I gave my face a bit of a break, and it is feeling much better. I tossed the Feather and have sworn them off. The Aristocrat is a fairly aggressive razor, or at least of the 4 razors I own, and even with the mild shaving Dorco blades you can feel the difference in how it shaves. I went with my normal 4 pass shave today, and was able to give a bit of a touch up and buffing.
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I gave my face a bit of a break, and it is feeling much better. I tossed the Feather and have sworn them off. The Aristocrat is a fairly aggressive razor, or at least of the 4 razors I own, and even with the mild shaving Dorco blades you can feel the difference in how it shaves. I went with my normal 4 pass shave today, and was able to give a bit of a touch up and buffing.
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"Erasmic shave cream is one of those old time brand, is it not? how's your experience with it?
read many good review about it, I like old time brands, hmm..maybe I'll have to add another cream."
I've gotten good results with it. Lathers easily and has nice lubricity and cushion.
read many good review about it, I like old time brands, hmm..maybe I'll have to add another cream."
I've gotten good results with it. Lathers easily and has nice lubricity and cushion.
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Today and lately, I've been resting my badgers and synthetic.
Got back to using the Omega boar brush, an inexpensive but very good latherer, whips up soaps much better than the others types of brush.
Cella Almond
New Feather
Merkur Traveller
L'Occitane Baux after-shave balm.
Superb!
Got back to using the Omega boar brush, an inexpensive but very good latherer, whips up soaps much better than the others types of brush.
Cella Almond
New Feather
Merkur Traveller
L'Occitane Baux after-shave balm.
Superb!
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Jack, I can see why you like that straight razor. Its the one in your Avatar. DM
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Got a new razor in yesterday. Muhle R41 open comb. Got so fed up with the plate coming off my Merkurs, they all start shedding plate on the edge of the guard just after 2 years-and I'm careful with them! You can get a nasty scratch from this too. Anyway..
This Muhle feels a LOT BETTER made, but we will see. I like an aggressive razor and this one is really it, I'll have to be more careful. Or, maybe a change of blade, Feather might be too overpowering for this razor? You really don't need much pressure with this one or ATG very much it's ferocious. But, i'm pleased, just need a lighter technique.
Taylor of Old Bond St St. James' Cream
Muhle
Feather
Result, ultra close but a few nicks I have to admit, not used to this but i'm confdent I can tame it.
This Muhle feels a LOT BETTER made, but we will see. I like an aggressive razor and this one is really it, I'll have to be more careful. Or, maybe a change of blade, Feather might be too overpowering for this razor? You really don't need much pressure with this one or ATG very much it's ferocious. But, i'm pleased, just need a lighter technique.
Taylor of Old Bond St St. James' Cream
Muhle
Feather
Result, ultra close but a few nicks I have to admit, not used to this but i'm confdent I can tame it.
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Not sure, it's very 'soft' water as it will produce excellent lather and it doesn't 'fur' up electrical appliances or radiators. Maybe it's the underlying alloy of the razor?? It's not brass but some white metal.
I'm afraid that Merkur might not be what it used to be, the guarantee has been massively downgraded.......
I'm afraid that Merkur might not be what it used to be, the guarantee has been massively downgraded.......
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Just a few guesses : low quality plating/incorrect plating for the application/ contamination during the plating process. Over-cleaning the razor. These things were designed to be used and put away wet, not hit with bleach or scrubbing bubbles on a weekly or daily basis.
The white metal in question is an engineering zinc alloy, one of the Zamak ones, not sure which as they have about a dozen of them with different properties. You can either replate the old razors or have them coated with something, if the ones with plating loss are unusable I'd be happy to try gunkoting one for free just to see if it would make it functional, or work better than plating in a razor application.
The white metal in question is an engineering zinc alloy, one of the Zamak ones, not sure which as they have about a dozen of them with different properties. You can either replate the old razors or have them coated with something, if the ones with plating loss are unusable I'd be happy to try gunkoting one for free just to see if it would make it functional, or work better than plating in a razor application.
