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yeah i know...just couldn´t help myself. :o

bahhhh couldn´t help myself could I?, efter eyeing the razor I simply HAD to try.....so i shaved the sides of the face and luckily no nicks.... the idiotic part is i cut myself with my old fusion...

hmmm ok allready ordered some but they were not expensive (phew) agressive you say so it could be a little link between real honing and a barbers hone?

i Already have 2 dovo strops i will try to...

Thanks Jim, i´ll get the balsa and else cool my heels for now....and ask in the hone department on stones. :beer1:

cool i will try that then.....now i´m trying not to get ahead of myself (hard thing for me) but would it be a good idea to get a whetstone at this point? and if so, I,ve seen a yaxell 3000/8000 grit....

Ok guys heres finally some answers regarding the Mighty-sharp hones. i spoke to him over the phone today. First of all, he uses a straight shaver himself and has for years. what he has to say for...

LOL, well i guess some of us untamely savages could benefit greatly from learning the art of shaving with a straight :rofl2:

thanks for the welcome m8 :)

@Mikael thats a seriously nice offer, thank you very much. :)

@str8fencer from what i read hes using quite a wide arrays og honing instruments, the lansky and apex is just the honing instruments...

for MickR and syslight.
Regarding the work on the mightysharp and the honing of straights...i found this on his homepage... a straight he fixed up (before and after): Slibning af barberkniv |...

thanks str8fencer

seems a few of us in here .... not quite the minority that i first thought we might be :)

Hey Otto

Thanks for the welcome, tak for velkomsten :)

Thanks Syslight

well for how well mighty-sharp does the job I cant yet tell you, (if i ever can because as a newbie i have nothing to compare it to) And whether he´s a straight shaver as well I...

Hi Mick

yeah I´ve gathered as much that the sharpness is only a part of the equation, and I,m fully prepared to go around looking like a human pizza until i get the necessary skill not to cut and...

Hi

All new noob from denmark, 42 years old and havent tried straight razor shaving yet. still waiting for the razor to get back from honing.

Trying a straight razor is something I´ve thought...