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Where did any of us say honing was a mystery?

Here is your mystery- form a bevel on each side of the blade, make them meet and form an edge, polish to as high grit as you like, have fun shaving....

That "somehow" can cost a lot of money you know, so why not go the well established and tested way instead of wasting dollar signs and neurons??

You are mistaking a purely mechanical skill with mental abilities I think.
Honing is fine motor skill and even though it seems simple it takes time to learn properly, it would have been a breeze if...

For me the bigger problem is that new to the hobby people want to start honing immediately, and there is the big issue for me.
People need to learn how to shave with their straights and how to...