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Good analogy, to a guy with a mustache, a barber's notch makes trimming under the center of the nose area easier.:rock: BTW, I'm not saying that is why they made it .... but it does make it easier...

Just to make myself clear ....... :angel: This is what I'm talkin' about ;

UNDER a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and...

I know next to nothing about the actual making of razors or knives but I've always had a preference for the forged blade , as opposed to stock removal. This is a contentious issue on knife forums and...

Lee, I guess you and me are just going to have to settle for filthy :roflmao

That, if you'll pardon the pun, is the point. Any design feature in an article of cutlery was deliberate and served a purpose to the end user or it wouldn't have been there ..... IMHO. As for...

From manah's website, a PDF catalog and history of Joseph Rodgers & Sons here . I haven't looked at it in awhile, and don't know that it will shed any light on the debate, but Neil's post brought it...

I know one thing, having worked in factories briefly in my younger days ..... productivity is , and always has been paramount. Some forty years ago I worked for "piece work" in factories in...

My idea that the small notches may have been there to hold one end of the blade in a fixture for some step in the manufacturing process comes from my limited experience with milling machines and...

Neil, I need you to send those razors to me so I can see how they work above my mustache and report back with the results. :p

Kidding aside, the first thought when I saw the early ones with a very...

Here ya go ..... :rofl2:77320

Lee if you would take your spooned spine and do alternating circles on a coticule ... with slurry of course .... let us know how long it takes to set the bevel on that one we'd greatly appreciate it....

It was originally a hoglahoo point but they shortened it to hollow point ..... at least that's what I heard . :popcorn:

The point is ..... Glen's post listing the various styles illustrates ... the point .... that they were modified with a purpose in mind. IMO anyway. A Spanish or Oblique, a hollow, or a spike. The...

Here are three examples a TI, a W&B and a Waterville Cutlery. Mystic chords of memory .... The one with the wooden scales is the TI and I thought, as I posted above, that the notch was placed lower...

Good point ..... no pun intended .... I experienced this very thing in the past week. I recently bought the latest TI silverwing limited edition with barber's notch. It is perfect for getting around...

How many times has this come up in the last few years ? I have joked and said that I thought a drunken grinder at Wade & Butcher miscued and accidentally notched the end of a wedge. The crew saw it...