Thread: For Better or For Worse, a Psychological Honing Experiment

I'm going to refer to an arbitrary point in time when most people shaved (or were shaved) with straights as "Back in the Day", or BITD.

Two points:

• BITD people could not learn how to hone on the internet.
• BITD people could not do the homegrown research and trial/error methods and experiments that many of us do to get the FINEST edges possible.

I'm curious how these points affect the confidence of board member's edges. Is it as sharp as it could be? Is it sharper than it could have possibly been BITD? As a community do we feel as if we're striving to approach an older "standard" of sharpness that we imagine on an individual level, or do we feel that our honing abilities have long surpassed it?

So answer the poll above to the following question; it matters not what your experience level of honing is.

"BITD, you go to your barber and receive an average shave from an average razor. According to what you can *imagine* to be an average level of shave-ready sharpness, do you feel your personal razor is more dull, just as sharp, or sharper than the razor in the barbershop?"

I'm intrigued to see the results of the honers here, and also, what different sorts of things you think we can deduce from these results. What do the results mean? And what does it say about how we feel as a community about a standard level of sharpness both BITD and today?

Or, what would be a better poll question be that might give us more interesting answers to these questions?