" I just about extruded my cloaca in the process."
I hate when that happens! :rofl2:
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" I just about extruded my cloaca in the process."
I hate when that happens! :rofl2:
No, what I'm saying is I think the top jimps were possibly done later as part of a regrind. I think that the jimps underneath were probably original to the blade and very carefully hand cut with a file. As far as the hardened metal when you do a regrind you're cutting the hardened metal It's just a wider pass. If It's possible to regrind a blade then why wouldn't it be possible to do a very narrow swath and create a jimp? Especially on a machine made for such a thing but just using a very narrow blade instead of a very wide one which is what a grinding wheel is.
Edit: also I'm thinking that if there were a regrind done it was probably a long time afterward using more modern machinery and giving it a more modern look.
Thing is with this kind of stuff you will never know one way or the other because it is all supposition in most cases. It is basically what ever you want to believe.
Bob
It's funny you should say that Bob because I was actually just thinking that right after I posted that last response. You'll never really know for certain with most of this stuff. You're definitely right about that.
Hey, while I'm supposing can I suppose that I'm the world's most interesting man?
I think they were original to the blade. Most, if not all, top jimps I have seen were more coarse than the lowers.
Like this
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Speaking of regrinds, in this same lot I got this Frederick Reynolds. Perhaps I'm supposing again but look at this one.
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Does it look to anyone else like this has been reground?
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You can still see some of the striations from the stone or belt as the case may be.
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Especially along the spine and the tail near the pivot. Although it doesn't show up as well as I'd like in this pic.
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I guess this could be original factory grinding marks but I would think they'd polish it up more than that wouldn't they? As I said before about the other ones, it seems as though whoever did it did a pretty good job at least functionally because every one that I have honed out of this group has taken a perfect narrow very even bevel the whole length of the blade.
Lots of FR razors did not have a high degree of finish. The tang-stamps tell the tale?
Yeah I noticed there was still a lot of definition in the stamping but It's sometimes depends on how hard you hit the stamp when your stamping as to how deep it goes but I did notice that too Tom. Maybe I've just got regrind on the brain and I'm looking for it now.
It's funny, I've worked in a family business almost all my life. My father apprenticed me when I was a kid. He had his own business which he closed as he got a little older and went to work for the man who later became my father-in-law. I worked there also. We use the individual letter and number stamps and it became very well known around the shop that if he was stamping something you'd better pay attention because he hit it so hard he'd startle you and make you almost jump out of your skin.