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I would really dispute that. It is saying that someone who has studied homeopathy for years knows more about medicine than the average person.

You are totaly ignoreing that your perceptions are...

Sounds pretty good.

And by that I mean I could not come up with a better design with out useing even more people or resources.

Yes. But it is the claims about needing 12 step sharpening techniques, changeing stones repeatedly and the like. These at least here often seem to be taken as proveable statements.


But it is...

Well a razor certainly needs to be sufficiently sharp to work, regardless of any placebo effect.

As for proper double blind experiment it would be pretty hard to do. You would need identical...

It is something that happends all the time and will skew all results, and needs to be factored into all claims. It does not mean that the claims might not be correct, just that annecdotal evidence...

Percieved performance.

The problem is that while I am sure some of the things people do make a real difference, I am also sure some of them do not, but create a percieved difference. Butall...

But that is not what you are talking about here. You are talking confort.


Confort, disconfort, and pain. These things are subjective, and highly effected by psychological effects. That is...

One, what is your evidence that it does?

And the other is that as the razors start with different properties and hardnesses you would not expect them to respond exactly the same, even though its...

Sure and tell the audiophile that in blind tests his $3,000 speaker connections performed no better than wire coat hangers at transmitting the signal, and see how many audiophiles will let you hang...

But with steel, the ways that mechanical stresses can effect it are well studied. You could concievably work harden it, by stressing it beyond its elastic limit, causing a permenant deformation. ...

I am not saying that a stone will cut all razors the same, or that some razors would respond to different techniques, but I think that the level some members claim, it seems to be very psychological....

I do wonder about how much people argue the benefits of their many hones and razors needing different hones as a method of justifying all the hones that they own.

Like you my goal is a smooth...

This is exactly the kind of post that makes me shy away from natural hones. I want to have some idea what sort of stone I will be buying.