Ron R
I survived a lathey foreman
Have to agree 100% but sometimes a person has to try even when there is good advice, I had some fun with a curved glass sharpener from the dirty thirties that I tried.Many of the old wedge razor sets and even some Gem-style SE sets came with a stropping attachment designed like you one you describe; you often find them in boxes of old razor parts and odds-and-ends lots on ebay. Ever Ready made a stropping tool that you threaded the strop through and used in the same way as an Auto Strop or a Wilkinson Empire razor.
Personally, I think taking the effort to sharpen a $.10 carbon blade (cheaper in bulk, and plentiful) is a poor return on your time investment.
Shaving Oddities!
I was buying some Vintage Gillette razors at a Antique store and the fellow who owned the store was showing me some scuttles when I came across this relic. The sharpener hone was patented in the 1930's(dirty thirties) so that could tell us that blades were expensive and scarce for folks who had...
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