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

• A Review of Factory Swaty Development
• Pike Strop-Hone Restoration

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
• A PDF file on shaving
• Aftershaves & shaving soaps

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 Catalog of Sharpening Stones April 2013
• 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

Misc. Information

• Knife sharpening experiment
• Razor Central- A PDF file on razor use & care
• Straight razor care
• An article on the history & use of the straight razor in general

• The Practice And Science Of Standard Barbering from 1967
• Razor Blades & Shaving by Robert Martin, Popular Science Monthly October 1931
• Norton Hones booklet.jpg
• Swaty Alumin Instructions.jpg
• Thoughts About Steel