“Thereโ€™s no such thing as bad steel. Only lazy hands and weak fire.โ€

๐Ÿ”ช ๋ฌด๋”˜ ์นผ๋‚ ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ

์ฃผ๋ฐฉ์—์„œ ๋ฌด๋”˜ ์นผ๋งŒํผ ์“ธ๋ชจ์—†๊ณ  ์งœ์ฆ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋ฉด๋„๊ธฐ ์•ˆ์˜ ๋ฌด๋”˜ ์นผ๋‚  ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋‚˜๋งˆ ๋น„์Šทํ•  ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์˜ˆ์œ ํ•ธ๋“ค์„ ๋‹ฌ์•„๋‘” ๋ฉด๋„๋‚ ๋“ค์„ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธํ•ด๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์ฃ .
๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š”?
ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ํ˜•ํŽธ์—†์ด ์‹คํŒจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŒ€ ํœ˜์–ด์ง„ ๋‚ 

๋ฉด๋„์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑด โ€˜๊ฐ•์ฒ โ€™ ๊ทธ ์ž์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ ๋ฒจ(์ ˆ์‚ญ ๊ฐ๋„)์„ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์„ธ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ„ธ์€ ์ž˜๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚ ์ด ํœ˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ฒ ๋ฒจ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์ฃ .
์ด ์นผ๋‚ ์€ ์ •๋ง๋กœ ํœ˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ์ชฝ์€ ๋‘๊ป๊ณ , ์–‡๊ณ , ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‘๊บผ์šด ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์ชฝ์€ ๊ทธ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€.
๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ™•์—ฐํžˆ ๋ณด์ผ ์ •๋„์˜€์–ด์š”.

์„ ํƒ์ง€๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

์ƒˆ ์นผ๋‚ ๋กœ ๊ต์ฒด (์•ฝ 30๋ถ„ ์ •๋„ ๊ฐˆ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ์กฐ๋ฆฝ)

์นผ๋‚ ์„ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์žฌํ˜•์„ฑ (์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„ฑ๊ณต ๋ณด์žฅ ์—†์Œ)

์ €๋Š” ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹คํŒจํ•˜๋ฉด ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋‚ญ๋น„์ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋„์ „ํ•ด ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽจ ๋‹จ์ˆœ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋กœ
๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์‹คํŒจํ•œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ์ œ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์ˆ˜์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์„ฑ๊ณต ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋‚ ์„ ๊ฐˆ์•„๋ณธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ ๋งŽ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ˆซ๋Œ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์นผ๋‚ ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด์—ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ ค๋˜ ๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์ฃ .
๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ์ธ๋‚ด, ์„ฌ์„ธํ•œ ์†๊ธธ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

(์Šคํฌ์ผ๋Ÿฌ: ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!)

โš™๏ธ ์ž‘์—… ๊ณผ์ •

๋จผ์ € **์นผ๋‚ ์˜ ์ฒ™์ถ”(์ŠคํŒŒ์ธ)**๋ฅผ ์–‘์ชฝ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํ‰ํ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ๋ž˜์•ผ ๋‚ ์ด ์ˆซ๋Œ์— ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”.

๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์†๋ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ •๋„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•œ๋‘ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ฏค ์ง€๋‚˜์„œ์•ผ ๋‚  ์ „์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฟ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์€ ์•ˆ๋„๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์ด์ƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”์ •๋ง ์งœ๋ฆฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚œ ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์นผ๋‚  ๋ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์•ฝํ•ด ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ถ€์„œ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋งˆ ์˜ˆ์ „์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์ด ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ž˜๋ชป ์—ด์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋œ ํƒ“์ผ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ž˜๋ผ๋‚ด๊ณ , ํŠผํŠผํ•œ ๊ฐ•์ฒ ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊นŽ์•„์•ผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ ์ด ๊ณง๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€๋˜๋„๋ก ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ณค๋‘์„ธ์›Œ์•ผ ํ–ˆ์ฃ .

โœ… ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ

๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํƒ„์ƒํ•œ ๊ฑด ํŠน์ดํ•œ ๋ชจ์–‘์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฉด๋„๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋ฉ‹์ง€๊ณ  ๋‚ ์นด๋กœ์šฐ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž˜ ์ž‘๋™ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋„๋ฐ•์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ์ฃ .

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์›ƒ๊ธด ๊ฑด, ์นผ๋‚  ์ฒ™์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋‘๊บผ์›Œ์„œ ๋งˆ์น˜ โ€˜๋ธ”๋Ÿฌ๋“œ ์ฑ„๋„โ€™์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํ™ˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์Šค๋กญ(strop)์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ ์„ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฉด๋„๋ฅผ ํ•ด๋ดค๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ž˜ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋” ์ž์ฃผ ์“ฐ๋ฉด ๋‚ ์€ ๋” ์ข‹์•„์งˆ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๊ฑด ๋‹น๋‹นํžˆ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋กœ ์…€ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์ •๋ฐ€ํ•จ์ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ”๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์—๋„ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



๐ŸŒฑ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋“ค
์ •์› ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ

ํ‡ด๋น„ํ†ต ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ (๊ณง ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์˜ˆ์ •)

๋Œ€ํ˜• ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ž‘์—… ์ค‘

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„๊ธฐ๋ฐฉ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง๋„ ์žˆ์ฃ .
๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์•„์ง๋„ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด์„œ ํฌ์ŠคํŒ…์€ ๋ชป ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ •๋ง ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ˆ์š”.


