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09-12-2011, 05:49 PM #1
Yeah it's a more unusual model, but there are other razors with similar ledge on the spine. Both Sheffield and Solingen. I'll try to take pictures and upload them in the database next time I stumble on one of mine.
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09-12-2011, 05:57 PM #2
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09-12-2011, 06:27 PM #3
The geometry would only be effected if, say a "spine" had fallen off. I think this is not the case. Also,it is hollow ground and framebacks, as I know them, are mostly flat. I have several razors, Sheffield and German, with a dropped spine, but are larger. It lies on the hone perfectly!
"Don't be stubborn. You are missing out."
I rest my case.
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09-12-2011, 06:30 PM #4
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09-12-2011, 06:34 PM #5
For some reason I perceived in the OP that the geometry was off mentioning the spine width being narrow.
I actually have had a hollow ground razor with a wrap of brass making it like a frameback.
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09-12-2011, 06:42 PM #6
Last edited by sharptonn; 09-13-2011 at 01:06 AM.
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I rest my case.
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09-13-2011, 10:04 AM #7
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Thanked: 3164I have a very similar Swedish razor - can't remember if it is an E A Berg or a Hellberg, with the same dropped spine. Although it seems overkill for a frameback with the thick spine and hollow grinding, I suppose it could be for that reason. But it could just as likely be for sitting a hair-cutting guide on - I have seen a few old smiling razors with that design. The one below (Berg, Solingen) has a guide fixed in place - no cutout or drop in the spine though, but the same principle:
The guide is simply fitted by tightening the screws in the above example - there is no hole drilled in the razors spine to take the central screw like I have seen in some examples. If the guide was shaped to fit on top of the spine and 'spring' tempered so that the side flaps gripped the hollow, then the screws would be unnecessary - I have seen this type of guard, too.
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Neil
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09-13-2011, 12:20 PM #8
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Thanked: 9Definitely looks like it had been a frameback in its prior life.
Still, it looks very nice!