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You have to love the living history places. If you are ever up our way be sure and visit Old Fort William to get a glimpse of what life was like during the fur trade era.

Bob
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Yes, we tend to romanticize the good old days and tend to forget that they were far from good for the majority of people. Now you have people complaining about workplace health and safety laws and...

Yes, there is a big caveat attached to modern precision methods. You have to have tight quality control along the whole manufacturing process or you can and do turn out volumes of subpar product in a...

Yes, I heard years ago that there was a resurgence in the dying art of making thatched rooves for the same reason. There are a surprising number of arcane skill sets that do command top dollar.

Bob

In the case of razor making the older steels still do their jobs well. The newer steels are much better at the different tasks we put them to today. The newer scale making materials has benefits over...

I always wondered why there is a fascination in some circles with the modern formulations of steel types wrt making straight razors. The older types of steel have performed perfectly well over time....