Concur. :rock:
I had requested and received a new Thiers-Issard two birthdays ago, my initial foray into straight razors.
It claimed to be ready to shave out of the wrapper.
Several tries later, it just felt like a bad electric shave.
Now that I have the honing stones and have made my initial outing on sharpening this thing, we'll see how it goes.
Having learned to play highland bagpipe, I anticipate it will go just fine.
Cheers,
Chris