Thread: Rattler - Faux Frameback Question

not to argue with the experts but; it's seem i remember reading that a real frame back is one that has the tang and spine made of one piece of metal with a blade inserted and a faux one has the blade and spine made of one piece of steel with the spine inserted over the top?

If not, than is there a different term for them?

Here y'all..!!

One thing that helps me make sense of the confusion is to apply what I know of modern advertising... and then apply the concept that there's nothing new under the son.

Advertisers are a dubious bunch! And so its hard to know which companies were simply using a catchy popular name to sell more razors.
Shavers back then were probably at times saying "uh, no, that's not a rattler, that's a space station!!!"

BUT I guess its also an assumption to presume they had fully standardized terms for the grinds back then..?

I gave up on the "Rattler" designation after I saw a Double Hollow stamped "Rattler Razor" it made zero sense after that basically near every grind had a razor called Rattler

To my eyes, there are 4 different Framebacks

#1 Removable Blade True Frameback
#2 Non-Removable Blade True Frameback
#3 Solid blade and tang with an added spine Faux Frameback
#4 Longitudinal ground Faux Frameback



That keeps it all straight for my OCD brain

That makes more sense to me, Glen.

That explains it. Thanks Glen.

Another thing to help explain ‘rattler’: it was a description of the sound the razor made when shaving. So any razor that made a loud noise when shaving was, to the ear of the 19th century shaver, a rattler. It’s a case of usage changing a little bit. Now rattle implies a very un-shaving-like action, whereas up until the advent of radio, roughly, it was more of a word describing a sound (radio, and ‘static’ seems to have been a pressure on word usage if you look at a Google NGram of the two words, but the correlation is weak).

that was the explanation I understood also Zak

It Rattled over the beard..

Thanks guys, now I'm totally confused. All this time I thought a Rattler was a poisonous snake.....he! he!

Originally Posted by DoughBoy68

Thanks guys, now I'm totally confused. All this time I thought a Rattler was a poisonous snake.....he! he!

These rattlers can also bite. Sometimes they bite before rattling!

~Richard