Originally Posted by
blueprinciple
I think it's easy to decide to have a go and come unstuck. Two examples - a customer bought a not-shave-ready wedge from me, saying he would hone it. Emailed me a week or so later bursting with pride saying he now had a great edge, was two stone lighter and also now had arms like legs and shoulders that made Mr. Schwarzenneger's look like a pretzel. He had of course used a 12k hone all the way through and about 3,000 laps!
Next was one poor guy who sent me two razors that he liked the look of and got off ebite. One had two cracks in the blade and the other a frown the likes of which I have never seen - like 1/2 the blade depth.
Both these guys suffered from trying to (a) do something with no training and (b) buy something they didn't look into. Yet both now shave with straights and count the cost of learning as well spent. It's easy to forget that newbies don't know how to strop, hone, shave or lather their face - if they did, they wouldn't ask. And then where would we be?:thinking: