Thread: Svenskt stål/Swedish steel

Nickel silver pins and washers arrived last friday. Pinned sunday night. It was a long wait.
Very happy to replace the "bleached terrapin" scales for this original ones.

Not the best photo, taken with my cellphone.

The wedge pin is the "nail type". I'll replace it soon wit the ones I used to the pivot. Washers and pinheads are not distinguishable yet, still too polished. Must tarnish a bit with use.

I wish to thank MikeT, who provided me original scales for the Viking. Awesome, dude!

'Rare' is a term that gets thrown around too often to my liking when discussing specific razors or manufacturers, and I hesitate to use it myself. Having said that, I am pretty sure I chanced upon a rare specimen of Swedish manufacture:

An Anderson razor from Malmö, a city on the very southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, roughly 550 km away from Eskilstuna. The only mention of an Anderson who could have possible made this I found in an excerpt from the Post- och Inrikes Tidningar, which roughly translates into English as "The Swedish Gazette", of June 26, 1862, where a knife- and scissor smith, H. Anderson from Malmö is mentioned.





It's a bit over 4/8, a refined quarter hollow grind (roughly) with jimping on the top and bottom of the tang, which is also adorned with what I would call a "French thumb notch". The toe has been honed out a bit, but apart from that the hone wear is minimal. The scales are dark horn with a small escutcheon, presumably silver.

It needed some minor restoration as there was some active rust and still, there is some black rust/minor pitting left on the reverse side of the blade face and around the pivot. I polished the scales with Micro Mesh and gave them a good soak in neatsfoot oil.

I still need to hone her up. It either used to be a bit wider or maybe razor making was not H. Anderson's strong point , as the bevel angle approaches 20.5 degrees. The overall refinement makes me partial to the former, though. On the whole, I find this H. Anderson from Malmö a lovely out of the ordinary addition to my Swedish collection. It is the only one I have seen, and extensive Google-Fu yielded no results, apart from the one newspaper clipping.

Just for the record, I acquired this little gem for the ghastly fee of 44 SEK (~€5) shipped. It was one of those days.

Originally Posted by Pithor

'Rare' is a term that gets thrown around too often...

Really beautiful!

Originally Posted by FAL

Cool, would like to see it/them. E46. I missed a couple of them on yeah, Ebay. Grumble....

Don't beat yourself up about that. The brass frame razors (faux framebacks?) are among the more common Swedish razors. Pretty much every Eskilstuna manufacturer I know of made them in what I can only assume were large numbers. They were among the cheaper models.

A bit different in handling as they are quite thin and lightweight, yet very capable razors.

As promised, a better picture of the Viking, back with original dressing.

Arrived today. Good condition, from Sweden. My first frameback.



Better pictures below.

Very nice Matheus! I like it. It seems to have been very well taken care of.

Pretty well cared. A very narrow and uniform bevel, polished very well with common metal polish (the spine/tang seems to be nickel-plated). And it came thisty... a second of deviant thinking at the coticule and it bit a pretty nasty slice of index finger. I'm sure my finger could sing the national anthem of Sweden with that open mouth if I didn't sealed it with crazy glue. Deeep.

Just arrived - been waiting a long time to find the right one, had to be in mint condition, and I wanted tortoise scales.

Beautiful first shave with this stunner, everything I expected.

C.V. Heljestrand Mk. 32 in Tortoise Scales

That's beautiful Phrank! I think that's the first C.V. Heljestrand I've seen in tortoise scales!