Extremely Vintage guided sharpening system

[rahul567]

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

[xl_target]

Brings back memories. My dad had one of those.

[sudhaiob]

i donot see anything

[Moin.]

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.

[Olly]

Beautiful...

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

[dr.jayakumar]

didn't understand the picture!any help?

[Mark]

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.

[rahul567]

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

[Mark]

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?

[rahul567]

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