Quote Originally Posted by Lt.Arclight View Post
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.
But that is not what you are talking about here. You are talking confort.
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"
Confort, disconfort, and pain. These things are subjective, and highly effected by psychological effects. That is the nature of the placebo effect. If you spend money, any money and do something that you are told will make you feel better, you will likely experiance that it does feel better.

Not this is certainly not a paranormal claim, I would be interested in seeing double blind testing with razors honed in different fashions, but all highly sharp.