Thread: DORKO - please help.

Not your typical 'Fuller' I would guess.
A great deal could be found as laying this on a hone and checking to see if it lies on the top, or bottom spine.
OR both simultaneously. Were it the bottom spine, it would be a stabilized 5/8 or so hollow with some jazz on top (weight)

If the top spine lays flat it's possibly an attempt to get a steeper bevel on a smaller razor?

Or.....Bling (as I think).

That stabilizer on the lower 2/3 along with all the rest tells me they used all the tricks they knew!

Somewhere after 1900 the razor companies in Solingen (and surely also elsewhere) prdocued so-called security razors. The security razors have been normal straights or adapted versions, on which a protective mantel was mounted, so that the edge of the razor didn't touch the skin. Later on the same system was used for effilier/ thinning razors.
There are several patents for this protective devices and how they were mounted on the razor. Most of them simply have been clamped somehow on the razors spine - so they could be used for each staight. But some special variants required a certain sliding chute near the spine.
So I think that is what you see on your Dorko. Could be wrong though and it might be something else.

Here are some old advertisements showing these security razors:







Regards Peter

We had s few similar versions, Peter. Here in the States, we know them as safety straights.



I used to have a barber who did use one for thinning hair. But it had a disposable blade. I use mine for cleaning up the back of my neck, after a clipper cut/ buzz job.

Now THAT makes sense, hatzicho !

I wondered if that might be what the grooved spine was for also. Here is another variant. George W Korn "The Real"




The spine is not grooved on this one. The guide/guard swivels around to work on either side. Pretty clever little gadget really. This one is Little Valley steel from it's hayday also so it is a great little shaver.

Originally Posted by outback

I use mine for cleaning up the back of my neck, after a clipper cut/ buzz job.

I have shaved my own neck with a DE but I like a straight shave on it so I have my wife or son do it. It didn't seem quite safe doing that in the mirror. I never really thought about using this on for that but maybe I'll try it.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

I have shaved my own neck with a DE but I like a straight shave on it so I have my wife or son do it. It didn't seem quite safe doing that in the mirror. I never really thought about using this on for that but maybe I'll try it.

I have the back of my neck shaved by my wife with the clippers. She refuses to even hold a straight and flatly refuses to try and shave me with anything but those clippers

Yeah my wife hates it too. My son doesn't though so if he's available I get him to do it because I get a better shave from him since he's not scared of it.

Originally Posted by hatzicho

Somewhere after 1900 the razor companies in Solingen (and surely also elsewhere) prdocued so-called security razors. The security razors have been normal straights or adapted versions, on which a protective mantel was mounted, so that the edge of the razor didn't touch the skin. Later on the same system was used for effilier/ thinning razors.
There are several patents for this protective devices and how they were mounted on the razor. Most of them simply have been clamped somehow on the razors spine - so they could be used for each staight. But some special variants required a certain sliding chute near the spine.
So I think that is what you see on your Dorko. Could be wrong though and it might be something else.

Here are some old advertisements showing these security razors:







Regards Peter

Thank you! Very believable!