Thread: Historical razor examples and depictions

Thanks for sharing your research!

Great images. Looking to forward to hearing more.

All the best,
Michael.

Hmmm.... that very first picture is a frameback...

That certainly pushes the dates for frames and hollows back a bit!

Really neat- thanks for sharing.

This is great. Keep up the posts!

Originally Posted by leadduck

Some cool stuff. You note the first image from Germany. I'd be interested in knowing where the others are from.

The woodcuts are all German or Swiss. The replicas are all based off of English designs.

Originally Posted by BKratchmer

Hmmm.... that very first picture is a frameback...

That certainly pushes the dates for frames and hollows back a bit!

Really neat- thanks for sharing.

It is possible that the frame-back look is just done to show a hollow-ish grind. Realism wasn't a key factor in the imagery of that period. It sure does look like one though

Thanks for a very interesting post. Please post pics of the razors you are having made.

Regards,

Mark

I really like the looks of the razor in white scales with the straight monkey tail simple but beautiful.

Hello, Muirtach:

Thank you for digging up these pictures. Such fascinating razors. Good work, sir.

Regards,
Obie

Thank you for these pics. No flipping of the tang when stropping with those razors. Very nice.

Granted, time is not kind to steel and horn, but I've always found it a bit odd that it seems in large part the oldest razors we normally see actual examples of don't appear (loosely) prior to say 1830-40?

Chris L

Originally Posted by Muirtach

It is possible that the frame-back look is just done to show a hollow-ish grind. Realism wasn't a key factor in the imagery of that period. It sure does look like one though

That would be even more striking, as it pushes hollow-ground blades back about 400 years!