Thread: The Truth About The Barber's Notch

Originally Posted by gssixgun

*As of this point in time no one has ever found a pre-1970's factory or advertising reference to the name "Barber's Notch" in the old references they are called either Hollow Point or Hollow Notch razors...

Regarding that, I have an interesting vintage piece from 1971 which may help explain how the "barber's" aka "babar's" qualifier entered into the picture. As legend has it, the king of the elephants had a razorburn problem. In order to solve this, babar's barber introduced him to the straight razor. As you can probably guess, his schnozz was always in the way. So Barb, Babar's Barber, suggested Babar let the Barber create a special design just for him in mind. Borrowing from what was soon to become known as the barber's notch, babar's barber barb and her brother-in-law bob the steel worker came up with a design which allowed for the passage of the razor around babar's prominent snout. See for yourself:



So the "Barber" in "Barber's Notch" is actually "Babar". If anything, hollow point razors with larger than average notches should be referred to as having a "Babar's Notch"

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

So the "Barber" in "Barber's Notch" is actually "Babar". If anything, hollow point razors with larger than average notches should be referred to as having a "Babar's Notch"

It was originally a hoglahoo point but they shortened it to hollow point ..... at least that's what I heard .

If it is really round (circular) isn't that the same as not having a point, or maybe more correctly a point in every direction?