OK, I've made a point of missing the previous underbelly series, but how can we resist this
UNDERBELLY RAZOR
Let's see how many different razors we can identify.
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OK, I've made a point of missing the previous underbelly series, but how can we resist this
UNDERBELLY RAZOR
Let's see how many different razors we can identify.
Yeah, lets see the going price of straights go up on ebay too.
My kids were watching seven Brides for Seven Brothers the other day and I noticed one of the characters shaving with a very nice, and large, straight with a Barber's Notch. Might have beena big wedge as far as I could tell.
I'm almost on topic.
i must be old and grumpy as you guys seem overly optimistic. Reckon underbelly will be a whole lot of bad publicity that the anti-everything mob will use to try and ban straight razors and make more of us criminals in the eyes of uneducated joe public, just as they did with knives.
Aw - don't mind me, maybe i just need another coffee...... or maybe to accept life may need to be lived as an outlaw. :)
We all know that Underbelly is to historical accuracy as what Colonel Sanders is to chickens, so by my reckoning the only razor we are safe to bet on not showing up is a Bengall ...
The Promo photos have Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine holding this weird conglomeration with an 1820's blade shape, Swedish style thumbnotch and bakelite handles.
A mate of mine is a walloper and we discussed something similar a few weeks back.
In WWII the Commandos actively recruited members of the Glasgow and Sydney razor gangs into their ranks on the assumption that they were hard men. When these guys were confronted with instructors who would fight back and the other recruits were genuine hard men who had been on the two way rifle range they all turned to water.
When you look at a cut throat it really is the last blade you would pull out to fight with. Paper thin blade that is really fragile, no stabbing point. On the other hand it is a good tool for torturing people who won't fight back.
The idea that the razor gangs actually fought with razors is a myth.
Actually I went to the Femme Fatales exhibition put together by the justice and police museum in Sydney (I saw it at the National Archives in Canberra.) They had several razors used by the razor gangs on display. And yes, most of the ones they had there were Bengalls.
I don't think much fighting was done with the razors, but lots of disfigurement and throat cutting apparently went on.
Bad things happen when governments ban alcohol & prostitution.
Tilly Devine & the Razor Gang Wars, 1927-31
You mean ... more alcohol and prostitution, plus more violence?
Happens every time.
This is true but as a tool for intimidation & extortion it excelled the handgun.
Also in 1927 a law was passed that anyone found with an unlicensed handgun received an automatic prison sentence. It didn't stop shootings but the razor became the EDC rather than a pistol.
In my wayward youth i knew an Englishman who in his wayward youth knew a few "razor gang" people. The scariest ones did not actually use razors, but steel hair combs with the teeth sharpened. This caused a nasty ripping wound that could not be neatly stitched and left horrific scarring.
Somehow they seem to have missed banning combs..........
I'm sure they'd ban spoons if there was some whinging minority that was terrified of them.
Mick,
Give me two hours with an angle grinder and my stones on that beastie ...
It'd be a bit tough on the old scalp, though.
I'll still need two. I'm worried about keeping my J-stones in good nick. Although if you were to lend me yours I'd do it in one ;)
Keep making those sorts of suggestions and I'll land them in the back of ya head ya bugger! :p
Mick
:w :roflmao
never forget The Blue Rajah and what he could do with a fork!!
August 21 Fellers.
Promo:
Video: EXCLUSIVE: Underbelly Razor promo
The only razor I got a half decent look at seemed to be a frameback, and I can't recall seeing any of them locally.
Good news:
Criminal beauty in eye of the beholder for Underbelly Razor | News.com.au
They used glammed up chicks for the lead roles, not hard faced harridans that would be historically accurate.
:beer1:
Hard faced? I've seen pictures of some of those women. You could crack brasil nuts on their faces and not leave a mark! "Hard faced" is something of an understatement.
I don't yet have anything to add.to this, so I'm gonna bookmark this thread so I can research these razor gangs tomorrow while the chilrens are napping. :)
Don't forget it starts on Sunday night
Anybody know if I can watch this in the States via computer?
I'm very surprised you guys reckon you will spot any razors. From what I have seen of other series in this franchise, you'll be too distracted by the numerous and gratuitous shots of parts of the female anatomy! Or perhaps that's just me....
James.
Most Australian TV is available to watch via the web.
Try this site from 21 August:
Starts August 21st
PS this will definitely be NSFW and not safe around small children or prudish adults.
9 out of 10 gangsters prefers heavy wedges over full hollows.
Yeah, but we're talking about a series based on a factual bit of Australian history Blix (not saying the series has any facts in it). Aussie gangsters may not have had as much access to heavy wedges as other parts of the world, but I could be very wrong on that point. I would assume most of the razors here would have been hollow ground. :)
Mick