I am a member of a couple of other shave forums, and today when I logged in to one of them, a new member had asked a question; What am I doing wrong?
A fair question in every aspect of life, if something doesn't work like you expect it to.
Here is his story behind the question (and be warned it is not for the faint hearted):
He thought straight shaving could be fun so he acquired a straight, but he didn't feel it was sharp enough so he had stropped it good without result.
As he wrote, it didn't get any sharper on the leather strop.
To sharpen the razor he then used the knife-sharpener they have in the kitchen and the razor got sharp but when he used it for shaving it tugged and pulled.
He thought it still wasn't sharp enough so he gave it another run on the knife-sharpener but it still tugged and pulled, hence his question.
A part of me can't help laughing at it, another larger part is terrified, and yet another part is quite baffled.
After digesting the story and thinking it over; the poor guy did the best to solve the problem to his knowledge.
You can't really blame him for not knowing that there is a difference between the edge of a kitchen knife and a razor and that you can't use a knife-sharpener to sharpen a straight.
Still it is toe curling and sends chills down my spine thinking of it
A fair question in every aspect of life, if something doesn't work like you expect it to.
Here is his story behind the question (and be warned it is not for the faint hearted):
He thought straight shaving could be fun so he acquired a straight, but he didn't feel it was sharp enough so he had stropped it good without result.
As he wrote, it didn't get any sharper on the leather strop.
To sharpen the razor he then used the knife-sharpener they have in the kitchen and the razor got sharp but when he used it for shaving it tugged and pulled.
He thought it still wasn't sharp enough so he gave it another run on the knife-sharpener but it still tugged and pulled, hence his question.
A part of me can't help laughing at it, another larger part is terrified, and yet another part is quite baffled.
After digesting the story and thinking it over; the poor guy did the best to solve the problem to his knowledge.
You can't really blame him for not knowing that there is a difference between the edge of a kitchen knife and a razor and that you can't use a knife-sharpener to sharpen a straight.
Still it is toe curling and sends chills down my spine thinking of it