Yeah, I suspected as much.

The blog is stand alone, but it's linked into the store as well. Perhaps it's ok, perhaps not. I'm sure I'll find out soon enough.

I very much dislike doing a hard sell at any time for any reason. Even when questions come in through my little store, I can't do a hard sell. I just let folks know what's what, and let them make their own decision. When the posted rules of a forum state that one must not link to their own selling site, I've never gotten a warning for it before and really hoping to not attract my first here.

A work around would be a nightmare, and if it was needed, the wait might be a very, very long one.


I must say it is interesting how different forums react to those who sell things. I suppoe it boils down to what past experiences have been on that forum.


A blade is a blade? Nope, not really. Learned that from working over knives after woodworking tools. What works well for a knife may be terrible for a tool, and vise versa but that's more feeling and preference.

There just isn't enough metal in a razor to start running into the problems that putting 4-6 square inches of hard steel on a stone does. But at the same time, what that much hard steel does to a stone is vastly different to what a very small surface area will enact. Some stones don't care one way or another, others get all uppity at either end of the scale, be it lots of metal or a little. Obvious example of this is how well liked Naniwa Superstones are here with razors, but how largely inadequate they are with anything other than microbevels with tools. I like Superstones, but there's no way in the world they're "fast".


We shall see what happens when I stick a razor on stone.

(I got no surprises when I put knives to stone, all warnings to the contrary, which is why I'm not expecting anything unusual with razors. Different, yes? Completely off the wall different? Not really.)

Wish me luck!

Stu.