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Raising the razor slightly for the final strokes (ie - secondary or micro-bevel, as we now call it) was practised by many before Holzapffels time. Benjamin Kingsbury, the Court Barber, wrote about...

Has anyone seen this link? It metions the honing of microtome knives in which a cylinder of metal with a lengthwise split in it was slipped over the spine, much as theorised above. The diameter of...