Thread: If all else fails,read the instructions AKA Shaving basics

Originally Posted by Substance

Prime old notes
Still not sure about that palm stropping bit by Boker even after watching Livi do it in videos also

The palm strop is the best you can get. If you nick it, it repairs itself. Brilliant.

Very good advice in those old razor instruction sheets! Please note that they said to keep the razor "quite flat" when stropping, not "completely flat." It is a subtle but very important distinction!

Originally Posted by JeffR

Very good advice in those old razor instruction sheets! Please note that they said to keep the razor "quite flat" when stropping, not "completely flat." It is a subtle but very important distinction!

I wouldn't read into it too much.
The standard barbering text from the 50's says:" Draw the razor edge perfectly flat and straight over
the surface of the strop."

I like the unskillful shaver bits in Boker and Torrey.

Thanks for the encouragement

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I wouldn't read into it too much.
The standard barbering text from the 50's says:" Draw the razor edge perfectly flat and straight over
the surface of the strop."

I agree that quite flat could easily have meant completely flat in the language of the time.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I wouldn't read into it too much.
The standard barbering text from the 50's says:" Draw the razor edge perfectly flat and straight over
the surface of the strop."

Yeah I see what you mean - the last article also says to "wipe razor quite dry", which wouldn't mean "almost dry."

Well, how about us poor folk who only made it to the second grade and can't read too well?

Do you think you could scan those for the vision impaired members?