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I completely agree. With any of the manual arts--heck, maybe with everything, the absolute best starting place is someone showing what excellence actually looks like.

Note that the coincidence of:

1. Romans being especailly marked by an unprecedented degree of clean shaveness, and the extraordinarily advanced skill they had in steel. After the Empire fell, it...

In ye olde days, you either lived someplace with really appropriate rocks close by, or you didn't. So if you were a warlord of the Belgae, a Thuringian king, or the emperor o' Japan, you sharpened...

I get cut-up on every first-shave-after-honing. Little bleeders where the surface of the skin gets skimmed off.

By the third stropping, it's smooooooth.....