Shaving... The Way It (Sometimes) Was!

I did a double take when I saw this photo of shaving... with an axe! It accompanied a barbershop ad... Not that they claimed to use an axe for shaving!

Probably just taken for the ad, I thought... I mean, could an axe be that sharp?!

But when I googled shaving with an axe, I even found instructions!! It appears the angle of the axe - as well as its sharpness - are important.

So loggers shaved with axes back in the day... ?!

(Did they shaved often? I wonder...  I think most had beards!)

Hard to believe it was really that way - in the backwoods - back in the day?!!