Originally Posted by
Pabster
Good for starters and seeing if you enjoy the feel of staight edge shaving along with the prep work, but when you move to a fixed straight, it may not "feel" as sharp and you may have to take 3x passes (wtg, xtg, atg) to get the same results. Plus, you have to take in all the learning curve of keeping it sharp.
I will still keep my Feather knockoff and use it occasionally as I have come to appreciate its non forgiving performance and that nasty point comes in handy for little detail work.
I am begining to understand why a person has more than one straight and I will likely be up to 3 by the end of 2009. :cool:
Pabster