Hi all!
When did straight razors start using jimps?
Best regards,
Gabe
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Hi all!
When did straight razors start using jimps?
Best regards,
Gabe
Good question you will be hard pushed to find them much before 1850 I would say I've not seen many if any on early stubtail shavers Pre 1810, personally I like my razors with jimps.
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Not sure when it was made but it is a stubby. It's marked Hancock with some crude jimps. Could have been done at a later date I don't know. But they are large and most likely done with a round file.
It's just i have a Wade & Butcher with a royal stamp, G crown R. That would date it 1820-1830, it has jimps both on top & bottom of tang so i'm a bit confused.
Cracking razor!
Just google Stubtail razors then click images it's pretty hard to find jimps on anything pre 1830s.Quote:
Originally Posted by GabrielMartin
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Here is the razor in question
I read here that people use to hold their razors differently back in the day. With the older razors the grip was a pinch on each side of the tang instead of top and bottom.This was done to avoid cutting your thumb or index finger on the underside where the tang meets the blade.
Thats very interesting and very wise, would also explain why most stamps are worn so.
Thanks Hacker! ;)
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Here is another oldie. A French razor with jimps.
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Here is an old Clayton maybe late 1700s to 1810. It would be very easy to cut yourself with a modern grip.
Ah! Gorgeous! Both very old and have jimps! Fantastic! Thanks Hacker!! Awesome! ;)
Well really the way jimps happened is because back in the old days razors were used as weapons and when you slit someone's throat and took a real deep cut all that blood would come spurting out and the jimps help channel the blood away from you.
I understand Jack the Ripper was a real fan of those jimps.
Har har.
I think it was Neil Miller that told me the early razor makers did those jimps by hand, and they did them quickly. Amazing skill because they are so uniform.
Not even just the early ones, they were cut by hand for a long time. In fact, they still do sometimes. Here's a video of files being made, you can see almost the same process. It's quite fast if you know what you're doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
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That kind of wear is just age, regrinding, bad stampings in the first place, etc. The fingers aren't enough to cause that kind of wear.Quote:
Originally Posted by GabrielMartin
