Well, that hopefully intrigued you guys!
First of all, pardon my lack of knowledge of American history of the early 1800s - I know you had recently won independence from us lot.
The gentlemen in the title were leading respective armies against one another, I know that much.
Anyway, I recently acquired a lovely (what I would estimate) late 1700s early 1800s razor. It's pretty small and the blade is only a half inch wide, it looked to be little used and after some buffing came up lovely. It just needed a very light hone to give a fantastic edge.
I used it for the first time about a week ago - just for novelty value really but wow, was I surprised - it gives probably the best shave of all of my collection, from Joseph Rodgers to Thomas Turner, to Gotta to, well anything really.
So, it's official, a gentleman of that period of over 200 years ago would have achieved a shave as good as that from anything produced since. This amazes me, it really does.
First of all, pardon my lack of knowledge of American history of the early 1800s - I know you had recently won independence from us lot.
The gentlemen in the title were leading respective armies against one another, I know that much.
Anyway, I recently acquired a lovely (what I would estimate) late 1700s early 1800s razor. It's pretty small and the blade is only a half inch wide, it looked to be little used and after some buffing came up lovely. It just needed a very light hone to give a fantastic edge.
I used it for the first time about a week ago - just for novelty value really but wow, was I surprised - it gives probably the best shave of all of my collection, from Joseph Rodgers to Thomas Turner, to Gotta to, well anything really.
So, it's official, a gentleman of that period of over 200 years ago would have achieved a shave as good as that from anything produced since. This amazes me, it really does.
