I wonder if the weight being the same as the thicker bone might have to do with the source of the bone. One may be bovine and the other from a more exotic animal ? :idea:
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I'm surprised its not a Swedish razor - I have some Klas Tornblom's with super thin bone and have seen a few other Swedes the same.
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Hmm got me even more curious now about old bone/ivory to new bone/ivory. Different sources could be why some are thicker than others. Different animals could produce denser product. Now if only I have some mammoth tusk lying around to check weight:quantity ratio.
So I decided to mess around with the scales abit. I took a set of horn scales that I had lying around that were 3x as thick, alittle longer and with a bigger lead wedge and the razor still balanced in the same spot. I am going to have to get a postal scale and see what those bone scales weigh. I am thinking that over the years the bone has soaked up alot of stuff to make them that heavy. Either way I think I am going to replace the bone with the horn. The bone looks pretty dry rotted in spots. I will save them for a different razor.