Quote Originally Posted by DrNaka View Post
"If the skin is hard and beard hair soft a straight edge is good. If the skin is soft and hair is hard a hamaguriba edge is better." "Japanese in general have a harder skin so our razors have straight edge, But we advice barbers who have many western customers to sharpen their razors hamaguriba or if straight edge more wider angle."
"The angle of the edge is very important so if you have a razor for yourself you must find out which angle is best for you."
This is interesting, a hamaguriba (convex) edge is more common in Europe due to the use of pasted strops to develop the edge, yet usually most on the USA fora advocate straight edges. Just an observation.