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    See....now ya know why I said to stay away from Dr. Matt.

    Just forget the man exists, so we can all get outta this shit storm in one piece.

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    Quote Originally Posted by STF View Post
    Hi,

    I am sorry if anyone here feels that I am out of order, please accept my apologies.

    I have always make an honest attempt to post and reply with respect and good humour.

    But, the respect I always try to treat everyone here with I feel I have the right to expect in return.

    I appreciate the fact that I don't have much experience yet with a straight razor and a lot of the time I make bone comments and ask stupid questions but I always try to do it politely.

    I don't feel that anyone here should have the right to give me a public telling off. I am very nearly 58 which makes me older than a lot of the experienced shavers and honers so if anyone here wants to tell me off, private me please.

    Once again I apologize for any disrespect or hurt I have ever caused anyone here. I like to consider the SRP brotherhood my friends and would be mortified if I upset any of them.
    Steve— regardless of how old you are, you are 313 or by now 315 posts on here, which is thousands less than the people I still read to learn from.

    Cute and clever comes off oddly in a forum full of generous “experts” who are willing not only to share experience and knowledge, but actual razors with you....and more importantly, time.

    Don’t respond, just think about it.
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    Im lucky.
    I cant stand Dr. Matts attitude or the way he talks and smiles all the damn time. So when i was learning and watching vids i stayed away from him.
    Just sit back, Steve. Let all the info you have gained from us sink in. Hone and hone and hone some more. It will all make since in the end. It just takes much more time than you have into it yet.
    It's just Sharpening, right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gasman View Post
    Im lucky.
    I cant stand Dr. Matts attitude or the way he talks and smiles all the damn time. So when i was learning and watching vids i stayed away from him.
    +1 there. I’m sure he is a good person I just was never a fan of his videos either.
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    I actually met him in person at the Shave SW in Phoenix last year. It was just a hello, but he seemed OK.

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    FWIW, I've not had a problem with Dr. Matt's videos, not that I follow or have viewed all them. His style of presentation is what it is, take it or leave it. Chefs Knives to Go asked him to make a video on stropping kitchen knives which I do follow. It involves a 3-stroke, 2-stroke, 1-stroke countdown on each face of the knife with a bench strop. Over the past 2-3 years, I've adapted this to good effect with custom built, two-sided pasted balsa and plain vegetable-tanned leather bench strops.
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    Lol, if he was describing honing a factory Gold Dollar, honing the spine straight and even first is good advice, especially since it’s too thick anyway. For razors that were manufactured to better standards, there are a lot of reasons that a razor spine can rock on a flat surface and should not be flattened out, a properly made smiler for example as Victor notes.

    He’s a good fellow as far as I know, curious about things which I admire, but I don’t think that his conclusions can always be supported by his arguments. If you have a valuable or historic razor and Dr. Matt recommends grinding the spine down, I’d ask for a second opinion.
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    People who don’t listen, why waste your advise on them?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brontosaurus View Post
    FWIW, I've not had a problem with Dr. Matt's videos, not that I follow or have viewed all them. His style of presentation is what it is, take it or leave it. Chefs Knives to Go asked him to make a video on stropping kitchen knives which I do follow. It involves a 3-stroke, 2-stroke, 1-stroke countdown on each face of the knife with a bench strop. Over the past 2-3 years, I've adapted this to good effect with custom built, two-sided pasted balsa and plain vegetable-tanned leather bench strops.
    For me his style of presentation is not a problem either and his vid on knives may very well be excellent but I have no interest in knives so have not seen them. I am interested in honing straight razors and really abhor some of the techniques he touts in honing straight razors. I would encourage people to look elsewhere for that.

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    Never met him. Never seen a vid. Really don't care
    If you don't care where you are, you are not lost.

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