Thread: Whath about the viking or chinese razor

Actualy apears in serious arqueology webs a kind of medieval knifes that somebody said could be razors, and you can find another similar or the same knifes in china like fish knifes wath about that, wath do you think?

Those are so gosh darn cool!
They could have been for de scaling or the likes i spose

oh wow...that deffinatly is cool. the one on the right looks like a razor to me for sure!!! thanks for sharing that, very interesting!!

very cool !!!!!!

Didn't all the Vikings have beards?

Where did you find the left pic?
I've never heard of a viking age razor, I did most of my studies in other areas, but if I would have seen one I would have remembered.
Bronze age razors I've seen hundreds of...

Originally Posted by Lemur

Where did you find the left pic?
I've never heard of a viking age razor, I did most of my studies in other areas, but if I would have seen one I would have remembered.
Bronze age razors I've seen hundreds of...

take a look for there

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Originally Posted by johnmrson

Didn't all the Vikings have beards?

Yeah, but we "shaved" our eneimes!

Seriously tho, that last knife seems to only open as far as it is shown, judging by what I percieve to be the shape of the scale (can kinda see the slot is only as long as the second picture shows, in the first pic). I don't think it was ever used as a razor, as it would be very inconvenient to shave with the handle stuck like that.

Sent some emails out to friends in museums in Sweden, nobody have seen a Swedish Viking age razor, there is lots of unknown stuff laying around tho.
I guess they had some type of razor but thin steel rust away quickly.

I may be a little bit late to this thread, but I've just seen this



It looks like the razor you listed in the OP, but considering I saw it on ebay, I'm very dubious about it being anything more than an RSO made a few months ago.


I just made an image search of the picture from the OP and found this blog MINERALARTS: Iron and Thorn | Drawing and metalwork, nature, cats, Sonoran Desert. | Page 22 where the author states that it was

a tiny version of the Fish Pod Knife that is on my Knives webpage. The design is taken from a beautifully forged 19th century antique Chinese fisherman’s knife that I bought a few years ago. This one is only 2 1/4 inches long and is forged from a 4″ cut nail that was divided into three pieces to make the pod, blade, and rivet. It was just an experimental piece and doesn’t have a fancy finish – it will probably adorn a fabric bag or a bell chain. Now I want to try making the pod out of silver or copper.