Thread: How did they used to do it?

I've always done pocket knives that way too. One thing that occurs to me is that if there had been fixtures, such as tubes over the spine, they probably would turn up in razor literature, and in antique shops, estate sales, old ads for barber/razor supplies.

Also I think that straight razor users of those times would be amused, or surprised, at how seriously some of us take this shaving sport. Did they have HHT 1-10 in the nineteenth century ? Did the average shaver have multiple razors and a battery of stones from all over the world ? I think we have a lot more free time and disposable income than those folks back then, but I could be wrong (you know the rest).

The Japanese name 6" veins of stones on the sides of a mountain...