Thread: School to teach men how to shave. Article 1904.

An article form 1904, about a school to teach men how to shave.

Martin, these articles you dig up are fantastic! Please keep 'em coming.

That is why most of us are here! Thanks, Martin!!!

Excellent article! Thank you! Yes! Yes! Yes! His description of strop tension and elevating the spine is exactly the way to strop a razor! Using that method, I have maintained my brand new Dovo razor for over two years, not once honing it on a stone from the day I cracked the seal on it's box!

Very cool....is the school still open ? ;-)

Originally Posted by Donut

Very cool....is the school still open ? ;-)

Yes, but it changed its name to Straight Razor Place a while back...

Thank you Martin for posting.

It is a very interesting read and the explanation on stropping is in fact quite interesting.

I wonder how many people strop with the spine raised?

Where was this article taken from?

Well, I take that very little do since it is recommended to place the spine flat on the strop by everyone.

Originally Posted by Grump

Thank you Martin for posting.

It is a very interesting read and the explanation on stropping is in fact quite interesting.

I wonder how many people strop with the spine raised?

Where was this article taken from?

I believed the original was in a newspaper or magazine.

To strop with an angle and not flat on the back, I do so with my wedges : and it's really a GREAT solution (I do the same by "taping" the back of my wedges with several layers of tape while honing) !

This teacher known its art ! I have search tow years these solutions by making trials, mistakes : and all the informations were in this article !

Truth, the old time barbers are great "secret keepers" ! I believe also that hollow ground razors was design to avoid these problems, and therefor everybody could maintain the razor sharp without these "secret barber tips"