I've shaved with a fancy 'custom' damascus hunting knife before. I was lending a hand to a buddy who's a pretty big time pro photographer. he was doing a 'serengeti/safari' them with some whiny pretty boy model. Came time for a shaving shot with the knife and my buddy and the pretty boy were calling over one of the 'assistants' to pre shave his face. I asked WTF. They said, 'well, he can't shave with that'. Used a leather rifle sling to strop it real quick and went to work shaving....pretty boy had to actually shave with it after that