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Reformation Student
03-12-2008, 10:16 PM
The History Channel is airing a show on World's Sharpest. They covered the Japanese sword, Cutco cutlery and now it looks like they'll do a segment on double edge and straight razors.
Reformation Student
03-12-2008, 10:29 PM
They just showed a barber honing a straight razor on a barber's hone. He went really fast and used a finger to hold down and guide the tip of the razor. He also started at the heel at the top of the hone and the blade at maybe a 45-50 degree angle, came down and swept the razor from heel to tip in a curving motion. I'd not seen that technique used before.
iron maiden
03-12-2008, 10:39 PM
I wonder if Lynn saw that show.....that guy did it different than what I expected. I suppose it works...the customer looked like he got a pretty close shave.

The DE blade thing was interesting as well.
PalmettoB
03-12-2008, 11:02 PM
The honing looked okay, but the guy definitely needed a better stropping technique. It looked like he was pretty careless and not keeping the spine and edge on the strop at the same time.
iron maiden
03-12-2008, 11:09 PM
+1 on the stropping....it looked like that strop had seen a lot of abuse over the years as well.
sparky5693
03-12-2008, 11:10 PM
Sounds like a really cool show.
PalmettoB
03-12-2008, 11:18 PM
It was pretty cool, especially when they got to the industrial shredders. I've never seen a refrigerator get shredded before! :eek:
Sejanus
03-12-2008, 11:36 PM
Wish I could have seen it. We had a show about Mummys up here.
Lionhearted
03-13-2008, 12:15 AM
For those with satellite TV this program will be shown again at midnight Eastern. History Channel reruns most programs every couple of months. This one, Modern Marvels episode 614 (http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=276856), originally aired 10/11/07 and again on 01/17/08.

I've never owned a straight and know very little about them but I've had many barber shop shaves over the years. Most stropping I saw seemed to be mostly show for the customer. The razor got four or five fast strokes flipped back and forth each time on a very loosely held drooping strop attached to the chair. Some had a rhythm to it like shining shoes.

Richard
JayKay
03-13-2008, 12:41 AM
For those with cable, its on again on the history chanel at midnight.