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RogerS wrote:Wonder if it depends on what type of hair it is you're shaving ?
Trevanion wrote:They weren't using rounded bevels, obviously.
D_W wrote:Separately, you might recognize my user ID - I've been down the road eyeballing razor edges for about a decade to figure out how to get the damage to stop, and with a straight razor, avoid honing away rare solingen-foche razors that can't be replaced.
TrimTheKing wrote:Welcome to the Haven D_WD_W wrote:Separately, you might recognize my user ID - I've been down the road eyeballing razor edges for about a decade to figure out how to get the damage to stop, and with a straight razor, avoid honing away rare solingen-foche razors that can't be replaced.
That’s all very good and so long as it stays at eyeballing and doesn’t turn into evangelising about specific sharpening techniques then everything will be peachy.
That subject never leads to anything other than arguments and has long since been banished from this corner of the woodworking Internet.
9fingers wrote:Hi D_W,
Reading your output I'm reminded of the quotation from one of your countrymen, Thomas Jefferson
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two (ten?) words when one will do."
Please do tell us about your woodworking projects and as pictures are worth 1000 words then please include some photos to save your typing fingers.
Bob
9fingers wrote:Hi D_W,
Reading your output I'm reminded of the quotation from one of your countrymen, Thomas Jefferson
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two (ten?) words when one will do." Bob
Richard wrote:9fingers wrote:Hi D_W,
Reading your output I'm reminded of the quotation from one of your countrymen, Thomas Jefferson
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two (ten?) words when one will do." Bob
In the field of educational theory and academic practice I think the motto is the opposite because verbosity, inaccessibility and obfuscation (bull manure) seem to be valued traits, i.e., 'never use one word where ten will do'. Slainte.
Richard wrote:9fingers wrote:Hi D_W,
Reading your output I'm reminded of the quotation from one of your countrymen, Thomas Jefferson
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two (ten?) words when one will do." Bob
In the field of educational theory and academic practice I think the motto is the opposite because verbosity, inaccessibility and obfuscation (bull manure) seem to be valued traits, i.e., 'never use one word where ten will do'. Slainte.
RogerS wrote:verisimilitude
AKA You're right.
D_W wrote:Richard wrote:9fingers wrote:Hi D_W,
Reading your output I'm reminded of the quotation from one of your countrymen, Thomas Jefferson
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two (ten?) words when one will do." Bob
In the field of educational theory and academic practice I think the motto is the opposite because verbosity, inaccessibility and obfuscation (bull manure) seem to be valued traits, i.e., 'never use one word where ten will do'. Slainte.
Don't make me send you 14 emails with pictures of planed surfaces and split silica particles, Richard!!
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