Thread: How important is prep in extending edge integrity?

Originally Posted by Oglethorpe

beard thickness/texture

Are you referring to how densely together the hair grows or the individual thickness and texture of each hair?

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Are you referring to how densely together the hair grows or the individual thickness and texture of each hair?

Individual thickness of each hair. Maybe I'm "splitting hairs" but a blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skinned guy is going to have thinner, more pliable whiskers than a Sicilian with olive complexion and black hair.

In other words, you can't place the responsibility of the durability of an edge on prep alone (and perhaps I have gone slightly off-topic as a result since we are talking about prep only).

Originally Posted by Oglethorpe

Individual thickness of each hair. Maybe I'm "splitting hairs" but a blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skinned guy is going to have thinner, more pliable whiskers than a Sicilian with olive complexion and black hair.

In other words, you can't place the responsibility of the durability of an edge on prep alone (and perhaps I have gone slightly off-topic as a result since we are talking about prep only).

An absolute measure of prep (or an absolute time limit on edges) is not going to work for the reasons you mention, for sure. But relative prep should be OK, as in "an amount of prep that adequately softens the beard of an individual". In addition, this is all relative - extending the life of the edge on an individual basis. So you might get 2 months from an edge based on your beard type with minor prep, while someone else gets 4 based on theirs, ceteris paribus. We want to know what happens to each person's edges if they use better prep - the first guy may extend to 4 months, the second to 6.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

An absolute measure of prep (or an absolute time limit on edges) is not going to work for the reasons you mention, for sure. But relative prep should be OK, as in "an amount of prep that adequately softens the beard of an individual". In addition, this is all relative - extending the life of the edge on an individual basis. So you might get 2 months from an edge based on your beard type with minor prep, while someone else gets 4 based on theirs, ceteris paribus. We want to know what happens to each person's edges if they use better prep - the first guy may extend to 4 months, the second to 6.

James.

Exactly... I got off topic. Apologies.

Are we any closer to getting good images of edges showing the effects of different stropping materials and methods, and how much rust actually builds up on the edge overnight? I thought there was someone who might have been able to do some electron microscopy for us.

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