Thread: Am I seeing SRP wrong?

Originally Posted by MCFLY49

Can you direct me to a thread that a mod/mentors tells a beginner "Go get a hone and give it a shot, I bet you get the hang of it pretty quick"? I highly doubt it.

I've posted that, but unfortunately right now I have 9514 posts and not 23 like you, so it's a lot of time and effort to go and find it. You search through my posts and you'll find it. But the only times I've posted it have been when it's clear that the member is dead set on taking the really hard path and learning to hone and shave at the same time. And I've examined more than enough edges from inexperienced honers to know that they are doing themselves a great disservice, but some people are more strongheaded than smart and would do whatever they've decided they'll do.

To adress the problem you have with the HHT again I'll draw from my experience actually helping beginners. Several years ago Bart wrote the most comprehensive article on that in the library/wiki, and it's still a very good resource, to the extent that it was copied over to many other shaving forum. But the many different hairs on my body interact with the exact same razor's edge in vastly different way, so that 'scale' in the article is not absolute. And the exact two things that make HHT useless for beginners is the things that they use it for - (1) it's not a simple cut/doesn't cut test (2) it has to be calibrated over number of edges.
Now if they spend one tenth of the effort they put in obsessing with HHT into researching the person they trust with their first razor, get an edge that has been tested by a person with the ability to know good from bad, and then trust that person then they'll be golden and will have gotten rid of a lot of uncertainty.