Quote Originally Posted by PonderingTurtle View Post
I am not saying that a stone will cut all razors the same, or that some razors would respond to different techniques, but I think that the level some members claim, it seems to be very psychological.

Like those people who buy $3,000 speaker cables because they can hear the difference, and to an extent they do hear something that sounds better in their mind. Rather like a study showed that peoples brains respond differently when drinking the same wine if told it cost $10 vs when told it cost $90. With the pleasure centers lighting up longer for the $90 wine, when it was entirely the same.

So while there was no difference, those people certainly precieved a difference, because their perceptions were shaped by their understanding of the cost of the wine.

Respectfully, I totally disagree. When you place a razor against your face and during the shave it cuts the whiskers, yet turns skin into hamburger because of its lack of smoothness-its NOT psychological.

Take a strop pasted with .25 diamond paste and go to town-chances are a sharp,yet harsh edge will result.Can you shave with a edge directly off an 8K Norton-absolutely, some may even find it comfortable. This is were advanced honing really counts-there are many roads to acheiving a keen comfortable edge. Does it take a mega buck Japanese hone? How can you judge it , if you haven't shaved with THAT razor?

Your face is full of nerve endings that WILL TELL YOU if you did a good job. Its not in your "mind"