Thread: Svenskt stål/Swedish steel

I finally got my Heljestrand and I must say.. It has the strangest etching I have ever seen. If you look at it from one angle it looks like it has no etching. If you look from another angle it looks like it has a barely visible etching. Almost like someone has polished it off with maas or something. But as you turn it and look at it from yet another angle you can see a clear ecthing.. dark black.. a city silhouette. You can see the etching very cleary when you have the razor in your hand and move it around to let the light hit the blade from different angles, but almost impossible to catch the effect in pictures.. The only thing I can compare it to is a hologram.

Take a look:









I took a lot of pictures from all kinds of angles, with and without flash and extra lighting and it's the best I could do. The 3rd picture was a macro close-up with flash.. Sorry I couldn't take better pictures. I only have a nokia n95 that I use to take pics with.

This is my first Heljestrand, and boy am I happy with it!

Unreal beauty!

Here's my Heljestrand Mk. 31. An antique store find. Definitely has replacement scales, and that is a project for another day, but it is a great shave!

I decided to look up the city of Eskilstuna on Wikipedia, and interestingly, it had the following observation: "Eskilstuna is sometimes called The Sheffield of Sweden. The origin of this comparison with Sheffield is unknown, even though both cities share the characteristics of being early industrialised and later struck with mass unemployment. There is probably a connection to the common history of Steel and steel-related industry."

I think we know the answer.

Fred

Originally Posted by MisterA

I finally got my Heljestrand and I must say.. It has the strangest etching I have ever seen.

Looks very nice even if it's been polished out.
Somebody must recognize the skyline, come on all your scandinavians, where's that?

Originally Posted by fpatton

Here's my Heljestrand Mk. 31. An antique store find. Definitely has replacement scales, and that is a project for another day, but it is a great shave!

It's possible that the point has been slightly shortened as well. They're usually more rounded than this.

After cleaning.....great shaver!

Another one!

Jumping jimps, batman! That's one sweet etch. You really hit the motherlode on that one...