Quote Originally Posted by pjrage View Post
He was flipping over the edge while honing as well. And slamming the razor back onto the hone. And no light honing pressure there, hehe. He's not only lifting the spine to flip when stropping, but on a few of them on the CrOx he's actually lifting early and rolling onto the edge as he does it. This is actually the perfect video to illustrate something I was saying earlier about how the stropping sound changes and you can hear when stropping on edge only (turns into a "shhheeeeeennngg" sound at the end of the stroke when the spine is lifted and edge is down).

I'm not saying it all doesn't work for him, because he's clearly one of the greatest razor makers ever, but I wouldn't show that video to a newbie as any indication of how to sharpen a razor. You're right though, if anyone but someone of his level posted that video, people would tear him up. He's broken at least half of the most basic rules we all read here regarding stropping and honing. I'm honestly not sure what to take away from the video... that there's more than one way to skin a cat? Or do we all agree that the razor probably isn't at the same sharpness level many of us like, or, at the same level you'd get a razor back from a resident honemeister at?

Maybe a key thought is that we all define shave ready differently? That razor would probably shave at some level, but I wouldn't want to be the test subject for a shave

I can't take a thing away from that razor, though. What a stunner.
What I take away: I'm not buying one of his razors!