Thread: Famous Barber Manual

In the National Geographic special "Closer Shave", that you can find here,
they talk about a famous barber textbook from 1920: "Barbers Manual" from A.B. Moler.

I've discovered that is avaible now on ebay here in really good condition, and here, with a nice Fridour razor and strop.
It seems they don't send overseas, so I cannot buy it.

It would be nice if someone could buy this book, do a scan of the interesting chapter, and put the file in the help area in Straight Razor Place...
Any volunteer?

Ciao
Francesco

Thanks for the information Francesco. I'm sure it'll generate a lot of interest here.

The first one says worldwide as well or is it just Italy they won't ship to?

I have a barber's manual from 1950 and aside from it actually having photographs in it, the techniques and instructions don't appear to have changed. Very interesting.

If you can't get the 1920 book, we have copies of the 1960's book in the SRP library

I have a Moler barber manual that I've quoted many times in various threads. It is copyrighted 1911 and revised through 1926.

What info and what pages are you interested in? I'd be happy to post them for you.

Scott

I think it would be a good idea to scan the chapter on shave technique, hone and strops use, and put them on the help file area of this site, so everyone con use them for increase knowleadge.
That was the sense of my post.

Ciao
Francesco

Already in the help files is a copy from the "Standard" textbook of barbering from the 60's teaching stropping and honing. The info and technique is nearly identical to the 1920's Moler text. This is it: http://straightrazorpalace.com/compo...id,3/Itemid,3/

I could add the chapter on shave technique.


Scott

Yes, I have the '60 barber text, I found in the help area
It was just my curiosity: maybe the Moler's text have some additional information
The more we can read, the more we can learn...

Ciao
Francesco

The Standardized Textbook is a better source. I suspect that the Associated Barbers gathered much information from the Moler text for their standardized textbook (in fact I'd bet most of them learned their trade from Moler). Generally, what the Asscociated Barbers did was collect all of what they considered the "best" barbering information/ methods available (including Moler), and "standardized" it all into one source.

The Moler book is great as an historical/ collectors item, but it doesn't add much of anything different info-wise.

Scott

Done and Done, got the lot for 50$, Maybe a little on the high side but hey what the hell. That barbering text book looks pretty sweet. If you guys want i can scan the part on shave technique and post it even tough theire might not be much information that we dont already have. The razor looks to be pretty nice aswell.