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Shave With a Straight Razor: A Guide for Beginners
By John Davis
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A basic guide to getting started shaving with a straight razor. Simplified, modernized instructions. Seventeen Photos included showing proper techniques for honing and stropping. "A picture is worth a thousand words" and this guide provides multiple photographs for illustrating what would take pages to describe in words. It is intended to be easily read, and, provide helpful photographs in lieu of extensive text. We hope you enjoy the guide and find it useful.
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John Davis
Author, self-taught electrical engineering designer, worked for 50 plus years, finally retired and always wanted to write a book put his fingers to the keyboard. The words of this book poured out from his life experiences, lost loves, friends, grandparents and family. A fictional book with touches of true life and life long characters from his past.
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Shave With a Straight Razor - John Davis
Figure 1 - A 19th century amber, hand blown and etched, barber's bottle with gold guilt; a badger hair brush with hand-turned ebony handle; a 19th century Bavarian coal scuttle
shaving mug (hand painted); a contemporary razor with a Solingen blade and ebony handle; and a cake of shaving soap.
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Shave With a Straight Razor - A Beginning Guide
John Davis
Copyright 2012 Old Town Publishing
Smashwords Edition
Table of Contents
Beginning Guide to Using a Straight Razor
What you need to Get Started
Acquiring your Razor
Acquiring your Strop
Acquiring your Hone
Acquiring your Brush
Acquiring your Shaving Soap
Using Your Straight Razor:
Honing and Sharpening
Safety
Hone, strop and shave
Honing
Stropping
Lathering
Shaving
After Shave
Shaving Luxuries
Hot Towels
Shaving Mugs
Barber Bottles
Rain Water
Your Personal Space
Epilogue
Table of Figures
Figure 1 - A 19th century amber, hand blown and etched, barber's bottle with gold guilt; a badger hair brush with hand-turned ebony handle; a 19th century Bavarian coal scuttle
shaving mug (hand painted); a contemporary razor with a Solingen blade and ebony handle; and a cake of shaving soap.
Figure 2 - Straight razors with Solingen (German) blades and natural (ebony and bone) scales
Figure 3 - A horsehide strop with a linen surface
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