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08-10-2010, 03:14 AM #1Member
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Online book for newbies
Saw the following book online for new shavers:
http://ia360618.us.archive.org/2/ite...asyw0020th.pdf
I looked through it and thought that it was pretty cool. Enjoy.
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08-11-2010, 01:58 AM #2Grasshopper
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Hi,
Cool Find.
- Mike
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08-11-2010, 04:17 AM #3Member
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Glad you liked it, Mike.
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08-11-2010, 12:33 PM #4Grasshopper
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Hi,
Thanks for sharing your find. It really puts a lot of info in one place.
- Mike
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08-11-2010, 02:55 PM #5
Great find. I learned from it. Thanks!
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08-11-2010, 03:16 PM #6The Assyrian
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Hello, diamondtim:
Yes, that's an educational book. Thank you for posting the link.
Regards,
Obie
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08-11-2010, 03:48 PM #7Senior Member
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I got a lot of help from this one as well:
The Art of the Straight Razor Shave
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08-29-2010, 07:41 PM #8Senior Member
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Those are great books. The one from The Library of Congress was very informative. It did seem to contradict some things that I have been reading, mostly the lather part, but the soaps are different now-a-days from back in 1905.
The info in the book makes perfect sense and I am going to try and incorporate the instructions from the book and other readings into my practice, maybe I will be able to get some real lather
instead of bubbly soap for once and not nick myself 
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08-30-2010, 02:45 PM #9Junior Member
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08-30-2010, 04:16 PM #10Large Member
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"Most men have the idea that honing is a difficult operation and should be undertaken only by expert cutlers or barbers. Very few seem to think that they can hone there own razors. How this impression became current, it is difficult to say. We venture to assert, however, that honing a razor is at least as easy as stropping it. In this case as in many others, the difficulty arises from supposing there is a difficulty."
Quite a useful statement that a few here could do with remembering perhaps? Sometimes the ability to sharpen a razor can seem to be surrounded by rather too much mystique, I think. Also, I can't help but suspect that a certain amount of this is simply propaganda.
Thanks for posting.
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