Originally Posted by
JimmyHAD
The 1961 barber manual points out that some barbers like linen, and some do not. The same manual instructs using leather only immediately after honing, and linen/leather before and after the shave.
So I asked Lynn Abrams, who has probably honed more razors than any man alive ....... or dead ..... and he hits the linen after the hone to clean the edge, then the leather. Me personally, I'm a linen/leather guy. Like Bob said above ....... the real stuff ....... natural linen made from flax.