Thread: "Shave Ready" ... Yeah, Right.

Nice job with the photos. I know it's not easy getting decent pictures holding a camera up to the tube of a stereomicroscope.

I check every razor I hone with a stereomicroscope. I consider myself adequate at honing but if any of those edges are remotely considered to be shave ready, then I do hereby immediately promote myself to HoneMeister, second class. There is no way that any razor leaving my hands would even remotely look anything like the horrors of those edges.

I thought Cornelius was simply being naive rejecting his razors based solely on the HHT, and in my opinion he was mistaken doing so. However, Bart's photos clearly show that these three razors were not up to snuff. None of them should have been called shave ready. I guess I'm a little less charitable than Bart was.

Great pics Bart. It's easy to see why HHT's were not passed.
I think that may change after you hone them

Thanks, Bart! I cant wait for those to arrive back (slow European mail services...)

In the mean time, I bought another, supposedly super duper blade, a Friodur NOS from a guy in Germany who had a few available, apparently. Well, this one is my dullest blade yet! People in the German forum raved about how "sauscharf" (super sharp) these are. I doubt mine is honed at all