I read somewhere that 6/8 is basically in the middle. Most people start with 5/8 from what I read but 6/8 seems to be something I would start with instead. I haven't ordered mine yet so I'm open to other opinions still. I plan to order mine within a day though so I'm trying to learn all I can before I decide. Even though I can't ask my friend for buying advice, he does sharpen all of his knives and his razors so I can ask for help on that. That is probably the only thing I would trust him with lol.

He's good at carving things and such but not good at making good decisions/buys if ya know what I mean. Normally I would go to my roommate for this sort of thing but he doesn't grow any facial hair, maybe a few whiskers every x amount of months but I've never noticed any. On top of that he seems to be scared of sharp objects like this.