I was talking to an 85 year old barber today at the barbershop and he told me something interesting. He may have been pulling my leg but thought you guys might like to hear it. He said that when he started out is the business sometimes they would get a razor that was to hard and was difficult to sharpen, so he said that when that happened they would get thier wife to make a pan of cornbread and when she pulled it out of the oven they would break off a section of the hard crust a dipose of it and then push the razors blade inside to hot loaf of cornbread and leave it there till the loaf cooled and when they would remove the blade the heat from the loaf would have softend the blade just enough that it would be easier to sharpen.
Now was this a talltail? well I don't know but you make what you want of it.