Thread: For Barbers Use Only

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

My personal opinion is that they sold "For Barber's Only" as a sales attraction. They didn't really mean it. They hoped it would attract everybody. They realized that stamping "Only" was hurting sales to non barbers so they changed the stamp to "For Barber's Use". That is only IMHO. Here is a thread I posted with pix about finally getting a nice FBO.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...bers-only.html

When you want to do a search ...... go to advanced search, look at the screen and on the top left of the text box you'll see 'Search Single Content Type' and 'Search Multiple Content Type'. Chose search single content and you'll probably get along with the search function better than in the past.

Thanks, that solved my search issues!

On topic the only thing I can think of to be better for barbers than the rest of us is what Pixelfixed wrote about larger blades.
I thought they might have harder tempering, last longer but will require expert honing.
The reason I'm asking is that I've got an "For Barbers' Use" Japanese Western a few days ago, Prince 1500 Chemical Steel and it's hard as a rock.

I guess that it was a marketing trick, maybe to make the buyer feel, whats good for a barber cant be wrong for me :-)

Originally Posted by Lemur

Thanks, that solved my search issues!

On topic the only thing I can think of to be better for barbers than the rest of us is what Pixelfixed wrote about larger blades.
I thought they might have harder tempering, last longer but will require expert honing.
The reason I'm asking is that I've got an "For Barbers' Use" Japanese Western a few days ago, Prince 1500 Chemical Steel and it's hard as a rock.

We need a Pic,you know the rulz man

Originally Posted by Lemur

Thanks, that solved my search issues!

On topic the only thing I can think of to be better for barbers than the rest of us is what Pixelfixed wrote about larger blades.
I thought they might have harder tempering, last longer but will require expert honing.
The reason I'm asking is that I've got an "For Barbers' Use" Japanese Western a few days ago, Prince 1500 Chemical Steel and it's hard as a rock.

Y'know I think another consideration may have been to counter the more frequent honing a barber, shaving customers daily, would have to do over time. Also the barber may have had one of those traveling honemeisters with the wagon and the grindstone come by and redo their razors. Referring to honewear, a 10/8 would last a lot longer than a 6/8. Barbers in the 20th century seem to have favored 5 and 6/8 blades. I guess for the lighter weight and easier maneuverability. Anyway, I'm glad they made the FBU and FBO. So cool to shave with a 150 year old razor.

Like Jimmy mentioned i have never seen a barber's manual that recommends a large blade, most 5/8, 6/8, are mentioned. Perhaps historically barbers in those days prefered large blades........

I wondered about this because I can see some designs being better for barbers than self-shavers, but most of those never received any "for barber's use" label.

Barbers tended to use what they learned on. Once hollow ground became popular few wanted the old wedges and such. They were backward and hard to maintain. Schools did the modern thing. It was mainly the old timers who learned with wedges and part wedges who continued to use them. Also don't forget barbers were in a hurry and wanted to do as many clients as possible to make more money and the hollow grinds were smaller, lighter and more maneuverable which translates to faster.

As far as the barbers use thing I would imagine it was a marketing ploy though originally they might have been marketed for professional use and that changed over time.