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The difference today is that for hundreds of years boys learned to shave directly by watching their dads or granddads or older brothers, then were taught themselves. It was a different experience....

Not sure what you mean. We're talking about whether it is helpful to have a non-cutting razor to learn some basic razor handling, not about ...

...I give up!

Likely we both have been "hearing" each other via the medium of text as being a bit more sharp than we intended.

My experience involved some pretty bad cuts early on, so I am eager to save others...

You've confused analogies and experiences. Some of us have talked about younger people, but I started talking about colleagues and friends who just don't want to walk around with cuts on their faces....

I'm talking about adult men, and good men, whom I know well, whose manhood and maturity are not in question.

What's the problem with having a few dry-runs before going to the sharpened edge?

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Because I see no down-side to "safe." I see no virtue in unnecessary discomfort or injury, even minor. Life gives us enough real pain and injury, why add to it? I'm glad you taught yourself. I'm glad...

I guess we're just talking past each other. I think there are a great many basic hand-eye things that are worth learning without a sharp edge on one's face. Grips, strokes, the look etc.

I can...

There is still a fat edge and a skinny edge.

That's not complicated.

Learning to hold the thing at a 30 degree angle, how to slip it over the curves of the face, under the nose, strong hand...

This is exactly what I"m talking about. Just a chance to practice the basic hand-eye stuff without the risk. People starting out as adults, as I did, have a higher since of "what can go wrong" than a...

Fair 'nuff!

This started with a buddy of mine who wants to try the straight, but really is timid about applying that blade to his face. So I thought, "Gee, I wish I had a razor with no edge on it...

Hey sorry. I'm not saying anybody has to do anything, just thinking out loud in a half-practical, half-light-hearted vein.

I have a friend who is seriously thinking about switching, and I thought about dulling and rounding off a cheap razor just to let him practice. That's when it occurred to me…there IS something I can...

I thought of a good use for cheapy razors today.

Someone new to straight shaving could buy a GD, then file the edge down to the point of it being butter-knife blunt, but smooth.

Then use it as...