Quote Originally Posted by BobH View Post
Yea, sorta makes you wonder. I am going to follow this too. IIRC from when I was a kid the barbers did not do 80-100 strokes on leather before shaving a customer. If I had to guess from failing memory it would less than 20 strokes.

Bob
Agree, Bob. Of course we don't know what they did (other than read girly magazines) in the dead times when there were no customers. I wonder if they stropped then, or freshen on their barber hones. IIRC my barber had 4 or 5 SRs lined up on a towel along with his scissors.