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    Quote Originally Posted by livio View Post
    Maybe you are right , I will think about send it out to one of the experts.
    I'm no expert .... so I'd ask an expert, why did they stamp "Blank For Concaving" in the tang if the razor wasn't intended to be ground subsequent to the sale ? I'm thinking that it is not a finished blade. If it were mine, I'd want it to end up still a wedge, or close to it. It is not necessary to have it become a full hollow, unless that is what you want.

    I had said in an earlier post that I remembered seeing one stamped the same in the past. I wonder what the idea was ? Were there hobbyists around back then who wanted blanks to grind their own ? If the blanks were for another company they wouldn't want the W&B name on the tang, let alone blank for concaving. So what these are about to begin with kind of puzzles me.

    The grand old man of tattooing Charlie Wagner had a shop on the Bowery in NYC from 1897 until he died in 1953. He used to sell tattoo machines through the mail. Had an add in Popular Mechanics. His frames were stamped with his name on the upright, unless you wanted it blank, so you could stamp your own name. I could see W&B selling blanks with no name, but can't understand them doing it with their own.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    The grand old man of tattooing Charlie Wagner had a shop on the Bowery in NYC from 1897 until he died in 1953. He used to sell tattoo machines through the mail. Had an add in Popular Mechanics. His frames were stamped with his name on the upright, unless you wanted it blank, so you could stamp your own name. I could see W&B selling blanks with no name, but can't understand them doing it with their own.
    Little known fact: The crew at W&B also wore sombreros when they made razor blanks .


    My thoughts: That's a lovely big hunk of razor. Whatever you do, start gingerly and with minimal metal removal. That stuff is really hard to put back on once it's removed...
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    Quote Originally Posted by entropy1049 View Post
    Little known fact: The crew at W&B also wore sombreros when they made razor blanks .


    My thoughts: That's a lovely big hunk of razor. Whatever you do, start gingerly and with minimal metal removal. That stuff is really hard to put back on once it's removed...
    That's correct - and when they made the Masonic ones, they had their right trouser leg rolled up. - fact.
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