Damascus steel - a millennia-old art of forging that continues to fascinate today. The oldest evidence of damask is a Celtic sword from the time around 500 BC. Even though the origin of this forging technique probably did not lie with the Celts, they nevertheless brought the process to perfection. The first artistically forged damask blades came from the Germanic tribes, who at the time of the migration of peoples, i.e. around 300 to 450 AD, were able to produce damask patterns in a targeted and, above all, repeatable manner using controlled forging processes.

Caring for a straight razor mainly entails preserving the razor‘s edge and protecting it from corrosion. The sharpness of the razor mainly comes from regular „stropping“ on linen and untreated leather and, after a while, on leather treated with a grinding paste. This requires a bit of practice but can be learned quickly