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Here's a treat for you Billy Hukin grinding a blade here in Sheffield (1965), others pinning the scales, honing and finally Billy Hukin having a shave (1993) his technique is very different from many of us. No 'fancy' shaving soap just plain old bath soap :D
The late Ken Hawley talks to Billy as he shaves.
https://vimeo.com/268814380
That's a rare piece of film fantastic.
Interesting honing, also that's gonna be hard to stretch the skin with your fingers shaving like that, he does move his face to do so
highly interesting, wish there were more videos like this around
The other videos also seem very interesting
Saw that vid on another forum. Yes, interesting and he cuts through the BS surrounding modern shaving with using that boar brush and a bar of soap.
Bob
One of my shaving soaps is a bath bar of Gilchrist & Soames that I got on a Celebrity Cruise. It works just fine with a rich lather.
Really interesting. Thanks.
Love it, no BS and I he put a bevel and honed that razor in about 5 minutes....bevel setting stone, then onto one other, strop and done.....awesome!:)
Very interesting! Thanks for posting. Wish there was a whole series of these.
Someone here mentioned the practice of resting blades in another thread
Just after 15:00 they actually discuss it.
At around 12:16 in the video of Billy shaving he uses a stroke the comes down and sideways at the same time. Like the old Gillette glide stroke I suppose. You have to be pretty competent to use that stroke.
Bob
Which is why I don't use it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BobH
Well, it is doable, obviously, and I have used it but also tend not to as it is way to easy to slice yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by JP5
Bob
I love reading ingredient lists on labels. If you look at some hand soaps, you will find that the ingredient list is quite similar to triple-milled shaving soaps. They can contain stearic acid, tallow, shea butter, cocoa butter, etc. I have found a couple of such bar soaps that give a good shave. They are Yardley of London, and Irish Spring Signature for Men. However, the ingredient listing of plain Ivory soap is similar; I just never liked the scent of Ivory.
I have tried Castile soaps based on olive oil and do not like the performance of those for shaving.
Bu the way, these soaps for just for experimenting. I have a shave den full of great shave soaps and creams with more on the way.
I know. I've noticed the blade going across sometimes on longer strokes, but I'm not really confident enough to do it on purpose yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobH
I wonder if he was shaving with that little mirror so the other guy could film better or that was how he normally did it.
Yes, the scything stroke is one to use at your own peril, get it just a little bit wrong and a long red line will appear on your face.
It works for me South to North, ATG from my lower ear area to the under the chin, I have some omni-directional whiskers that grow there, only move that will take them out, but the way he did it, I flinched, but it works for him and he obviously knows what he's doing.....great video.
Where he tells about the guy pulling a hair out of his head and cutting it while holding it always reminds me this:
https://youtu.be/BZk-nIy9RY8?t=44
I used to do this scything stroke with great success until one day that little red line you talk about appeared. I haven’t used that stroke since and don’t figure I will again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
I always thought the scything stroke was when you rotated the blade around the pivot pin and the Gillette Slide was the simultaneous down and across movement of the blade.
Bob
I also use this kind of stroke on my neck. I have tried a million other strokes but only this particular one gives me a BBS.
The stroke you guys mention is the proper stroke for a straight razor.
Never shave by hitting the edge straight into the hair...slice it
Same way I was told to cut my bread and the likesQuote:
Originally Posted by Disburden
They told me "Don't push with your knife, cut/slice with your knife" Eye opener as a kiddo :D