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07-26-2008, 04:24 PM #17
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Thanked: 271I agree with both you gentlemen but have something important to add: sending a razor to someone else for honing is not just for newbies. I have been shaving with a straight for 28 years and I have 10 razors in my rotation, which I hone myself. Some of them shave better than others and a couple of them I really didn't like. I always wondered if it was my honing or if they just weren't good razors.
Well, when I found SRP and began to improve the various elements of my technique, it so happened that my first razor needed to be cleaned and repinned and since I don't do that kind of work, I decided to send it off to moviemaniac in Austria. He cleaned, repinned and honed it for me for a very reasonable price and when it came back I was shocked. My worst razor had been turned into one of my best. So, I sent him my second worst razor for cleaning and honing. It turns out it was my honing after all. What I hadn't taken into account was that they were of harder steel and I just wasn't equipped to deal with them. The moral of my story is you will never be so good that you can't learn something from somebody else.
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