Quote Originally Posted by xman View Post
this thread is very hot and I am a very busy guy right now so I have a request. Could someone please quote me so I can find your response, reply to this and catch me up, as impartially as possible, as to nature of the proposed experiment and the general camps or viewpoints of the participants?

Please and thank-you very much.

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Quote Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT View Post
Joe and I both share a certain amount of scientific skepticism. What you gentlemen are suggesting goes against tonsorial tradition, accumulated experience and the accepted modern theories, which leads us to believe one of the following:
1) You are honestly mistaken and have extremely thick skins and/or high tolerance for discomfort and/or low standards for shave closeness. (This also implies that your blades are sub-par)
2) Your strops have certain abrasive properties because mine sure can't keep a razor going past 15 shaves.
3) You're pulling our collective leg. (least likely)
The way I'd set up the experiment is:
1) Have Lynn find a razor to Scott's specs and hone/shave test it.
2) Have Tony M. send you a brand new strop, that only received stock treatment.
3) Have Scott use it for 100 shaves without using any hones or dressing the strop with anything other than Tony's stock strop dressing.
4) Have it sent back to Lynn for a re-evaluation.
That is ofcourse if the 3 gentlemen in question would agree to the experiment.

X This is where the whole experiment thing started but for opinions and arguments you really have to read the whole thing.