I am new in this hobby. A friend gave me a handful of scaleless blade to play with for my honing skills and restoration skills as he is busy working on amazing high end projects.

One of the blade he gave me was snapped in half at the tang between the pin hole and heel. I have no idea how the happened. The razor is otherwise clean and lacked any other damage. We toyed with making a kamisori style fixed blade. I toyed with trying a welding job with my small MIG but knew it would not turn out well. I took it to my neighbor who runs a business with several welders that routinely do stainless and TIG welding. I showed it to him and this is what came back to me.

Unfortunately I cannot find the before picture. You will have to take my word for it. A clean break without edge distortion.

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Now on to scales and honing.

BTW, does anyone have any info on this razor history?