Thread: Free Book PDF from 1905: "Shaving Made Easy"

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Well I hope your grandpa lives many more years but you may get it eventually. In the meanwhile getting a sure enough shave ready straight razor would be a real pleasure for your shaving experience to come.

Yeah I hope to find a decent one soon.

Been re-reading this little booklet recently. This really is a lot of good stuff and it gets better re-reading it. I probably should print it out to have it handy.

Thank you . Great read. Amazing how things evolve.

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Thanks, Dave. Would you say the edge is better for having used it?

I do think it's a mild abrasive that smoooths it out a bit. I am currently trying to run a bit of an experiment where I am keeping track of stropping and trying to find if lengthens time between having to use CrO2. If the experiments works I will post the results.

Great read. Thanks for the book. It should help a great deal.

Thanks from a newbe in VA. I look forward to studying this old book.

Read it cover to cover last week. Using the tips and techniques this week. Thanks!

Originally Posted by LuckyCynic

Heh, no problem, guys. Now while reading the majority of this, it seems 3 big things come to surface in my mind. First, the writing style is different. This book is very direct and almost aggressive- especially in its tone towards safety razors, hehe. Second, it seems that razors and other paraphernalia had different care instructions that some items do these days. For example, rounding a square point straight blade to a slightly rounded one on the edge of a hone. :O

And third, it seems like some info is just a tad dated. This isn't a shock of course but there we have it.

Now for those of us who want to be further along... check out THIS book!
Choice readings. 1 2 3 4

Wow, another great read! I searched for a few other barber books and got a nice list. It will take awhile to find the relevant ones, and even longer to sort out the better ones from the worst.

Internet Archive Search: barber

Already found a few that look promising.
Barber Instructor and Toilet Manuel
Illustrated book of instruction, the Robinson system of barber colleges (1906)

Thank you for great link.
For those who were interested in magnesium chalk in novadays is far easier to get it from climbing shop as climbing chalk.

What about just using normal chalk? Would that make a difference to the edge?
I ask because for one of my classes I actually have a blackboard (the others use whiteboards) and I wanted to steal a piece of chalk but didn't really have anything to use it for.