Thread: New Razors!!!

You got yourself some pretty nice razor there Carl, congrats!

I know a little bit about these, so I'll try to help with what I can.

They are, as you assume, all swedish, made in Eskilstuna, the scales on the Hellberg frameback is most likely horn, you should be able to se some fine lines/striations on them. IIRC these were made from late 1800's into 1920-30's.
The frame on the ones I have seen have been made of brass, so does the ones on yours look like, so taping the spine when honing these are crucial (this goes for both the framebacks)
When these were produced they also made "replacement spines" but finding one today is alsmost like winning the lottery

The scales on the Jernbolaget I believe is leather, I've had a couple passing my workbench, they are not specially fun to unpin
If you decide to do so don't try knocking the pin out, it will rip the scales, what I have done is that I started with a 0,8mm (1/32") drillbit taking it very slow, just a little bit at the time to prevent heat build up (you don't want to use water to cool these scales) then working my way gradually up until the whole pin is drilled out.