Hello,
I'm new to this forum, from Denmark, please bear with me.
I have about 12 knives with 830 silver handles and steel blades (I think it is steel). The type is common in Scandinavia and possibly elsewhere. but seems to be different from what I have seen with US and British silver/steel knives (apart from them being mostly 925/sterling).
I have separated the blades from the handles. The attached pictures show the blade part and the attached "rod" part, as I call it here (the rod parts used to be "wrapped" inside the handle parts of the knives). The rod part consists of a core bar, that I guess is of steel (like the blade), and some shiny material around it, that I suppose is used to attach/hold the handle and blade together and act like a filler or some material for soldering.
The shiny material is dull in places and to my untrained eye looks a bit like lead. If lead, I should take my precautions, but what is it made of?
Thanks a lot for any ideas or suggestions!
I'm new to this forum, from Denmark, please bear with me.
I have about 12 knives with 830 silver handles and steel blades (I think it is steel). The type is common in Scandinavia and possibly elsewhere. but seems to be different from what I have seen with US and British silver/steel knives (apart from them being mostly 925/sterling).
I have separated the blades from the handles. The attached pictures show the blade part and the attached "rod" part, as I call it here (the rod parts used to be "wrapped" inside the handle parts of the knives). The rod part consists of a core bar, that I guess is of steel (like the blade), and some shiny material around it, that I suppose is used to attach/hold the handle and blade together and act like a filler or some material for soldering.
The shiny material is dull in places and to my untrained eye looks a bit like lead. If lead, I should take my precautions, but what is it made of?
Thanks a lot for any ideas or suggestions!