Thanks Voidmonster, that's why I signed up for this forum! I'm more interested in the forged history of the blades than the shaving. I've done some forging myself and the form is really beautiful to me. Thanks for the info!
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Thanks Voidmonster, that's why I signed up for this forum! I'm more interested in the forged history of the blades than the shaving. I've done some forging myself and the form is really beautiful to me. Thanks for the info!
Holley razors were the same. They used ore from their back yard to smelt the steel and everything was handmade. Oddly enough because they chose to hand forge everything they were eventually “edged” out of the market by drop forges and more of a mass produced blade. (Pun intended)
Automation came for everybody’s lunch, eventually. Ironically, it was what saved the Solingen industry. Or at least that’s what Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd had to say on the subject around the beginning of the 20th century.
I need to visit more flea markets--nice snag!
I have a blade just like that with no scales. Problem is it was in a box of other unscaled razor that got misplaced when we moved. I paid a couple of bucks for mine also.
Slawman
WOW that is an awesome price. Love those razors