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HomeAwayFromHone@sub.wetshaving.social Joined: 2023-06-13

The Canadian Conservation Institute has a very comprehensive website with a variety of publications relevant to helping our straight razor collections endure for decades and centuries to come. Some in particular I've found helpful:

walden@wetshav.ing Joined: 2025-08-14

Good info. I was going to say it's mostly common sense, but I have a razor with bone scales and apparently I should be more careful about getting it wet?

I imagine short periods of being wet are fine. I never soak it for example.

gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social Joined: 2023-06-09

Thanks very much for passing this along. 👍

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