Thread: Beginning to get why honemeisters charge extra for wedges...

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I can eat 50 eggs.

Can NOT!

Originally Posted by pfries

I have a a few that come out from the work pile and go back to it, they will make the grade at some point, but it is up to them not me when that happens.

A lot of wedges in that pile ?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Can NOT!

Fish eggs?

Originally Posted by Lemur

Fish eggs?

I am thinking the eggs have expired.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

A lot of wedges in that pile ?

More than 1 or 2....

Originally Posted by Jimbo

In all honesty, it is my belief that the sooner you can get away from thoughts about "how long" and concentrate more on "how far" I think the happier and more effective you will be as a honer.

Of course, the pros who do many razors each day need to husband their time, but for the casual honer I'd suggest forgetting about speed records. It's not really helpful.

James.

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.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I can eat 50 eggs.

Nobody, but NOBODY can eat fifty eggs!

Originally Posted by maddafinga

Nobody, but NOBODY can eat fifty eggs!

Eating them wouldn't be a problem for me. Keeping them down, now that's another story.

Newman should add "50 egg" mayonnaise to his range. The slogan would almost write itself!

James

Originally Posted by pfries

My razors tell me when they are done, not the other way around.

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...

Originally Posted by straightrazorheaven

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.

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