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Another oldie but goodie that keeps coming back from time to time, like a piece of sour salami. The issue itself is rather boring, but if you want to get an idea of the concerns we have to keep in mind, this might be interesting.

The idea

I don't remember who first came up with the idea. On a basic level it was very simple: Some people hone razors for other people. Those other people might not know whether the person doing the honing is any good. The idea was to set ...

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Beginnings

When I first looked into possibly shaving with a straight razor, the main question I had in my mind was, "How can I make sure this will work for me?" I didn't want to ignorantly make some colossal omission and end up destroying my moneymaker or waste a bunch of time and money on something that today's technology had rendered obsolete.

My newbie approach

Printing out Chris Moss' guide helped me quite a bit, and researching on SRP the things Chris mentioned in his

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Perhaps a rather touchy subject to be writing about, but let's be honest, the world is not all sunshine and rainbows. And if I am going to write about running SRP, I can hardly pretend that this subject is not a big elephant in the room that noone usually talks about. To be honest, there is a reason we don't usually talk about it.

Let's start with a simple axiom: the people that make up the membership of an online community are no different from the people that make up the actual ...

Literally - a closer look.

As part of my vintage vs. new Williams experiment, I made some slides and took a look at the soap under a microscope.

The white spots in the picture are bubbles - the areas that look a little like lather on some of the bubbles are where the bubble is pressed against the slide.

At this point, I speculate that lots of little bubbles make for a better lather. I need to try out a few more soaps and get some more pictures to be sure. ...

This is an "At-A-Boy" for the shaving community. I have rarely witnessed a group of folks that are so willing to step up and help folks. It is a bright spot in our world.