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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    Can NOT!
    Cool Hand Luke Onimaru can!
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    I, finally, am speachless! WELL SAID, Neil!
    "Don't be stubborn. You are missing out".
    I rest my case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil Miller View Post
    Cool Hand Luke Onimaru can!
    Get it on!
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    "Don't be stubborn. You are missing out".
    I rest my case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by straightrazorheaven View Post
    ..............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.
    Maybe??

    I ponder to think what Goro Masamune would have thought about this path to success.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil Miller View Post
    Cool Hand Luke Onimaru can!
    In an hour .


    Quote Originally Posted by Hirlau View Post
    Maybe??

    I ponder to think what Goro Masamune would have thought about this path to success.
    Probably wouldn't have thought about it at all. Thinking prevents mushin no shin.

    Wow this thread got
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    Quote Originally Posted by onimaru55 View Post


    Probably wouldn't have thought about it at all. Thinking prevents mushin no shin.

    Wow this thread got
    Yes, these honing threads tend to generate "Too Much Mind."

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    Quote Originally Posted by pfries View Post
    My razors tell me when they are done, not the other way around.

    I don't watch the clock or count laps until I am working with one that I am intimately familiar with and then I only count laps.

    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.
    I tried telling a razor she was done once and boy did she bite in the most unpleasant way. That was back when I first started honing. TELLING your razor what to do is like telling your wife what to do with out saying please, thank you or giving her flowers after.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brooksie967 View Post
    I tried telling a razor she was done once and boy did she bite in the most unpleasant way. That was back when I first started honing. TELLING your razor what to do is like telling your wife what to do with out saying please, thank you or giving her flowers after.
    So do the flowers work on Razors?
    I just traded in the stones for six pack of black and tan, and a shave I will have to share for the good, the bad, or the ugly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brooksie967 View Post
    I tried telling a razor she was done once and boy did she bite in the most unpleasant way. That was back when I first started honing. TELLING your razor what to do is like telling your wife what to do with out saying please, thank you or giving her flowers after.
    I'll take the biting razor any day vs the biting wife!

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    I feel your pain! I have a Wade and Butcher semi wedge. Tried and tried to hone it, with no success. I'd watched Lynns video on the Naniwa Super Stones(which is what I have, 1000,5000,8000,12000). Still no luck. What I ultimately did was at the 1000 and 5000 level, I doubled the number of circles and x strokes and at the 8000 and 12000 level, I did 50% more. I tried to cut hairs on my right arm at the halfway point, and hairs on my left fell off! Good luck.

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