Help Files

Below are PDF files from various sources that have been uploaded to Straight Razor Place. If there is a PDF file that you feel is beneficial and you would like to see it uploaded, then reach out to one of the Mentors or Moderators for assistance.

Hone/Stone Related

• Swaty instructions

Stropping Related

• Linen information
• Stropping Information
• Stropping videos by Alan Davis of SRP
• File:Help Files Videos Superfly stropping.avi
• File:Help Files Videos Norbert Schick Stropping.mpg
• Image of a four sided strop

Shaving Related

• Essay on barber's razors, hones & strops from 1895
• Shaving Instructions taken from a textbook
• Shaving tips from Muehle-Pinsel
• Shaving tips from Muehle-Pinsel in English & German
• A chart on the many aspects involved in shaving
• The Art Of The Straight Razor Shave- Basic Guide
• Notes on the basics of shaving
• Shaving Made Easy- A book from 1905
• Shaving videos
• Henckels instruction sheet
• Demonstrating the Scything motion
• Shaving diagram # 1
• Shaving diagram # 2
• Blade angle, to skin diagram
• Robeson Shave Guide
• A Straight Razor Place art logo

Honing Related

• A barbering textbook on honing & stropping from 1961
• The Art Of Honing And Shaving from 1884
• Razor sharpening & using tips
• Diamond Compound Standard Availability
• Norton brochure on grit data
• A history of the Norton Pike Manufacturing Company
• A guide to pyramid honing on Norton stones
• Information on the Toishi waterstone
• Information concerning diamond pastes & their conflicting grit sizes
• Honing videos
• Norbert Schick honing video
• Honing motion
• X Stroke on a Norton 4/8K hone
• Blade position on a hone
• Swaty Instructions Page 1
• Swaty Instructions Page 2
• A chart showing T.I. paste analysis
• A Norton micron conversion chart
• A photo showing proper honing
• Photo of a stropped edge
• Honing diagrams

Razor Manufacturers

• Henckels catalog
• German manufacturing history
• Dovo information
• Puma information
• A photo showing different models of Puma razors

Restoration Related

• Celluloid Information
• Information pertaining to ivory, plastics, bone & more
• An article on plastics
• How to identify plastics
• Handle/Scale making by Mike Thomson
• The Physical properties of common woods by Oliver Seely
• The anatomy of a straight razor
• File:Help Files Permanent Archive ID PLASTICS IVORY BONES MORE.pdf

Misc. Information

• File:Help Files Knifessharpeningexperiment.pdf
• File:Help Files General Information Ebay Names 04-17-08 PDF.pdf
• File:Help Files 1961 Barbering Text - Shaving.pdf
• File:Help Files Permanent Archive Great Straight Info Razor Central Manual.pdf
• File:Help Files Permanent Archive Barbering Textbooks Barbbook lrg.pdf
• File:Help Files Permanent Archive Great Straight Info 1902 Sears Catalog Razors Intro.pdf
• File:Help Files Permanent Archive Great Straight Info Straight Razor Care.pdf
• File:Help Files Permanent Archive Great Straight Info Straight Razor History & Details.pdf
• File:Help Files Permanent Archive Soaps & Aftershaves Shaving soap and aftershave.pdf
• File:Help Files Standard Barbering 1967.pdf
• File:Photos-reveal-unsuspecting-facts 1931.pdf 
• Norton Hones booklet.jpg
• Swaty Alumin Instructions.jpg