Thread: Three Curiosities

I like to get oddball razors when I have the chance to do so for cheap. This is a pretty good batch!

We'll start at the bottom. It's a Parker 'Improved Eagle Razor'. They've been thrashed to death on the forum in the past, but I always wanted to get one and see if I could hone it. They have a bad habit of selling for way too much money for something I expect to be unusable, but I was able to nab this one on the cheap.

It's poorly balanced but solidly made -- all except for that whole 'usable razor' part. The blade is just badly designed for actual honing. The factory bevel was set with about half the grit of my DMT 1k and done at an angle nowhere remotely close to a razor edge. I tried honing this last night after the end of a long, long trip and I was just too tired to finish. The bevel it developed is ugly. It remains to be seen if it's functional. I didn't take more pictures of it.

Next up is this interesting little guy.




Turn that little collar on the tang and then the blade comes out.



It cost me little, and the design was interesting enough to just grab it.

Finally, there's this oddball.




The Curve Cut, L. S. Morgan, Patented.

That's Lingue S. Morgan, of Kendall Kansas. Patented 1905.



You can see the full patent here.

Unfortunately, it looks like part of the spine got ground off this one. I haven't tried to put it on a hone yet, but the bevel it has is tiny and there's no obvious wear on the spine, but the shape is so odd, and there's so much corrosion, it's hard to tell. No one else even bid on this, probably because it looked home-made and kind of poor.

The scales are aluminum and actually very well balanced. The only real question is going to be if it's in any shape to be honed. If the geometry is too messed up, I'll try making a brass spine to fix the angle.