I was bored the other day and as things are these days, when you have nothing to do, you can always find something interesting on YouTube. I have a wide variety of interests, and I find it interesting to learn something new through other's experience.
I love watching forge masters at work, making knives and swords, one of my favourite series to watch on tv is Forged In Fire. I have gained so much understanding about the process that I often find myself shouting at the contestants when they are making, what I would consider stupid decisions. Typically it's easy to criticise, never having done any forging myself. I know that in reality it would be much more difficult to do, especially under pressure like they do.
So to get to the point, I searched for videos about forging razors, and I was really disappointed. Very few videos on the subject. Apart from the few masters like Jerry Stark, it would seem that most of these smiths have very little understanding about razors.
Just watching them, it was clear to me that even while they are masters of their craft, in general, straight razors are in a class of their own.
Is it a lost art, bound to disappear soon?
I hope not!
I love watching forge masters at work, making knives and swords, one of my favourite series to watch on tv is Forged In Fire. I have gained so much understanding about the process that I often find myself shouting at the contestants when they are making, what I would consider stupid decisions. Typically it's easy to criticise, never having done any forging myself. I know that in reality it would be much more difficult to do, especially under pressure like they do.
So to get to the point, I searched for videos about forging razors, and I was really disappointed. Very few videos on the subject. Apart from the few masters like Jerry Stark, it would seem that most of these smiths have very little understanding about razors.
Just watching them, it was clear to me that even while they are masters of their craft, in general, straight razors are in a class of their own.
Is it a lost art, bound to disappear soon?
I hope not!