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This is excellent advice. My mother (YES MOTHER) gave me this advice before I started honing professionally.
Had she not told me over and over again to take my time I wouldn't have the understanding I do now.
Time isn't a useful measurement of success, the razor is though.
After you master your skills, and are getting repeatable results over and over again, then you can start to look at the time it takes, and how to refine your honing progression/technique to get quicker.
Well said.
I have, at times, estimated how long a razor might require for proper honing (at least to my abilities) and in every case, my estimate was wrong. Some much faster, some much slower...
Point being, the razor don't care what you think. It has it's own needs...
I still remember my mothers advice when I took up shaving all those years ago. She was doing a second pass at the time and had to take her pipe out of her mouth to talk to me. She sighed, turned round to face me, half her face still covered with lather and water droplets playfully twinkling on the 'cut here' tattoo around her neck in the yellow morning sunlight streaming through the window.
She grasped my hand with her 'l-o-v-e' tattooed one with the missing thumb (lost in a threshing machine incident), and said, in a slow, measured voice "Son, get the hell out of the bathroom.' Of course, I understood. as I passed through the bathroom door dad wiped the flour off his hands on his new gingham pinny and patted me on the head.
It's moments like that that stick with a man.
Regards,
Neil