave with it? Like a traditional straight razor has a symmetrical grind so you can use both sides equally well, but the grind you put on this Wa-Kamisori didn't have an equal grind. Do you only use one side of the blade? And is the only traditional grind for a wa-kamisori?

awesome

Looks beautiful, but that part of the blade in the end that is the shiniest than the rest of the blade is either iron or low carbon steel that makes this razor u usable for shaving because you won’t be able to sharpen it and have it stay sharp (it’s soft steel or iron) like you need to (like you would hard steel with more carbon in it)

Very nice

Great

Hello, I saw you 1:37 hamer those two kinds of steel. I wonder if you fold them together like making Damascus blade. I saw Inoue Tosuke's razor has soft on the spine part while the Hard on the rest part and you can tell from the wavy line between them. I don't get why you hamer them together. Has it hard on one side of the blade and the other side soft. Is this result actually you want? Thanks.

you got some good skills to make a Japanese shaver!! do you forge with in only with blue steel or do you use both white and blue Japanese steel? I would like to get one of your shavers! I like white steel better but if you only have blue then I'll take that! please let me know when you do have one for sale, Iwould love to get a hold of one (white steel!! ha, ha) Great work on your forging and good music TOO!!! Thanks

We need some more SugarCreek Forge vids! 😁 Miss seeing ya over here on YT, brother. I hope you've been well :)

Beautiful work! Did you seal the leather using Cyanoacrylate?

That's lovely. I didn't see you put any flux on that forge weld though. Did you really do it without?

スゴイ！ カッコいい！

wow, that is a sweet little gem! These are always my favorite types of vids; forging, grinding, easy listening music, you nailed it man! I like how your conserving that precious carbon steel just as the Japanese do ;) Is that the stuff from Aldo by any chance? Sure looks like you got a wide piece of it. I can't wait to be able to forge again, we recently had some crazy wind storms that blew over my HF 10'X10' canopy I had over my forge area, so I'm gonna get another soon, but it lasted about three years so it was $60 well spent :D I would like to request a shop tour man, it's always a tease seeing one tool here and there lol Anyway I'm glad to see you back at the forge, thanks for sharing this lil beauty with us Tim! I hope to soon share (or rather give you) a couple beauties of my own in the near(er) future :) ... :-/ Good ta see ya and Grace be with you and your loved ones brother Tim! ~Paul

COULD you describe the process whit subnotes on your videos?, MANY THANKS. BLESS

nicely done ... would prefer if u were explaining what u were doing by nrrating. Also the sound of you making it but solid stuff still

Great build! Does it work well? Where does a person buy blue steel from?

You lay the blue steel on the wrought iron and hammer forge it? So does that mean one side of the blade is blue steel and the other wrought iron? Does that make it a one handed razor? Just curious. And does it work?

Great vid. But drop the music next time :) The sounds of workshop are much more interesting to hear

Whhhh-oooa... that rusty old piece of iron turned into that?

That was really cool, thanks for posting it. I was expecting a shaving demo at the end, ha ha! :-) Btw, what did you etch the razor with?

Why did you grind off so much of the hard steel? The end result looks like it has some of the iron in the edge...

hey, thanks for sharing this with us! I had a question, though. It appears you forge welded tool steel to the wrought iron. But it appears that when finished the left side of the blade was tool steel and the right side of the blade was wrought iron. In other words, it did not seem like you put the tool steel at the cutting edge leaving the spine wrought iron. Can you please comment? Thanks!

Hey great work! do you sell them?also who was the background music,, I loved it and want to add toone of my playlists.

What happened if you use snow instead of water. I heard that drinking snow leads to dehydration.

Where did you get that piece of wrought iron? I thought that it would be easier to come by/buy, but I can't find any

I would love to get into blacksmithing i already built my forge just a little bit more and i can start. Anyway any tips on a beginner

i like brutal metal, but i kinda enjoyed the soundtrack

Where can I download this song? Give a shout out to the band!

don't the Japanese make their blades with that folding technique? or is that only with their katanas and shortswords?

Oh, red stingray skin, of course.

I'm curious to how the steel stayed so hot on an anvil outside in the snow. Did you heat your anvil?

how did you get your hands on some blue steel stuffs impossible to find

What did you etch with

Would a36 work as a substitute for wrought iron?

What did you dip it in to get that gray patina? It looks beautiful!!