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...and because they're mean, dangerous, and cause a lot of crop damage...

Here's a direct link to the Mark Twain SOTD article, from the August 1871 issue of "The Galaxy"

About Barbers

If you go back in the SOTD forum a month or so I posted a link to an article Mark Twain wrote about his local barber's shaves. Besides being terribly funny, it's also likely to contain more than a...

Yes. It's not unusual that my razors topple hairs great at 4k, less so at 8k, and have real trouble at 15k+. Several of my sharpest and best razors are like this, including the Feather, my...

This is a great idea if it's useful, but I'm skeptical.

The relevance of the HHT is dependent on two semi-independent variables, the quality of individual head hair (or arm hair), and the quality...

Now if we only had standardized beards!

Or in my case:



Ponder the error of your ways, then...



Contemplate the error of your ways a little more...

I guess I'm just odd. Once the razor passes the armhair tests then I'll take a test swipe on my dry face. The reasoning is that this is generally how I use the feather nowadays (after shaving I...

I tried that. Apparently that's where she draws the line...

Hear hear! The hair test isn't a pass/fail test, it's more of a grade, and exactly what it means varies from person to person. I use the hair on my arm, and find that the first hair to pop is the...