Essay on the manufacture, choice, and management of a razor / [Ebenezer Rhodes].

  • Ebenezer Rhodes
Date:
1824
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Credit: Essay on the manufacture, choice, and management of a razor / [Ebenezer Rhodes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pletely matter of choice, that any observations upon it would be obviously superfluous. The strength or thickness, and, of consequence, the weight of what workmen term the tang, or the finger-hold of the blade, is likewise a circumstance worthy of notice. A requi¬ site proportion should be here preserved, otherwise the utility of the best manufactured Razor may be considerably diminished; if thick and. heavy, the weight of the cutting part of the blade is so much reduced, that great pressure is required to make it bear upon its work,—if thin and light, similar to the Razors manufactured in France, it cannot be held firm in the hand; each extreme should therefore be avoided: undue strength or weight in the handle may likewise produce the former of these effects. A question here naturally arises—How are the de¬ fects above alluded to, to be detected by persons un¬ accustomed to the manufacturing of Razors?—If the eye, which almost instantly observes any thing ap¬ proaching to disproportion in the parts, should, in this ' instance, be an insufficient guide, let the hand be re¬ sorted to, it may here prove a more competent director. Before a Razor is purchased, let it be tried in the same position it is held during the operation of shaving; if thin in the tang, it will soon be discovered, that it can¬ not be maintained in a cutting direction without a much stronger and firmer grasp than ought to be employed on so delicate an occasion; if thick and heavy, though it may be held more easily and pleasantly, it cannot fail to be observed, that the cutting part of the blade will be so much over-balanced by the weight of the hand-hold, that here again, though from a diametrically opposite cause, considerable exertion will be necessary to apply the Razor with suitable effect. Sensible of the advantage of a firm, and at the same time an easy hold of a Razor, some cutlers have re¬ commended, that the sides at least, if not the whole of
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