Quote Originally Posted by onimaru55 View Post
You may well be able to sharpen knives & maybe your razor but will it be smooth enough to shave comfortably & how will you judge that ? If you compare to a disposable you will not have a good point of reference. An inexpensive shave ready razor will give you that benchmark to aim for.
yeah I was just gonna compare to a disposable actually :P.
I was planning that would help me achieve the right technique to sharpen a razor, I mean if I can get it to be as good or better than a new disposable then I can't be doing too much wrong can I? And then when I buy a second pro honed razor I would see how much better I could aim for.

Also I was thinking if I got a shave-ready one off someone on the classifieds what if they're opinion of what is shave ready or not is very broad and at the lower end of what they consider 'ready' is only as good as a disposable?

Anyway that was just my train of thought, I'll still buy a pro-honed one soon as I can though!