Quote Originally Posted by FLYBYU44 View Post
Anyway I'm sure that when it came time to hone their razor that the owner didn't have 5 seperate stones to their disposal. They probably had a barber hone and a strop, possibly another strop loaded with mild abrasives. They likely honed it and stropped it and if it shaved half decent that was good. I feel blessed to have a Norton in 4000 and 8000 grit, that is more then they would have had to use.
They also didn't have eBay and probably didn't work on razors that had sat rusty and unused for a century

The stuff I sharpen (correction: try to sharpen) is stuff that might have been tossed aside as ruined in the old days