Sharp things, kept sharp

Three things about a blade

A razor does not go blunt on your face. It goes blunt in the drawer, against the tap, in a wet cloth left on it overnight. Forty passes on leather before you shave keeps an edge alive for months, and a stone twice a year does the rest. Almost everything on this shelf is the last one you will buy. That is not a line, it is the reason the prices read the way they do. A brush lasts twenty years, a strop outlives the razor, and the razor gets handed on. Nothing here is engraved, gilded or named after a mountain. Plain steel, plain horn, plain leather, chosen because it sits properly in a hand at seven in the morning.