Those who sharpen knives shouldn't throw stones.
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Originally Posted by
shooter74743
Where most knives are called spooky sharp...that's where we start with straight razors. I was one of those guys who could put scary sharp edges on knives & figured it would be easy...boy was I wrong. ....
Never give up on chasing a perfect shave or pushing an edge on a particular razor to the max...just because it's FUN!
After purchasing "shave ready" razors from vendors here and elsewhere it became clear to me just how relative that term can be. The best examples became touchstones for my own efforts while learning and the worst examples after my practicing on them became proofs of what had been learned.
I never again will call one of my knife sharpening jobs "razor sharp". My first open blade shave was with a pocket knife I honed beyond scary sharp as in too sharp to be a practical tool. It did shave down a cheek after a fashion but it prompted me to buy a straight razor and push for a sharper edge. After wearing out a couple of stones and grinding down some razors my edges are now so far beyond the best Japanese steel knives I own that I rather like to forget what I once thought was sharp. I just didn't know what I didn't know.
I learned how to get truly sharp from reading this site and lots and lots and lots of practice.
In about another 39800 blades I might try to turn pro.:hmmm::roflmao