Thread: brass encased tang

Strange ....
Now was it meant that way or was it a desperate repair?
Your opinion on this?

Very interesting. Is the brass that is wrapped around the tang tight?? I wonder if it's loose can you see under it? Looks like a repair to me. I would think if it was part of the design that the brass would be one piece. Just my thoughts. Any information on it?
Thanks for showing,
Bill W

I cant see it being made that way...the proportions just arent right...what is the balance like?

Id rescale that in some larger scales and it would look much better!

The brass looks to be fairly cleanly formed (via stamping I would think). But other than the pivot pin, I see no other through rivets. This suggests to me that it NOT a repair, but is meant as a decorative covering.

I suggest some additional 'detective' work as follows:

Take a fairly strong magnet and see if it will 'hold' to the brass tang. If so, how far back along the tang? Is there steel underneath that brass all the way to the tail? Where the magnet will hold, there is obviously steel underneath the brass. My guess is that there is a complete steel blade under that brass.

Of course, it might also be that the steel and brass are joined by some sort of cement, but without a closer look I could not say.

In any case, that is an interesting razor.

PS. I would leave the razor in this condition (scales and all) since I regard it as being something of a collector's item.

Yes, the scales are crap.
Black plastic, too thin and too long.
I'm ot sure a rescale would be worth it, cause the blade has a little clack near the tang.
Brass cleaned up nicely in the meantime.
Its tight. Nothing loose or moving.

Will try the magnet thing

I would think if it was an original part of the razor that the seam would have been sealed by brazing, then filed down to make it look like one piece.

there is no steel in that tang, except about one centimeter close to its end, where the blade starts.
Guess it was a repair.

I guess there must be some sort of cementing work under there.

Still, it seems to be pretty darn good metal forming work for just a 'repair'. Does it not seem rather strange that one would put in all that time to form the brass handle so cleanly when it would otherwise seem simpler to just buy a new razor??

Could it have been intended this way from the beginning ?? Could this be some sort old 'design idea' ???

Looks like the work of Seraphim's evil twin - instead of grinding out metal, metal was added; instead of a thumbnotch there is a finger notch.

I thought maybe it was a blade of one of those old seven day sets with no handle or tang, but I can't see inside.
Anyway, seems to have been quite loved.