Thread: Very thin E.A. Berg

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?

Thanks,
Luc

It is a frame back. Yu are missing the top piece. You can make one ou of some copper tubing.

Originally Posted by Wintchase

It is a faux-frameback. Yu are missing the top piece. You can make one ou of some copper tubing.

There, fixed.

Or use tape, lots and lots of tape!

There was a thread about making a new back for one of these a while back.

In original, it was something like this:

If you want an original back piece, you can probably find a blade in bad condition really cheep and take the back from it.

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

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.

Originally Posted by Lemur

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

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!):



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!

Neil