Quote Originally Posted by bookdoctor View Post
Is there a way to get a really good shave from a SR that would be easy and not so involved with all this work with different stones, different pastes, different methods of honing, films, glass, marbles. Does anyone have any simple ways of getting this back to basic's? What did our forefathers do when they didn't have access to all of this high end expensive garbage.
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 with the one (singular) variety of rock you knew about. If you were, say, a hottentot, you shaved using a stick freshly plucked glowing from the fire.

Neither the Hottentot nor the Ottoman Emperor suffered from brain dazzle resulting from an excess of choices. You don't have to either.

Solve your problem this way. Go to the top ad on this page. Send that vendor an email requesting 1 razor, 1 rock, 1 strop, 1 brush, 15 pucks of soap all of the same variety, 15 bottles of aftershave, all the same variety and let the vendor know you'll take whatever he picks. Then elect never to read any threads in the 'equipment section, or click on any ads ever again. Problem fixed!