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    Default Sheffield razor grinding and a shave !

    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
    The late Ken Hawley talks to Billy as he shaves.

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    That's a rare piece of film fantastic.
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    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
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    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.

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    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.
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    Really interesting. Thanks.

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    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!

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    Very interesting! Thanks for posting. Wish there was a whole series of these.
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    Someone here mentioned the practice of resting blades in another thread
    Just after 15:00 they actually discuss it.
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    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.

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