Because "Meister".
Whenever I read this "meister" (or, for the spellingwise challenged, "miester") humbug, I wonder if it ever occurred to anyone that
maybe, just maybe, officially trained, qualified and accredited German craftsmen in their sixties and seventies may be just that
tiny little bit more knowledgeable and experienced than some self taught individual from the interwebs upon whom a nonsensical and entirely meaningless title (which started as a joke to honour our fearless leader here, and should have stopped right there) has been bestowed?
Because, you know, there are things like "True Honing – So Good It’s Patented" (and no, I am not going to dignify this idiocy by adding a link here), and these things are so mindnumbingly idiotic that, well, my mind goes numb. Likewise, each time I have to read "oh, and then I put that German razor onto some $$k grit $SUPERHONE, and only then was it truly shave ready", I go
And Thiers Issard, well... no. I've had a few, I sold them all. They used to be good, though, or so they say. Then again, one should never really believe anything that's written on the interwebs...