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Just watched High Plains Drifter again. lol. The way he strops his razor is something else. It looks so badass I think the razor would be scared not to get sharp. haha. Note the flimsy shaving foam....

Could I also get the recipe for the beans? Sounds delicious, and 1880ish?

Matheus, great post. Why do you have a ball of lard?

Nice pics, Engine. I like that scene in High Plains Drifter. I love the old westerns too.
It wouldn't make very good mercantile sense to price a razor beyond the reach of the very men they were...

Deeter, any chance you can get the recipe?

Don't forget you can get a quite acceptable shave off a 1k. (Worth mentioning, I did it myself the other day just to check something, and the thrill of it actually working quite well more than...

That's skilled labour, but what about for the educated? Who were probably more in need of razors than blacksmiths and labourers.

Just today in the paper there was mention of one of the elites in...

And for many people today that's 30 mins work. Not everyone, but many.

Of interest the 'Italian Oil Hones'. Have they been discussed before? There's some pretty fancy things going on in that catalogue. While I don't disagree with Rezdog, I don't think everyone was poor...

Maybe it happened at the same time, but you guys went as free spirits, we were mostly sent as prisoners. Culture changes but ever so slowly.
Interestingly, I was talking to another member recently...

Why is it that you guys (US and Canada) don't know about these things? I thought there were loads of 'household economy' type books from frontier times which tell you how to make and do everything. ...

yes indeed. and it's still a challenge years later, which is the really fun part. Always something to enjoy and learn.

A cupful of water. Now there is a challenge.