So, there is a progression, a guy learns to strop a razor and is amazed that he can keep an edge going on a $10 razor. There is blood, it burns, but we’ll just pretend we didn’t see that, it is manly.
Then he gets a synthetic finish stone, 8k -12k and a 20x loupe, learns what a bevel set edge looks like and that he can refresh an edge, life is good. Combined with found stropping skills, he can shave without blood, well, much blood.
A guy finds vintage hollow ground razors, film, and a sharp edge, a little harsh but, OMG sharp and the bevels look so uniform and cool under the USB scope.
Paste, the grit from Zeus’ tears, holy mole and HHT, cutting every hair he can find, well maybe not the first time. Shaves like a laser, still a little harsh on the skin but, “I’m shaving with a freaking Laser, man. Stand Clear!”
Then a guy figures, I been reading about natural stones for years, and “they” were right about everything else, so a dip into natural stones on the cheap, small coticules, Sham Wow Slates, hard eBay mystery stones and slurry, silky, muddy, sweet slurry. Thinks, I cut a fat hog in the Asterisk, don’t need to spend a hundred dollars on a Natural finisher… or do I?
Fights it, night sweats, restless nights. Buys a small hard Ark, Kopa Jnat, or both. Wrestles the stone, mano a mano. But one day the planets align and the Laser edge with no burn is born, like shaving with a letter opener. Shazam!
Read more, what the Fauci, is this Nagura Bolshevik slurry?
Whaaaat? Levels of nagura edges, tailor an edge to a smoking laser? Lightning in a mason jar.
Burnish an Ark, real weight of the blade strokes. Head is going to implode.
Then, what have I done? Endless progressions, more stones, large stones, pretty stones, fast stones, hard stones, large Arks, New Arks, Vintage Arks, Translucent and real, hard Blacks, nagura, tomo, more tomo, and slurry, glorious slurry, thick, thin, fast and smooth, honey butter on a hot biscuit.
I got to pare down, where is the end, where is this 2%, did I blow right past it? Simplify, eliminate the variables. How little can I get by with and still get the laser butterknife? Only needs a bevel setter, a good Jnat a nagura or two or a slick as snot hard vintage Ark.
What he does not realize is his hands have learned a ship-load of technique.
See, honing is easy…
Then, one day an epiphany, “Maybe if I buy better razors, much better razors…”
Then he gets a synthetic finish stone, 8k -12k and a 20x loupe, learns what a bevel set edge looks like and that he can refresh an edge, life is good. Combined with found stropping skills, he can shave without blood, well, much blood.
A guy finds vintage hollow ground razors, film, and a sharp edge, a little harsh but, OMG sharp and the bevels look so uniform and cool under the USB scope.
Paste, the grit from Zeus’ tears, holy mole and HHT, cutting every hair he can find, well maybe not the first time. Shaves like a laser, still a little harsh on the skin but, “I’m shaving with a freaking Laser, man. Stand Clear!”
Then a guy figures, I been reading about natural stones for years, and “they” were right about everything else, so a dip into natural stones on the cheap, small coticules, Sham Wow Slates, hard eBay mystery stones and slurry, silky, muddy, sweet slurry. Thinks, I cut a fat hog in the Asterisk, don’t need to spend a hundred dollars on a Natural finisher… or do I?
Fights it, night sweats, restless nights. Buys a small hard Ark, Kopa Jnat, or both. Wrestles the stone, mano a mano. But one day the planets align and the Laser edge with no burn is born, like shaving with a letter opener. Shazam!
Read more, what the Fauci, is this Nagura Bolshevik slurry?
Whaaaat? Levels of nagura edges, tailor an edge to a smoking laser? Lightning in a mason jar.
Burnish an Ark, real weight of the blade strokes. Head is going to implode.
Then, what have I done? Endless progressions, more stones, large stones, pretty stones, fast stones, hard stones, large Arks, New Arks, Vintage Arks, Translucent and real, hard Blacks, nagura, tomo, more tomo, and slurry, glorious slurry, thick, thin, fast and smooth, honey butter on a hot biscuit.
I got to pare down, where is the end, where is this 2%, did I blow right past it? Simplify, eliminate the variables. How little can I get by with and still get the laser butterknife? Only needs a bevel setter, a good Jnat a nagura or two or a slick as snot hard vintage Ark.
What he does not realize is his hands have learned a ship-load of technique.
See, honing is easy…
Then, one day an epiphany, “Maybe if I buy better razors, much better razors…”