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You throw away a razor blade every week or two, thinking it has gone dull and worn out. But here is something that will change how you look at that blade. It is most likely not worn out at all. It is barely used. The steel in it has months of good shaving left, and you are tossing it in the trash after a handful of shaves, buying a new one, and doing it all over again next week, spending a small fortune over the years on blades that were never truly done.
I keep up this Lancaster County place with my own hands, the way my people always have, and the first rule of that life is that you maintain a thing rather than throw it away and buy another. A razor blade is just a small tool, a little blade of steel, and like any blade it can be kept sharp rather than thrown out the moment it pulls. The old barbers knew this better than anyone, and what they did every single day is the secret I am sharing with you.
Here is what I walk you through in this one:
✓ Why a razor blade does not dull from shaving at all, it rusts from sitting wet in your bathroom

✓ The old barber's stropping secret, straightening the fine bent edge back true instead of grinding it

✓ How to strop your modern blade on a pair of old jeans, twenty strokes a side, backward only

✓ The one firm rule, spine first and edge trailing, never the edge into the cloth

✓ Keeping the blade dry between shaves, the shake, the towel, and dry storage that stops the rust

✓ One drop of plain mineral oil to bring back the glide when the strip wears out

✓ The weekly half-minute vinegar soak that pulls off the hard-water scale that pits the steel
Do these few things, half a minute on the denim you already own, and a blade that used to last you two or three weeks will last you three months, four, six months and more. The same blade, the same steel, the same face, just maintained the way the old barbers maintained theirs.
Tell me in the comments below, how long does a razor blade last you now, and will you try the denim trick, for I would dearly like to know how long folks can stretch a blade once they start maintaining it. And tell me your county and whether your water is hard or soft, for the hard water makes a great difference to how fast a blade rusts, and I like to map it by where you all write from. I read every one.
Next time, I want to show you how to sharpen all the cutting tools about your house the old way, your kitchen knives, your scissors, your garden tools and axes, with simple stones and methods anyone can learn, for a dull tool is a dangerous and a wasteful thing.
A blade is a tool, and a tool is a thing to be kept and maintained and made to last, not used a few times and thrown away. The old people tended every edge they owned, from the great scythe to the smallest razor, and so they never wanted for a sharp one. The hand that maintains its tools is the hand that never has to keep buying them. The people who built this country with their hands knew that, and we are only just starting to remember it.

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