Thread: A little seen American maker

Originally Posted by Wullie

The stencil for the etch probably got messed up and they decided to run it anyway.

Only other possibility I can think of would be if some other company was claiming exclusive rights to the word RATTLER and they changed it.

Either way, it's a neat variation.

I figure it was a model to be sent to East Texas. Rat-ler!

Thats a stunning razor!

I have a 6-7 Northfields & the one on top is the one I have already shown but I wanted to show a slight difference between the two. You can see that the spine on the top razor swoops up a little more than the one on the bottom. They are both the same otherwise & both say Rattler on the blade. The one on bottom, the etch is a little more faint.
On the one xiaotuzi shows, the person punching in the name just left one "t" out. Must have been a Monday or a Friday.





Here's another Northfield faux frame back, UN-X-LD

Nice ones, Steve! I shall swap you out of one someday!

Oh! Refer to post #5 above!

Those are great looking Northfields there! Thanks for the side-by-side shot showing the difference between the two.

Originally Posted by Hart

A beauty for sure, a few small pits etc. don't detract from it's great looks. It's a Rattler grind and not a faux frameback as the faux has a solid and flat piece of metal from tang to blade with a small bar of metal attached at the spine to provide the honing angle. The true frameback is something of the opposite with the spine and tang one piece and the blade attached to them. Both of them are two pieces of metal one has a separate blade and the other a separate spine. At least as far as I know..

Say that 5 times fast...Thanks for the info