I'll give you the first two, but I disagree about Stainless, at least as far as Knives are concerned. They do not take an edge as easliy as carbon, just by the nature of making metal stainless. If you can sharpen stainless steel as easily as carbon, you truly are the Man, and I want some of the magic hones you bought from the bean stalk guy....

Quote Originally Posted by Seraphim View Post
It is NOT true!

It is a concept dreamt up by bored barbers on a slow day after they got tired of discussing their other made up story of how a canvas strop pre-heats the edge to allow for better leather stropping.


Mettalurgically, the blade can either deform elastically (will spring back immediately), or it can deform plastically (will never spring back, no matter how long you wait).

Okay, my list of lies to be discounted:

#1- razors need to rest
#2- canvas strops pre-heat the razor for using the leathr side
#3- Stainless is more difficult to hone than a plain carbon razor

ALL OF WHICH ARE FALSE!!!!!

Thank you for allowing me to get that off my chest....