Thread: Svenskt stål/Swedish steel

I can happily add another Eskeltuna blade to my rotation. This E A Berg frame back delivered an outstanding shave this evening. It's from the late 19th century and who knows how long it was sitting around with a shaving sharp edge on it just waiting to cut my beard. Love it!

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My three Swedes, Erik Anton Berg, Klas Törnblom and a J.A.Hellberg wedge with a smile resto up front.



Nightbreed.

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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. - From The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Love those Swedes... and the woman too

C.V. Heljestrand Eskilstuna

Very nice Max!! Love them Swedes too. They never liked me though. I think I look too much like their brothers, with the fair skin and blonde hair. They're all looking for darker men. I do better in Southern countries.

C.W.Dahlgren Frameback in Ivory with a special tang/monkeytail.

Oooooooooooooooooooo

C.V.Heljestrand No.29

Atop some TGQ soaps none-the-less. That's some good shavin' on the way.

Another frameback from Engstrom. This little fella is almost scary sharp, a very good shaver. I have to clean it a bit better.

A question: I can remove the frame quite easily. Is that by design?

Look what I found for about $15: a C.V. Heljestrand No.30.



The pictures show it as bought; I only used a used a damp cloth to remove finger prints and a bit of dust. It's in a very nice condition with just some minor marks of previously buffed out rust spots (some old residual buffing compound can be seen round the pins and in the tang thumb hollow). The very thin scales have P Sjöberg lightly engraved in old italic handwriting. I can't say what material they are (the razor looks very much like nightbreed's - what material are yours?).

What really intrigues me is that the ESK LSTUNA tang stamp lacks the i. It doesn't seem to be polished out: there is no damage at that spot and the neighbouring letters are still quite deep.


Anyway: I can't wait to hone it and shave!