Thread: First straight razor, Ralf Aust or Revisor

This is my first attempt at uploading a microscope film. It also is this Luddite's first attempt at uploading a video to YouTube. Please bear with me. It turns out that my memory card was too slow so I had to record at a relatively poor image quality. Also, I have to focus by raising and lowering the razor so it is a little shaky. Sorry for anyone who gets motion sickness from this.

Anyway, this is my Shave Ready Revisor razor. The above referenced Kronenberg interview included the following.

Next, one of two hones. In the past five years, a growing number of synthetic and natural hones were introduced in various shaving forums. Seemingly every other month, a new super hone or honing technique is introduced, typically by people who make money by honing other people's razors for money. The Kronenbergs take a more traditional approach, says Günter, "I use the yellow hone with slurry, like we always did. When that does not deliver the expected results, which hardly ever happens, I use the grey one." Yes, things can - and, we believe - should be as simple as that. We will not repeat what the Kronenbergs had to say about people using more hones than that. Suffice it to say that they believe that what they use is sufficient, and that most people will be hard pressed to produce better edges using synthetic hones.

From what I have seen, I disagree.