As a straight razor shaver I found this very interesting. One thing I do which you didn't talk about is preparing my face with a hot towel, just like barbers do. You also didn't talk about the grain of the beard. Knowing the grain is important as a really clean shave comes from cutting the whiskers both with, against, and sometimes across the grain. My beard is tough enough that I have to cut in all directions to get a baby-bottom-smooth (BBS) shave
Great job! I wish you’d have talked about the homing process and angle of the blade. Still, this is one of the best I’ve seen on straight razor shaving - in any century. Hats off!!
1. I worked with a guy who showed up one day with a piece, about 3/4" long and 3/8" wide and 1/4" deep, parallel to his jaw line, missing out of his face directly below his left eye and even with the end of his mouth, He had got a straight razor somewhere and decided to "try it out". 2. A friend of mine went to a place in Charleston SC for a straight razor shave. All the cool stuff happened- hot towel, brushed on lather, etc. The barber was a woman, The shave took about 15 minutes. Then, she proceeded to use a single edge safety razor which took about 1/2 hour to get a really close shave. My friend's beard grows like weeds but after this shave he didn't need to shave again for about a week, 3. My son takes his boys to this same shave for their 16th birthday. 4. Most of us should shave really well on Friday before an encampment.
I live in Sheffield. Two of my kids were born here (both grown adults now) I was born not far from here too. I'm also an C18th reenactor. I can't believe I'm watching a vid of someone using an original C18th razor, made here, to do the job it was designed for. Go Sheffield Steel!!! I do have a couple of questions however please. Did women every shave the British soldiers to your knowledge? How was the shaving done on shave days and by that I mean, did the soldiers shave themselves or was there a barber for them or did they shave one another? Thanks.
Go Sheffield steel indeed. In addition to the Sheffield razors, some of our members also regularly use shears made in Sheffield in the 18th century for tailoring purposes. Although, we have no documentation of women shaving men in the 18th century, there was a cartoon from John Dixon published by Carrington Bowles in 1770 called the Female Barber that depicts a woman shaving a solider. More than likely, soldiers in barracks or camp were shaving themselves or their comrades. The print, A Camp Scene, from 1784 (currently in The British Museum) depicts one solider shaving another in camp. Many soldiers had occupations before enlisting in the British army, some of them may have been barbers. Although the rosters of the 17th Regiment that we have studied do not have any soldier's occupation listed as barber, there are rosters for the regiment from different years that we have not studied yet that may include a barber
Fantastic video! Thank you for posting it. Hopefully I will never need to shave my chin, but knees might be a pretty close experience... (All you 18th century gentlemen probably don't need to know that.) How frequently do you sharpen and strop your razor?
I would figure the steel back in the colonial days was inferior to current steel so the edge retention was lacking. I bet you would have to resharpen the razor every 3 shaves or so. You strop the razor before each shave. At least 20-30 times on fine leather.
I was hoping you would try to say pogonotomie, wich is the name that Jean-Jacques Perret invented for the art of shaving! It is a good wrap video about facial hair care. Thank you!
As a straight razor shaver I found this very interesting. One thing I do which you didn't talk about is preparing my face with a hot towel, just like barbers do. You also didn't talk about the grain of the beard. Knowing the grain is important as a really clean shave comes from cutting the whiskers both with, against, and sometimes across the grain. My beard is tough enough that I have to cut in all directions to get a baby-bottom-smooth (BBS) shave
i know you don't really post here but i keep coming back to this
Great job! I wish you’d have talked about the homing process and angle of the blade. Still, this is one of the best I’ve seen on straight razor shaving - in any century. Hats off!!
Excellent presentation. only wish you didn’t speed up difficult areas where I need technique
Awesome stuff!
This is amazing, thank you
This is an awesome video. Great work.
Thanks, i learned here.
1. I worked with a guy who showed up one day with a piece, about 3/4" long and 3/8" wide and 1/4" deep, parallel to his jaw line, missing out of his face directly below his left eye and even with the end of his mouth, He had got a straight razor somewhere and decided to "try it out".
2. A friend of mine went to a place in Charleston SC for a straight razor shave. All the cool stuff happened- hot towel, brushed on lather, etc. The barber was a woman, The shave took about 15 minutes. Then, she proceeded to use a single edge safety razor which took about 1/2 hour to get a really close shave. My friend's beard grows like weeds but after this shave he didn't need to shave again for about a week,
3. My son takes his boys to this same shave for their 16th birthday.
4. Most of us should shave really well on Friday before an encampment.
I live in Sheffield. Two of my kids were born here (both grown adults now) I was born not far from here too. I'm also an C18th reenactor. I can't believe I'm watching a vid of someone using an original C18th razor, made here, to do the job it was designed for. Go Sheffield Steel!!!
I do have a couple of questions however please. Did women every shave the British soldiers to your knowledge? How was the shaving done on shave days and by that I mean, did the soldiers shave themselves or was there a barber for them or did they shave one another?
Thanks.
Go Sheffield steel indeed. In addition to the Sheffield razors, some of our members also regularly use shears made in Sheffield in the 18th century for tailoring purposes. Although, we have no documentation of women shaving men in the 18th century, there was a cartoon from John Dixon published by Carrington Bowles in 1770 called the Female Barber that depicts a woman shaving a solider. More than likely, soldiers in barracks or camp were shaving themselves or their comrades. The print, A Camp Scene, from 1784 (currently in The British Museum) depicts one solider shaving another in camp. Many soldiers had occupations before enlisting in the British army, some of them may have been barbers. Although the rosters of the 17th Regiment that we have studied do not have any soldier's occupation listed as barber, there are rosters for the regiment from different years that we have not studied yet that may include a barber
Fantastic video! Thank you for posting it. Hopefully I will never need to shave my chin, but knees might be a pretty close experience... (All you 18th century gentlemen probably don't need to know that.) How frequently do you sharpen and strop your razor?
I would figure the steel back in the colonial days was inferior to current steel so the edge retention was lacking. I bet you would have to resharpen the razor every 3 shaves or so. You strop the razor before each shave. At least 20-30 times on fine leather.
I was hoping you would try to say pogonotomie, wich is the name that Jean-Jacques Perret invented for the art of shaving!
It is a good wrap video about facial hair care. Thank you!
I rather use this in apocalypse
yep, chin always the hardest to shave.
How would women shave? Or did they shave that much of there legs?
Shaving legs wasn’t popular until about the 1920s
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Awesome video, just one main thing that bugs me: you sigh every 2 second, even while speaking, it's incredibly distracting