Originally Posted by
JimmyHAD
Not to belabor the point but .... in the 1980s I used to collect straight razors. I went to many, many barber shops and asked the then old barbers if they had any old razors they wanted to sell. I went to shops all over north jersey. Newark, Patterson, Belleville, Kearny .... on and on. Those old guys favored full hollow dubl ducks, FWE Specials and Leaders, and other full hollow razors. I don't surmise this, I asked and they told me. They had been professionals for 40 or 50 years back when they frequently gave every Tom, Dick and Harry shaves. They probably didn't analyze the relationship between edge, grind and whisker much more than using what worked best for them day after day, year after year.