Hard to say for sure. I would guess it's from the first quarter of the 19th century, but it's hard to say with these Frenchies. Still doing my homework on the maker
Thanks. It's marked "LEBRETON AENCERS" with a key.
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It could be a G. What do you think?
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There are definitely cutlers with the last name LeBreton the one that I was thinking was in Angers not Encers .
It's not a faux pas so much as an indicator of how worn the blade is.
IMHO a blade that is freshly made should have a healthy belly that allows for chip correction due to accidents without honing on stabilisers. Some razors are not made that way, even expensive customs which always leaves me scratching my head. Pic of a well made blade below.
Ok, That makes total sense.
I've definitely been honing 'around' the stabilizer. Ill have to start paying more attention to that. I feel like i've even adjusted my honing strokes to keep the stabilizers off the hone, instead of grinding them out of the way a bit.
Lesson learned. Thanks for the heads up guys. For some reason i just wasn't visualizing the geometry till now. I did fix up the heel on that Duck a few weeks back.. but it still didn't click.
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I took the heel up, removing the line coming down from the tang, but never ground out the stabilizer at the belly. I should have evened up the front of that shoulder with the belly of the blade.
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There's nothing wrong with modifying your strokes to keep the stabilizer off of the hones. That's the right way to do it as long as there's no heel hook. It is nice to modify it and not have to worry about it though.