Quote Originally Posted by 32t View Post
i have found that this is not much different than the rest of life. it is not that hard to get to the 90th percentile. Beyond that, $+ time gets you better, with diminishing returns. Where do you want to stop? 90% is not bad.
A barber's hone takes you beyond 90 percentile closer to the 99 percentile. but that just depends on the hone and the user.

some people dream of a 100% perfectly sharp razor and are willing to try anything to get there. will they actually be able to tell the difference... in a blind shave test i doubt it.

but having spent most of the money, i stopped with a full set of shapton glass plates, i never got into the jnats or any of the later popular choices, i remember chasing the dream too. it was fun.