Thread: Split from Finishing to Wiki discussion

Originally Posted by BeBerlin

Just out of curiosity: What is missing in Beginner's Guide to Honing - Straight Razor Place Wiki to help a beginner decide which way to go?

Glen and Jimmy already answered the question. (You do me too much credit, Jimmy)
Honing a razor to basic shavereadiness is easy. I'm trying NOT to offend anyone, and let me inform you all up front that it took me almost three months before I could manage to make a razor shaveready in a repeatable manner. But I believe most gentlemen ariving here are gamma males. Stray dogs that don't like the middle of the road. Stupborners that like to say "thanks but no thanks" and figure out their own ways. Men that like a personal twist to life. It takes one to know one, I guess.
So most guys that take the honing route, read a bit on the basic honing section, digest a bit of Wiki, and catch a few advanced honing threads before they start brewing their own personal honing recipe. It takes much more time before such a recipe is tweaked to something that actually works. If they're like me, they also have problems with swallowing pride, which adds another month to the process.
Smarter gamma males that take the mentor route, don't have those problems, because they first learn to copy the recipe from a guy that already knows business, and take it form there.

In the end, that all doesn't matter. The razor doesn't know the assh0le using it.

Just my way of saying I like this place, and there's nothing wrong with the Wiki.
Bart.