Thread: Hot Pressed Horn Repair?

Here's a pic from an excellent french book - Rasoir a Droit - that shows a later version of the press. I doubt that they changed much over the years, though:



BTW, I work with a lot of old razors and when the blade is being re-pinned you can often open the scales and see the horn-pressers or plate-makers initials on the inner surface of the scale. Sometimes they look crude and scratched on, sometimes they had been delicately carved into the steel. A wade and Butcher I was working on a few days ago had a very neatly inscribed 'W*F" on it. Echoes of a long dead hand and a part of history that we don't know enough about.

Regards,
Neil