Thread: Straight razor shave in 1880?

I had s silk-smooth shave with my Thiers-Issard Historic Snake-wood 6/8 this morning. It cut a hanging hair with a little "ping" easily after getting a lot of attention on a Naniwa 12 K and a SRD strop.

I was thinking about how was a straight shave back then, in the good old days when a Straight was the usual way of shaving? Mr. John Smith, waking up in the middle of nowhere, picking up his old Straight, no softening of beard oil, warm water, TOBS Avocado cream, Simpson Chubby brush, five different sharpening stones and diamond pastes on his strop for his razor.

Probably a different kind of shave back then