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.
Contents
Hone/Stone Related
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
