Originally Posted by
ace
If you have survived shaving with a Shavette for months, your technique has to be at least adequate.
I've bought a bunch of "shave ready" razors off Ebay that were not shave ready. I bought one that was
supposed to be able to pass the HHT, and when it arrived it had little microchips all along the blade. I bought
that one just for the fun of it. However, when I bought the "shave ready" blades, I fully expected to have to hone them when they arrived, and I did just.
On Ebay, people have figured out that the description "shave ready" sells razors. It's much like used cars
supposedly driven only by old ladies on their way home from church. If you want to sell a Wade and Butcher
wedge, you call it a "Meatchopper". Ebay is a market and in markets claims become exaggerated. In Latin, the
advice is 'Caveat Emptor', and in English it is 'Let the buyer beware'. When the market consists of digital/computer information and carefully orchestrated photographs, then it is easy to get misled. Worse than that, we really want to believe what we read. "Shave ready" on Ebay translates in English to "this will have to be honed if you have any intention of shaving with it".