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    Hello,

    I recently acquired this Erik Anton Berg. I am looking for some more information about it. The razor is very thin, 2mm, also at the spine and tang. I have never seen anything quite like it. The spine also has strange markings on the side.Too irregular to be ornaments, too regular to be damage of some sort.

    I can't imagine it can be honed with such a small spine. Is there a piece of the razor missing? How would I go at trying to restore this one?

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    Luc

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    It is a frame back. Yu are missing the top piece. You can make one ou of some copper tubing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wintchase View Post
    It is a faux-frameback. Yu are missing the top piece. You can make one ou of some copper tubing.
    There, fixed.
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    Or use tape, lots and lots of tape!

    There was a thread about making a new back for one of these a while back.
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    In original, it was something like this:

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    If you want an original back piece, you can probably find a blade in bad condition really cheep and take the back from it.
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    Thanks, you guys. That certainly is enough info to get me going. I thought I was starting to know something about straights, but apparently, I know nothing.

    It will be a bit of a challenge to restore that one, good!

    Luc
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    If you know a competent machinist with the proper tools and skill it wouldn't be that difficult to machine a back out of stock and epoxy it in place. If you found a similar model to get the proper dimension for the spine thickness you'd be good to go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
    Or use tape, lots and lots of tape!

    There was a thread about making a new back for one of these a while back.
    Here the thread about making a new frame for your razor: http://straightrazorpalace.com/vendo...r-customs.html

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    This is the type of backing sleeve it would have had, not one of those solid ones (the solid ones don't often come adrift, but the tube ones do!):

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    The one above is a bit battered, but originally it would have been a tube, slit along its length and shaped at the back. You could use brass, but it wears a bit quickly when honing, or you could find some steel or stainless tube and slit it with a fine diamond wheel that is less than 1mm thick. Helps if you have a friend with a machine shop like Jimmy said, or if you can make a holder for the tube and set the saw - maybe a dremel - fixed in one position, using the tube holder to slide the tube under the wheel against a rail. The saw wheel width should be less than the width of the blade, so it makes a spring-fit.

    You can use a fine blade saw like a jewellers saw, but you have to have a steady hand and a number of blades - they snap real easy!

    They do trap water, so you might want to seal with silicone or epoxy.

    Good luck!

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