๐ŸŽฏ ๋” ํฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ
์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์•ฝ 20๊ฐœ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์ค‘ 12๊ฐœ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋™์‹œ์— ARG(๋Œ€์ฒดํ˜„์‹ค๊ฒŒ์ž„) ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์Šคํฐ์„œ๋„ ๋ชจ์ง‘ ์ค‘์ด๊ณ ,
๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๋งต๊ณผ ํผ์ฆ ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋„ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ์ค€๋น„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

์ด์ œ ๋‚จ์€ ๊ฑด ํผ์ฆ์„ ์—ฎ๊ณ , ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์•„ํŠธ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์™„์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ด๊ฒŒ ์ „๋ถ€ ์ž˜ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ •๋ง ์ œ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ „๋ถ€ ์ด๋ฃฐ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”โ€”๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ํ˜„์‹ค์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•  ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ์ด ๊ธ€์„ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ถ™์—ฌ๋„ฃ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” HTML ๋ฒ„์ „์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”.
๋˜ํ•œ, ์ด ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•ด์„œ ์“ฐ์‹ค ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋ฉด ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ์šฉ ํ…œํ”Œ๋ฆฟ๋„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์›ํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?

The Problem with Dull Blades


There are few things more worthless and irritating than a dull knife in the kitchenโ€”except, perhaps, a dull blade in your shave kit. So I decided it was time to put some of my prettier razor handles to the test.

And one failed. Miserably.

The Crooked Blade

When it comes to shaving, steel is steel. If you can set the bevel correctly, itโ€™ll cut hair. But you canโ€™t set a bevel when your blade has a bad case of scoliosisโ€”which this one absolutely did.ย  (If you look closely at the edge you can see variations in depth.ย  On this side it is thick/thin/thick and it’s the opposite on the other side.)

That left me with two choices:

  • Replace the blade (which would have meant about half an hour of grinding and re-pinning),

  • Or reshape the blade entirelyโ€”a time-consuming option with no guaranteed success.

I chose the second. I knew the risk. I also knew how easy it would be to waste a lot of time for nothing.

From Functional Fix to Art Project

On top of the aforementioned, I donโ€™t count failed projects toward my overall goalโ€”and I wasnโ€™t sure if this would work at all. Iโ€™ve been sharpening blades for years, but reshaping one with sharpening stones alone? Thatโ€™s a much bigger challenge.

So, what began as a simple fix quickly became an art project. It demanded patience, finesse, and enough skill to (hopefully) come out with a usable blade.

(Spoiler: it worked.)

The Process

The first step was flattening the spine on both sides. Without that, the blade wouldnโ€™t make even contact with the stone. I did this for so long I actually lost feeling in my fingers. Time disappearedโ€”an hour, maybe twoโ€”before I finally saw that the edge was making full contact across its length.

That wasnโ€™t just a reliefโ€”it was thrilling.

But the blade had more issues. It was strangely brittle near the end, probably from being overworked or poorly ground at some point in its history. While I was sharpening it, a portion near the tip thinned to a flash and crumbled away. The steel was unstable. I had to grind off a portion of the blade until I reached stronger, reliable metal.

And throughout it all, I had to maintain a straight cutting edge. Otherwise, it wouldnโ€™t function.

The Result

What I ended up with was a uniquely shaped but fully functional razor. Itโ€™s sharp, attractive, andโ€”more importantlyโ€”it works. It was a gamble, but it paid off.ย  What’s really nuts is that due to the strange thickness of the spine I ended up with, what looks like, a blood channel.

I stropped it and I shaved with it. It performed fine. And itโ€™ll only improve as I continue to strop it.

This oneโ€™s definitely getting counted as a finished project. It demanded real work and precision, and Iโ€™m proud of how it turned out.


Other Projects on Deck

Iโ€™ve still got the garden project and the compost bin in progress. Iโ€™m hoping to have the bin done soon. The big table I mentioned before is also in the works.

And then thereโ€™s the baby room renovationโ€”which turned out great, but I still havenโ€™t written up or posted that one. I really should. Iโ€™m proud of it.


The Bigger Picture

Iโ€™m working as I can, and right now, I think Iโ€™m about 12 projects into the 20 I hope to complete. On top of that, Iโ€™ve started gathering sponsors for the ARG, and Iโ€™ve already got a loose map and a list of puzzles ready to go.

Whatโ€™s left is stringing it all together and creating some of the artwork. If I can pull this off, I might actually hit my goalโ€”which would be wild.ย  ย ย 

์ •๋ง๋กœ ์ด ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?!

์ €ํฌ ICG์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฝ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ์‹  ์Šคํ‹ฐ์ปค ์ถœ์‹œ, ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ (๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!), ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์—์„œ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋จผ์ € ์•Œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ €ํฌ ๋ฉ”์ผ๋ง ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ์— ๊ฐ€์ž…ํ•˜์„ธ์š”!

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ŠคํŒธ์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ท€ํ•˜์˜ ํ”„๋ผ์ด๋ฒ„์‹œ๋ฅผ ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ณ , ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ธŒ๋กœ์ปค์™€๋Š” ์˜ค์ง ์น˜์—ดํ•œ ์ „ํˆฌ์—์„œ๋งŒ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ต๊ธ€ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ

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