A Tech with a hollow handle?

[Kamamuri]

I've to ID a Tech with a hollow handle (like the Psycho but is not a Psycho). It's made in England and looks like the follow link http://www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/Tech/1940s French Tech.jpg

Could some expert help me? Some pics:

Case

The top of the head

Diferents hadnles

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Thanks in advance.

 

[luvmysuper]

Is the hole in the end of the handle perfectly centered? It looks like the hole in the end is off center in the fourth picture, as if the metal is thicker at the top right.
Is the end of the hollow handle threaded?

 

[valmara1971]

Perhaps a custom super super lightweight tech? Perhaps it was for use by an ant?

 

[cfriend]

Are you sure it's not a psycho? The inside looks threaded in the last photo.

 

[Kamamuri]

Is the hole in the end of the handle perfectly centered? It looks like the hole in the end is off center in the fourth picture, as if the metal is thicker at the top right.
Is the end of the hollow handle threaded?

Yes, the hole is prefetly centered. I don't understand "thicker" .

If threaded means that you are asking if is the hole from end to end, yes it is.

The handle with the hole weigts 35 grams and the other 25.

Pics: the extrange Tech is in the rigth too:

 

[luvmysuper]

Unless it was done by someone who owned it previously, I am stumped on this one!

 

[Kamamuri]

Me too. Maybe can be a customized handle.

I'd like to know the Achim's opinion or the other guy that knows a lot about de vintage Gillettes, Guigo?

If someone has some more idea, feel free to tell us.

 

[Kamamuri]

Are you sure it's not a psycho? The inside looks threaded in the last photo.

I don't think so because I don't need any key to change the blade. Yes, the inside is threaded.

 

[Kamamuri]

Any new or opinion about this model? Come on gentlemans, I need more ligth.

Thaaanks.

 

[michiganlover]

My first thought (and I could be vastly off base) was that one of the previous owners used a saw of some sort to cut the end off of a standard Fat handle. In the photos, the center hole thus produced looks a bit off center, which would seem to support this theory.

 

[Kamamuri]

My first thought (and I could be vastly off base) was that one of the previous owners used a saw of some sort to cut the end off of a standard Fat handle. In the photos, the center hole thus produced looks a bit off center, which would seem to support this theory.

Thaks for your opinion. I agree with you but the mistery is that the handle with the hole is haevier that the normal, that doesn't make sense... The hole is a little off-center as well.

 

[thirdeye]

Me too. Maybe can be a customized handle.

I'd like to know the Achim's opinion or the other guy that knows a lot about de vintage Gillettes, Guigo?

If someone has some more idea, feel free to tell us.

That would be Guido. You guys all forget about me these days. Guess I know nothing about vintage Gillettes anymore.......

 

[luvmysuper]

That would be Guido. You guys all forget about me these days. Guess I know nothing about vintage Gillettes anymore.......

We havn't forgotten you Ray, we just figured you were a bit tied up, what with Moderator duties and the day to day chores of a successful small business that we all would kill our grandmothers to have!!

 

[thirdeye]

We havn't forgotten you Ray, we just figured you were a bit tied up, what with Moderator duties and the day to day chores of a successful small business that we all would kill our grandmothers to have!!

Thanks Phil, now I am to busy, cleaning the coffee off my monitor that I just spit all over it.....

 

[luvmysuper]

Thanks Phil, now I am to busy, cleaning the coffee off my monitor that I just spit all over it.....

Seriously, that's gotta be like Tom Hanks in the Movie "Big" - You know, a kid with a job as a toy manufacturer.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are tedious things that have to be done, but - C'mon, totally surrounded by shaving goodies.

 

[thirdeye]

Seriously, that's gotta be like Tom Hanks in the Movie "Big" - You know, a kid with a job as a toy manufacturer.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are tedious things that have to be done, but - C'mon, totally surrounded by shaving goodies.

Yep, cleaning the glass counter/showcase top constantly. I build so many bowls of lather every day to show folks how its done and of coarse there's the splatter....Gotta keep the glass sparkling so you can see all the pretty shiny razors....

 

[gollum83]

Are you sure it's not a psycho? The inside looks threaded in the last photo.

It's not. There's a couple giveaways there with the biggest being that it's stamped with the the Gillette logo, which Psychos aren't. The consensus there is that Gillette likely didn't want to be associated with mental hospitals and prisons where Psychos were used hence Psychos are only visibly stamped on the outside with a date code, nothing more.

 

[mr-razor]

It's not. There's a couple giveaways there with the biggest being that it's stamped with the the Gillette logo, which Psychos aren't. The consensus there is that Gillette likely didn't want to be associated with mental hospitals and prisons where Psychos were used hence Psychos are only visibly stamped on the outside with a date code, nothing more.

Here is one from 1973 (T4) with Gillette Logo:

 

[gollum83]

Here is one from 1973 (T4) with Gillette Logo:

Well, I stand corrected, but that D-4 I recently bought doesn't.

 

[Pike]

I think it's been doctored....FWIW I cut a early 50's fat handle in half...(don't ask!) and it is hollow. Roughly 1/4 in. hollow either from a casting process or when they drill and tap the hole for attaching the handle.