Ok so that's BS but I got your attention. Over the past several weeks I have been doing some serious experimenting with the feather system. All I can say is these things are like a good farm mule. You cant hook em up wrong! Kinda feel like my straights are being neglected, but I want to give the full system a real shot. They are not real straights but the shave is so good it doesn't matter. Have a couple more weeks of using the other styles an making my way through the blade choices. I expect nothing less then amazing. Which brought me to the question, since they are so easy to take care of an sharpness is just a blade change away, "I wonder if anyone has abandoned real straights for the ease of this system"?