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Rolled, I don't believe. It is possible that they were sometimes swaged into the red-hot tang with a sort of specially cut pincer, possibly pounded with a hammer for the momentary action which...

We see the term used of two distinct features. One is filework on the back of the blade, which is surely the most purposeless. The other is serration on the tang, which I still think is of little...

Personally I find bone shaves better than horn, and both are well ahead of plastic, but I hesitate to draw conclusions. The boards are full of people finding a difference between razor and razor, and...

If that. I think they could only be marginal and ingenious function, at the most. Why aren't they all doing it?

I don't see any valid reason to have them, except maybe not wanting the razor to look ordinary - and if you don't think ordinary is good, in a razor, that is what scales are for.

But if you must,...