Indians For Guns

This belonged to my Great-grand father so easily more then 70 years old. Its made in switzerland under the trademark Allegro. Has British and US patents. Used for sharpening twin blades and has a triangular stropping surfaces :- black stone ,green stone and leather. Each forward stroke of the slide sharpens the front edge and the return stroke for the second edge

Brings back memories. My dad had one of those.

i donot see anything

Wonderful Rahul, thanks for sharing the pics. Quite a treasure you have there, first the lighters now the guided sharpening system. Have you tried using it?


Regards
Moin.

Beautiful...

I've yet to lay my hands on one of those !!

didn't understand the picture!any help?

dr.jayakumar wrote:didn't understand the picture!any help?

It is a sharpener for double edge razor blades.


For this type of razor:


You can see the blade being held on the right side, and the dark sharpening stone is running diagonally across the sharpener. So you would make a few passes then turn the blade over and make a few more passes, then change the stone to the next finer grit.

Moin Thanks . cannot try as the system is made for slightly different blade style . Not for the modern pre sharpened blades.
Thanks mark for the explanation. but i think this system is not for the modern blades

rahul567 wrote:Moin Thanks . cannot try as the system is made for slightly different blade style . Not for the modern pre sharpened blades.
Thanks mark for the explanation. but i think this system is not for the modern blades

I see a modern blade in it, were you not able to sharpen it satisfactorily?

I have just put the blade for reference , But the thickness of the blade seems to be less to sharpen it.