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11-09-2014, 09:11 PM #1I love Burls....... and Acrylic
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french frameback with removable blade.
I just saw Phranks post about his Le Grelot frame back with a removable blade, and it reminded me that I also have one similar. It's an Ad Arbenze razor that I can't seem to find any info on. It should clean up nice once I get around to it. But these framebacks with removable blades sure are neat!
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11-09-2014, 09:59 PM #2
Arbenz was the "Authorized" UK dealer in them. So far I've seen eight different names stamped. And..I begin to think that the unstamped tangs are the real Le Coultre's. He didn't patent his.
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11-09-2014, 10:32 PM #3I love Burls....... and Acrylic
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Thanks for the info Richard. I guess my next question is, these removable blades, they're not suppose to be disposable, are they? I'm sure I can put an edge back on this thing, right????
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11-09-2014, 10:59 PM #4Senior Member
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No they were not Disposable,most came with multible blades,Tape the spine and hone away. Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY
I had one in Ivory back in the day.
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11-10-2014, 12:04 AM #5
Me too and I love it! Originally Posted by pixelfixed
A large magnet is a good holder to clean the blades flat on a wet/ dry abrasive paper stuck to a flat surface with a layer of water. A small steel detail brush. or a toothbrush with more effort and time required, does the blade groove.
Rolling X stroke does the trick...quickly!.
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11-10-2014, 12:50 AM #6I love Burls....... and Acrylic
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Thanks guys!
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11-10-2014, 12:50 PM #7Aristocratic treasure hunter
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Adolf Arbenz was a French cutler working in Jougne in the French Doubs, about 30km from Pontarlier, where most of the French absinthe was produced at the time. Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY
Jougne is not that far from "Le Sentier", where Lecoultre was established at the time. It is safe to assume that, indeed, the mechanism is the Lecoultre mechanism.
Therefore, Arbenz used a marketting trick at the time, mainly used in the world of absinthe : the Swiss cross meaning "Swiss quality" (which was the highest grade for absinthe).
I am currently working on mine. A friend of mine (Thaeris) put some ivory scales on it, and I intend to perform a scrimshaw on them, in hommage to my other passion (which is easy to guess at this point).
Of course, the blades are non disposable, and besides the known set, you can find leather purses for the other blades :
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