Originally Posted by
normbal
This is truly crazy making.
What did the people making the straight razors do say, two hundred years ago?
There was no trade with China or Japan that I know of.
Not in a major way, maybe there was a small cadre of secret honers trading stones along the old silk route, like George Gurdjieff saw in his "Meetings with Remarkable Honers,"
but for the average barber of Saville, or Augsburg or Minsk, what method worked to hone a razor to simple day to day marketable use?
Is there a text somewhere referencing this?
I'm just a beginner, but damn, there's got to be a common man method that was widely known and used, not CRO2 or diamond paste or pricey coticules or Naniwa stones.
Anyone?