My first razor
Doesn't look like much but it's my first straight razor and I did it in only a couple hours from start while I worked on other projects. Sure there's a little more cleanup to do but I started with a small rectangle of leaf spring I didn't even think I could make something from.
As somewhat of an enthusiast and having attempted straight razors in the past, I just want to stress a few important parts of what makes a straight razor shave. First off, the geometry is paramount. When you lay the blade on a flat stone, it should lay flat. There are essentially 2 points (or perhaps more appropriately, lines) of contact: the spine and the edge. Those 2 points of contact make up your bevel and are a function of the thickness of your spine and the height of your razor. Assuming y