Thread: FAQ: Information for all straight razor shavers: Shave ready razors

Originally Posted by Nickelking
I'll second that, while it's good to have some honers listed it kind of relegates everyone else to second tier, if there is to be a honers directory I think it should be kept separate and in the vendors' forum. Unless of course the vendor has the explicit support of the forum. You could end up with people being leery of buying a shave ready razor in B/S/T.

Otherwise a separate list in the vendors' forum would be appropriate.

Yes, I agree too. Still, the current link, 'who can make my razor shave ready' only list vendors where you can buy such razor. I think keeping it as a word of mouth, as Jim said is the wisest option, but we should add a paragraph on that. May be:

'Many experienced members of this forum offer honing services for a very modest fee. Although we are unable to provide a list it should be fairly easy to find them.'

Also it does seem that we endorse the shave-readiness of all B/S/T offers. I wonder whether

Straight Razor Place also has a Buy/Sell/Trade forum where it is possible to buy a used and/or refurbished razor that has also been hand honed and is truly shave ready, according to the seller.

woks as a small warning? But now I'm thinking that this may only complicate things unnecessary as I believe virtually all shave-ready razors in B/S/T are so, and we can deal with the exception when it happens.

Make it simple, or cover our arses?

Originally Posted by gugi

Make it simple, or cover our arses?

I didnt think Americans said 'arses'. I thought it was 'asses'. That has brightened my day already.

If you check out the posts again you will notice that:

a) The current FAQ for this thread as it stands (which is 10 posts above this one) has no mention of vendors at all. This has been removed and placed in a different FAQ. There is a link to the thread in the post now.

b) The vendor FAQ is likely to be put in the vendor forum. It wont have any comment on opinions of the vendor work. Simply the services they provide, their name, username, URL and if they desire, their location. I have contacted each vendor listed asking for an accurate description of their work and am updating it as I get replies.

Please check my most recent and up to date posting of how the FAQ is looking.

Many thanks,

Sandy

well i'm not an american even though i live here. our english education was based on british, although nowadays that may be quite different

One thing I wonder in light of Bruno's post is how do you qualify people as vendors - there was something about enthusiasts etc. I'm not disputing whether Bruno should be added or not, just thinking that you don't want to be put in a situation where you have to make subjective decisions who gets listed and who doesn't.
Making some sort of a policy would save a lot of headaches to whoever manages this. Say every 6 months the vendors listed are contacted to confirm they are active and if not are taken off the list or something.

Originally Posted by gugi

Making some sort of a policy would save a lot of headaches to whoever manages this. Say every 6 months the vendors listed are contacted to confirm they are active and if not are taken off the list or something.

The way i'm working at the moment is this: a vendor should be nominated either by PM or via forum by someone other than themselves. If this is agreed with i'll contact the vendor and ask if they want to be put on, what they'd like on there and if I may put a location down.

That avoids me turning round and saying 'I'm an excellent honemeister!' (I cant hone for toffee).

However this is being led away from the topic in hand and unless there are any objections to the actual Shave-ready post I think we should close and lock the sticky.

LAST CALL- If there is anything you disagree with on the shave ready thread then speak now or forever hold thy peace.

This is going at a very fast pace. Lets slow own a bit so that more people, myself included, have more time to think these over and make suggestions. These FAQ are for the long term so lets not rush anything.

Do I hear a second to this motion?


Having my first cup of coffee and getting ready for another very busy day will little time for SRP stuff,

Guys, lets try to stay focused and on-topic. Nothing will be gained by diluting our focus across to many issues at once.

The specific issue at hand in this thread is to decide whether [this] version of the shave ready faq (with the attendant modifications which followed in a couple posts) is ready to publish.

I'm not discounting that the discussion on how to deal with listing vendors is useful, but it's no longer germane to this thread (unless someone suggests that info be re-included in the faq).

I would also like to note that nothing we put into the FAQ should be considered as "cast in concrete"... we should be able to update any FAQ at a later date as corrections, additional information, and new ideas surface. The FAQs should be living documents.

Originally Posted by randydance062449

These FAQ are for the long term so lets not rush anything.

Randy I agree with you completely on this. BELIEVE me I understand they will take a long time to put each one together. However....

Originally Posted by azjoe

The specific issue at hand in this thread is to decide whether [this] version of the shave ready faq is ready to publish.

I would also like to note that nothing we put into the FAQ should be considered as "cast in concrete"... we should be able to update any FAQ at a later date as corrections, additional information, and new ideas surface. The FAQs should be living documents.

I see the FAQs in the same way as Joe does. Putting them up there to be published doesnt mean they're finished with. Its just going to be up there. We can come back to it as other people read this thread and update it as required.

OK, I agree to this version of the FAQ since the option to modify it in the future is available.

Another yes vote.