Experience will do away with any need to numerically count one's passes on the strop.
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Experience will do away with any need to numerically count one's passes on the strop.
If the lather stays on the edge when rinsing the blade, it's too dry.
Like a fragile bird
Gently grasped in one's fingers
Razors should be held
OCD ??? You want OCD ??? .... I count both directions & divide by 2 !!!
WineGuyD's Law: "Anything that can be cut with a straight razor will get cut!"
"It [a knife] is like a wife: every night, you had better stroke it."
-Bolivar, the cook, Lonesome Dove
And, while not strictly related, it does involve something sharp, Haiku, and, being the best piece of poetry I have ever written, I try to work it into conversation:
The guillotine slide
The birds dim their cheerful chirp
Someone gets a mop
-Michael