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    I look at frameback (and faux) to describe a razors with two-piece (spine and blade) construction period.
    IMO, any razor of one-piece construction should be defined differently
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    I look at frameback (and faux) to describe a razors with two-piece (spine and blade) construction period.
    IMO, any razor of one-piece construction should be defined differently
    Now that would be much simpler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aggelos View Post
    Then look up, I've summed it all
    You obviously missed this post, Aggelos. #15.

    With regard to the use of "baguette" to name a frameback, the french have other curious names for a straight razor, such as "coupe Chou/x" - literally a Cabbage Cutter, They also have a more reasonable name - 'rasoir droit'.

    The UK uses (or used - the language is going to pot fast) 'open razor' or 'cut throat razor' - very Sweeney Todd!

    The dutch seem to agree with the english in using "Open Scheermes" - open razor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil Miller View Post
    You obviously missed this post, Aggelos. #15.

    With regard to the use of "baguette" to name a frameback, the french have other curious names for a straight razor, such as "coupe Chou/x" - literally a Cabbage Cutter, They also have a more reasonable name - 'rasoir droit'.

    The UK uses (or used - the language is going to pot fast) 'open razor' or 'cut throat razor' - very Sweeney Todd!

    The dutch seem to agree with the english in using "Open Scheermes" - open razor.

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    The "baguette" or "tube" style razor makes sense as well, as that would give substance to where the idea of all frame back razors being of lower quality, when in fact, many are of extraordinary craftsmanship.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil Miller View Post
    You obviously missed this post, Aggelos. #15.

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    Thanks for linking to that post. Now my head does not hurt so much and I am back to my original thinking on the whole framback/faux frame back issue. Thank you for confirming that the Swedish type "tube framebacks" we indeed cheap and easy to produce relative to other types of straight razors. This thread has been a real slice.

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    So I did.

    I did forget to mention tube framebacks and you gave the gist of it in your post

    As an apology, here is an interesting set of pictures relating another part of the story of some tube framebacks, if you will (but I'm sure I won't teach you anything new)

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    And yes, in France we mostly call straigh razors "cabbage cutters", the literal translation of "straight razor", "rasoir droit" is also seldom used. We're strange like that. One of the most important French communities is therefore the CCC for "Coupe Chou Club".
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    Thanks Aggelos, now I get to see what is missing on all those strange looking straight razors like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aggelos View Post
    So I did.

    I did forget to mention tube framebacks and you gave the gist of it in your post

    As an apology, here is an interesting set of pictures relating another part of the story of some tube framebacks, if you will (but I'm sure I won't teach you anything new)

    And yes, in France we mostly call straigh razors "cabbage cutters", the literal translation of "straight razor", "rasoir droit" is also seldom used. We're strange like that. One of the most important French communities is therefore the CCC for "Coupe Chou Club".
    No apology necessary my friend.

    I do have a few friends on the CCC forum and I have posted a few times there before. I think one thread included my identification of a makers mark with contribution by Charlie Horologie and others.

    And yes, that is an interesting razor you included a pic of, but as far as framebacks go it is a blind alley - no relation at all. It is none other than our old friend the Guard Razor, an attempt at a kind of safety razor - the fingers on the guard were supposed to stop you from cutting yourself. Some kinds emerged c1860s for civil war soldiers who had lost a limb or who suffered from shock of the war - it was supposed to help a one armed shave and save a man with trembling hands from cutting himself.

    I am fairly confidant that the guard in your pic does not belong to razor - the razor is a Sheffield made one stamped with the logo of a London dealer (can not make out the name, but Strand is an affluent street in London), while the guard is for a Frank Revett "Virgil" brand razor - he was a leading Sheffield maker.

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    There were other variations on the basic frameback design, not just the two most people have seen (IE, blade fitted into different-metal spine and tang vs. thin razor with alternate metal raised areas on the spine).

    As near as I can tell, the first design was the one Bennington Gill (of Birmingham) came up with and sold to Rhodes & Champion in 1824.



    After David Champion died, his sons continued the business and sold this razor sometime around 1824-1826:



    Most of the early Sheffield framebacks are like that with either brass or German silver.

    The Brothers Dittmar in Heilbronn, Germany were producing this odd design in the 1840's:



    The grind on that is remarkably complex. The blade and tang are a single piece, but the blade is ground flat and about 4mm deeper on either side than the tang. Then the tang has a cladding of German silver that the maker's mark is stamped into, plus the tube on the top is notched to fit into a slot at the top of the tang.

    Their earlier design was much simpler (I don't have pictures), but it was essentially what most people think of as the 'tubed spine' style frameback.

    By the 1850's, Sheffield produced a lot of these:



    Though these were also popular:


    (That's a Joseph Elliot manufactured William Gilchrist razor)

    Japan produced a lot with this design after 1950 or so:

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    And of course, Sheffield produced any number of razors designs that don't have any specific name, like this Wade & Butcher manufactured William Gilchrist:



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