Thread: Lol, how do we think this happened?

Saw this surfing the bay
Look at this on eBay "Gladstone" Straight Razor Fancy Scales | eBay

Are you referring to the oxidized vulcanite material imbedded in the carving, the wonky hone wear or the unusual tang to blade transition, or the reverse curve on the tail. It has some very odd stuff going on. There is so much crud on it it is hard to tell is this was broken and then "fixed" or what. It is a little expensive to buy just to see it in hand to see what is going on. An oddity for sure.

I've never seen a reverse tail like that, very strange!

Is it just me or does it looks like the whole tang was attached somehow later on? It really does not fit the razor.

I... what the.... !?!?!

My theory, as presented by my outside the box thinking & eye for detail: in a nutshell, somebody used a "tongue & groove" technique to cobble together what they thought would pass as a whole razor from several broken razors!

Furthermore, I'd go so far as to say they Franken-tang might actually be two separate tangs (maybe duplicates of the same model) that were laminated (generous wording...) together, over the stump of tang original to the blade section. Look closely at the following pictures...

Notice where the tang should transition to the blade?


Would this be "slap-dash"? Or "slapped together"?


At least the seller doesn't appear to be trying to pull a fast one.

When I see divergent edge and spine profiles like that I think "this is not a razor for using, this is a razor for laying down and avoiding".

But of course, as always, YMMV.

I saw something like that once before. I notified the seller that the tang appeared to have broken off and was rewelded upside down. That is why it is so thick. If I am wrong and the razor was originally made that way then it should be quite valuable.

Forged by someone with dyslexia ? ..........

I think it's the razor version of the astronaut pen!

What sort of makes some sense is that the razor started life as a covered tang razor. Then it broke. After that someone tried to fix it, but as we can see it was a swing and a miss.