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Pins: surprisingly complicated

Pins: surprisingly complicated

by Zak Jarvis | Sep 3, 2012 | Historical Perspective, Razors, Techniques

Most of the historical washers or collars were made of multiple parts of very thin metal stock. Each layer was punched out of a sheet of rolled metal (brass, bronze, nickel, silver, copper, sometimes even gold).

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