Thread: "Your Razor is Crap"

How do you tell someone that the razor they bought out of lack of experience is actually not a good razor?

I'm a first year in college and have been meeting a few guys who share my interests and hobbies. I've met one guy who shaves with a straight and I offered to hone it for him, but his razor has been sharpened more like a knife than a razor. This means giving him back an inferior edge, or a lot of work grinding the proper angle. How do you guys break it to people?

Tell the truth. Be completely honest and help him to understand what is wrong and what it will take to fix it. If you have the ability, then offer to fix it the right way or else don't hone it at all.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Tell the truth. Be completely honest and help him to understand what is wrong and what it will take to fix it. If you have the ability, then offer to fix it the right way or else don't hone it at all.

.......yep.

People apreciate the truth. Just tell it to him straight and tell him his options.

I agree with the posts between yours and mine.

Another path:

. . . Let him use _your_ razor as an experiment.

If his razor is as bad as you think, he'll feel the difference immediately. You won't have to say a word.

Charles