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.
I think the forefathers used barber hones with mixed degrees of success. Straights were eventually replaced by simpler forms of shaving. For me the razors in vogue when I started shaving were uncomfortable and did a lousy job. After 40 years of that I got so fed up that I looked for alternate ways of shaving.

The various modern ways of honing are used by enthusiasts, not for economic reasons, but because it's a hobby and challenge to get the ultimate edge. My problem was solved with the DE but I became fascinated with the straight and took it to an absurd level.