French Le Coq razor. Need help

[kcb5150]

Picked this up today. A small grail item in my eyes, but only 2/3 of it, unfortunately... As you can see, no cap. Did the french use a different threading for their de because the old type caps I have (which this pretty much had when it was new as far as I can see in photos) didn't jive with the handle. I did get an old german 3 piece travel and travel handle/old type cap it used to mate with the baseplate just fine and it pretty much looked as these all do when intact. And it is as aggressive as all hell. The french handle is just not wanting to work with caps foreign to it. I had a german three piece that was this way as far as the handle only wanting to work with its own head. Anyway, pics below. I will ul better pics later if anyone cares. Can someone on here who has one post a pic of the underside of the cap?

 

[Mick]

I have one with a damaged base plate

 

[kcb5150]

What is wrong with it? They used a lot of different handles at this company. Handle is definitely le coq original on mine as they used that stubby knob. Could you let me know what is doing with your threading/cap underside when you have a chance?

 

[Mick]

Base plate on mine has been tweaked and bent

 

[kcb5150]

Hmm. I will take some better macros of mine in profile if you ever feel adventurous enough to repair the geometry. Pretty flat stock...

 

[taco8slo]

Turtle, yours looks like an "easy" fix, place it flat side down on some wood and bang it straight with a piece of wood and a hammer...or similar idea with different materials.

 

[Mick]

Turtle, yours looks like an "easy" fix, place it flat side down on some wood and bang it straight with a piece of wood and a hammer...or similar idea with different materials.

Been there.... done that..... got this.....

It appears that one of the bars that the razor blade sits on is "mashed" (not by me). I used a steel rod in a vice, put the base plate on it, and lightly tapped to bring the bulge down to flat.

The base plate is VERY soft metal. Maybe copper sheet.

It is going to take someone with metal working tools to do more than I can and at present the razor is not usable

 

[kcb5150]

Does your handle play nice with other caps?

 

[kcb5150]

The threads on mine are fine, no crossthreading, no mashed threads.

 

[the beav]

You two should share parts and make one razor. The question is who gets it.

 

[nemo]

You two should share parts and make one razor. The question is who gets it.

 

[alex2363]

nice one

 

[kcb5150]

I'm going to use that cap pic cropped and a bunch of assembled head pics for bst fodder and see where it gets me.. It looks like a bog standard european gillette old type clone cap more or less. Some of them have the bullet tips and some have the more boxed out ones such as this. The base plate is more or less what makes this razor special. It's really classic, aggressive french razor design.

 

[Zeppelinkarte]

Turtle,
Does your handle fit other caps, either Gillette or modern ones. If yes, I would buy the handle if that would help. Then you could sell the cap to kcb.

 

[kcb5150]

He should explore sending the plate to someone on this forum with metalworking experience to get it trued back up and have the two beams inside reset. These are not common at all in the states.

 

[kcb5150]

Hmm. They even made this comb in a two piece with it grafted to a hex handle and a long stem cap. Interesting...

 

[kcb5150]

Looking through the net, this company was pretty wild. They just seemed to throw any parts on hand around those baseplates and called it a day. I've seen 6 different handles so far, and a few different studs for the cap.

 

[kcb5150]

View attachment 327933

 

[kcb5150]

Another Le Coq cap.

 

[taco8slo]

Been there.... done that..... got this.....

It appears that one of the bars that the razor blade sits on is "mashed" (not by me). I used a steel rod in a vice, put the base plate on it, and lightly tapped to bring the bulge down to flat.

The base plate is VERY soft metal. Maybe copper sheet.

It is going to take someone with metal working tools to do more than I can and at present the razor is not usable

Bummer, I see what you mean, at least you tried.