First time Mentoring someone
Interesting day today. About a week ago I had a gentlemen contact me, wanting his razor honed and to go over using a straight razor and it's care. So this guy shows up in style riding a BMW motorcycle (kinda partial to them, because I have one). We introduce ourselves and he gets this Joseph Rogers out with a 5/8 Round point with ivory scales, very nice tool! We sit down and I start going over the hones I have and what each does. I hone the razor being sure to mention the different strokes used and why. I had him look at the edge with the loupe to see the changes as I progressed through the different hones and TPT & TNT. Looking back now, he plans to hone his own razors, I might should have let him hone his own......oh well. Finishing up the razor on the hones I went over stropping the razor and how I clean and maintain mine. He brought his shave brush, and I got him setup for a shave. I stood near by as he asked me to spot him. The band-aids were close by and gauze -lol. I have to say I don't even think I was as confident as this guy was when I did my first straight razor shave. He did a complete shave, and ended up with a few weepers but all in all nothing major. I was impressed, he said he waited for forty years to shave with a straight! (almost as Long as I am old -lol). We learn so much from people older than us. It felt good to teach someone older than me, something. Good deal.....