Thread: Poor results of straight shaving - very disappointed

I have 2 straight razors honed by a hone meister . . .

I won't claim to be a "hone meister" until I've done a lot more sharpening. "Hone beginner" is more truthful.

One of those razors (the Gold Dollar) is not very good -- I tried it, and didn't like it. Just not sharp enough.

But the other - a "Ski" brand Solingen razor, made by ERN -- is a nice blade. When I shave-tested it, it wiped the hair off my face very smoothly.

It takes _time and experience_, as everyone has said, to get a good shave with a straight razor. A strop will also help. Without a strop, each time you use a razor, it gets a little bit duller.

Wnen I started using a straight razor, I also wondered:

. . . "Why am I doing this ?"

I was trying to figure out how much of the trouble was _me_, and how much was _the razor_. A little bit of each. When I got a Dovo that Lynn (of Straight Razor Designs) honed, I knew that whatever trouble was left, was _my_ trouble.

Charles