Quote Originally Posted by Neil Miller View Post
I don't subscribe to the theory that it was for opening the razor one-handed. Why couldn't the tail be used, if you absolutely had to hold something so resolutely with the other hand that you could't even bring yourself to put it down to open the razor?

I think that a more likely explanation is that it helped shave up close to and around things like ears, nostrils, etc.

How, exactly, does it help to do that?



I've heard that explanation before, but looking at teh geometry of a barber's notch, i cannot see how it would in any way facilitate any of these manuevers...


The baber's notch is an enigma, unexplainable, a mystery, a myth....