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LOL, actually, it's not e-bay find, I find it locally and got it for practice.

Nenad

It took me about 10 hours to clean this razor. You can read my post about it here:

http://straightrazorpalace.com2/showthread.php?t=3691

Nenad

My bad, I mean that is what it looked like when I picked it up, now it's all fine and shiny... I will post some "after" pictures when I get some nice camera.

1939 was the heyday of straight...

“Das Rasiermesser” (The razor) has been written in 1939 and was published by Der Messerschmied Verlag. It goes into detail about production techniques, geometry, and it also addresses the increasing...

Tony, that is right. If the leather is glued to wood surface, there is little fear of creating beweled edge. But if stropped on hanging pasted strop, you got beweled edge.

Nenad

Here's my view on pastes. Using pasted strop creates beweled edge, as opposite to honing with finer stones (up to 15K+), wich keeps the edge wedge shaped. When you later hone this beweled edge, you...

Jim, the truth about pastes is that you DON'T actually need to use them. Their use originated from the old days of barbershops, when the barbers needed to refresh the edges after doing a LOT of...