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3 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
Four full weeks of the same edge with no honing or stropping. I’m not sure I understand why us straight razor shavers are so amazed by this. Anyone who takes a DE blade or SE blade this same distance is very likely doing the same thing. I continue to think that stropping is highly overrated, though pretty much everyone else takes the opposite view :)
Here is what the edge looks like after today’s shave. And the shave today was very comfortable and about the same level of BBS as my normal 2-pass shave. I have noticed a reduction in edge keenness.
August 28, 2025
3 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
Four full weeks of the same edge with no honing or stropping. I’m not sure I understand why us straight razor shavers are so amazed by this. Anyone who takes a DE blade or SE blade this same distance is very likely doing the same thing. I continue to think that stropping is highly overrated, though pretty much everyone else takes the opposite view :)
Here is what the edge looks like after today’s shave. And the shave today was very comfortable and about the same level of BBS as my normal 2-pass shave. I have noticed a reduction in edge keenness.
Edge Microscope Images
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Heretic!
I know! I’m told it’s a bad idea to cross the cognoscenti.
First people start neglecting stropping, and finally, they end up believing that neither the phlogiston nor ether exists 😱
Principiis obsta!
Wait! People believe that phlogiston and ether don’t exist?!
Poor victims of conspiracy theories!
Suckers! I’m told that all stories I see on the internet that align with my views are true.
We need Principiis Obsta tee shirts, btw
Absolutely! Sublemmy exlusive swag!
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After my experiment today, I’d say it probably depends on the razor :-)
I would think so. Sheffield (?) steel on those old wedges is very soft.
Sheffield, indeed. “Cutlers to their majesties. No. 6 Norfolk Street Sheffield”
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