I have a vintage razor that is slightly harder steel than modern Dovo's (based on it's higher pitched tone when twacked with a fingernail). The monkey tail tip contacts the scales unless I close it extremely carefully.

Will bending the monkey tail cause the tang to crack ? (Are the tang's hardened ?)
Is annealing the monkey tail with a $20-30 propane soldering set-up likely to work ?
The scales are a hard cream colored plastic. Is there an easy way to repair the flea-bite that the monkey tail took out of the edge of one of the scale ?

Thanks.