Thread: Honing now vs long ago

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Okay so going back farther,,, another lesser know fact is that the first wheel was invented to grind razors. Again man made but of natural substance. The story goes that they had to make about 30 before they finally got a hole in 1 so 2 guys could hold a stick through the middle of it while one guy spun it for the grinder. They realized it was to much effort to sharpen sea shell so they set it down and forgot about it. Mr. Barrow later came by and found it with the stick still in it and well .. the rest is history.

That's about the time in history when the fellows started having 'singeing parties'.
they would sit about the fire taking flaming sticks out and burning off hairs of one another, extinguishing the flames with water heaved and soothing with animal fat. Much grog was consumed! Ahhh! The good old days!