Thread: Custom Straight Razor by the Muskrat Man

Its a beautiful razor but as a working razor I think because of the blade geometry honing will be a major problem. If it can be honed dead flat fine but with the usual 30 degree angle most straights require if thats the case manually holding the razor at that constant angle while honing I think will make things very difficult.

Originally Posted by JMS

I have a frameback I would like to send you for study. it is made similar to yours but along the spine it has what looks like a piece of brass tubing to give it just the right angle for honing. if your interested let me know.

Mark Avery

I may have the same razor. I picked this up in an Ebay auction (I like the look of framebacks):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN:IT&ih=019


The picture was not real clear (so what else is new?) - so when I opened it, I was shocked at what it was, very thin with this brass tubing on the spine, etc., etc.. The tang says:

JON. ENGSTROM
ESKILSTUNA
SWEDEN

I doublt if I will hone it or ever shave with it. It's a curious piece that I'll have around for conversation. It's, also, quite light, which I don't like.

I'm not out a lot for it, more than I wanted to pay, though: $16.29 Oh, well....... could of been worst.

Steve

In my book if it shaves well without skinning your face and will hold an edge its a razor and looks pretty dam good to me , I made one from scratch my self ,thin spine like yours out of ATS34 and didn`t like it so I never finished the honing ,I think you just may have given me the inspiration I needed
kind regards Peter

Originally Posted by zepplin

I may have the same razor. I picked this up in an Ebay auction (I like the look of framebacks):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN:IT&ih=019


The picture was not real clear (so what else is new?) - so when I opened it, I was shocked at what it was, very thin with this brass tubing on the spine, etc., etc.. The tang says:

JON. ENGSTROM
ESKILSTUNA
SWEDEN

I doublt if I will hone it or ever shave with it. It's a curious piece that I'll have around for conversation. It's, also, quite light, which I don't like.

I'm not out a lot for it, more than I wanted to pay, though: $16.29 Oh, well....... could of been worst.

Steve

That is exactly the razor!