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Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

you are probably the most enthusiastic person that I know about this particular subject. You're certainly all in and in the end that will pay off for you but it may be that you're enthusiasm is working against you somewhat. As Rezdog said it's probably best to listen to one teacher so you don't cloud your mind with too many things as far as videos go at least. I know there's been a lot of advice given in this thread and I think you're probably better at it than you think but a thing that really worked for me was slowing down my stroke to the point, as I said before, that it is almost in slow motion.

Hi Paul. very kind words, I'm not sure I deserve them but I will admit that if I decide to get involved with something, whether it's straight shaving or learning to hone I only have two speeds, Stop or completely obsessed.

I want to thank you again for the 4 razors you sent me a few months ago to practice honing on. You told me that it didn't matter if I stuffed them because they were just practice razors and nothing special.

I have to disagree respectfully. I love my razors, including those and if I can't shave with them I can at least polish them and admire them.

Actually, I have been doing my math and the way I see it, with decent stropping a razor should shave well for at least 25-30 shaves, probably more but my point is. I have 14 razors in my rotation and shave everyday so I use each razor every two weeks, twice a month.

That means I am using each razor about 24 times a year so I don't think it would be unreasonable to say that I could refresh my razors annually, in October in my case.

The reason I went through the math is that I only have what I would consider shave ready razors in my rotation. Now you sent me 4 practice razors Paul. I had completely fortgotten that 2 of them are shave ready and in my rotation so I did successfully set those bevels and hone them, to my satisfaction at least.

I'm not for a minute suggesting that they are Outback sharp but I do get bbs on every razor in my rotation including those two.

The two razors I am struggling with are razors you sent and the no name round point you did warn me about being a bitch. The other is a slight smile.

I'm getting a great shave of a $5 chinese razor I bought to play with and bevel set/hone and no one could have been more suprised than I at how well it turned out so I am obviously doing something right.

Conventional wisdom and some of the guys here that I really respect have advised me to put the hard ones away for now and try again when I have more experience, that is great advice and will certainly save a lot of heartache.

Unfortunately everytime i see those two razors they laugh at me so I'm gonna hone them even if i have to grind them down until I can make them into screwdrivers.