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Interesting. As I live in Europe, it's not feasible, but thanks. Certainly not over cleaning, I just wipe them dry, never used polishes or the like. I think the metal is poorly machined and the plate badly applied, it's the edges of the 'guard'/teeth that have lost plate and now leave rough metal which gives scratches to the face!
Another Merkur I have is open comb and this is very fine, BUT it looks like silver plate not chrome as it's yellower, the razor's a bit mild though.
Another Merkur I have is open comb and this is very fine, BUT it looks like silver plate not chrome as it's yellower, the razor's a bit mild though.
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Very cool technology, thanks for sharing!
(I suppose next we'll have those photos in Blade Runner with ridiculously high resolution and built-in parallax!)
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Well, 6 days anyways. I could go with another shave today but figure it's good to let the face rest up once a week. This by the way is the first week of my life that I've shaved 6 days in a row, sometimes more than once a day to get acclimated to my Gillette SuperSpeed.
Soap was Williams, lathered up with my faithful VDH shedomatic boar brush. Now I've been using the williams for a bit longer than the razor, and was getting some fierce face irritation from just the soap, this seems to have gone down for the most part and if I use a few drops of glycerine and a splash of water post shave it feels just fine. I'm not sure at this point if my skin is getting used to it, the irritant is evaporating (scent oil?), or if the Gillette canned stuff I was trying to use up the week before made me sensitive to the Williams soap. Either way I don't see myself using it after I finish this puck off, I get along great with VDH deluxe which is actually less expensive here, and I'll be going through some other options to see if there's any favorites I can stock up on. Back when I'd shave 2 times a week a soap puck seemed to last forever, now it feels like I may get less than a month out of this Williams.
Razor is a 1940's Gillette SuperSpeed, loaded with walmart Wilkinson Sword blades, I've gotten 9 shaves this week out of a single blade, averaging 3 passes + buffing each shave. The last 2 or 3 shaves the blade was noticably duller, but still servicable. 6 solid daily shaves should be no problem for me. There have been zero weepers or nicks and I've been rather careless with it after that first shave, practically waving it across my face with reckless abandon in a way that I wouldn't dare with a mach 3 or Bic sensitive (both of which usually gave me a few nicks on the first shave or two on a new blade). The short handle compared to other razors is no longer a problem, and in some spots makes the razor quite maneuverable.
Overall I'd say I'm a DE convert, I don't consider it a hobby as it were, but I do plan on finding a better brush and few different soaps that I like so I can switch scents whenever I feel like something different.
Soap was Williams, lathered up with my faithful VDH shedomatic boar brush. Now I've been using the williams for a bit longer than the razor, and was getting some fierce face irritation from just the soap, this seems to have gone down for the most part and if I use a few drops of glycerine and a splash of water post shave it feels just fine. I'm not sure at this point if my skin is getting used to it, the irritant is evaporating (scent oil?), or if the Gillette canned stuff I was trying to use up the week before made me sensitive to the Williams soap. Either way I don't see myself using it after I finish this puck off, I get along great with VDH deluxe which is actually less expensive here, and I'll be going through some other options to see if there's any favorites I can stock up on. Back when I'd shave 2 times a week a soap puck seemed to last forever, now it feels like I may get less than a month out of this Williams.
Razor is a 1940's Gillette SuperSpeed, loaded with walmart Wilkinson Sword blades, I've gotten 9 shaves this week out of a single blade, averaging 3 passes + buffing each shave. The last 2 or 3 shaves the blade was noticably duller, but still servicable. 6 solid daily shaves should be no problem for me. There have been zero weepers or nicks and I've been rather careless with it after that first shave, practically waving it across my face with reckless abandon in a way that I wouldn't dare with a mach 3 or Bic sensitive (both of which usually gave me a few nicks on the first shave or two on a new blade). The short handle compared to other razors is no longer a problem, and in some spots makes the razor quite maneuverable.
Overall I'd say I'm a DE convert, I don't consider it a hobby as it were, but I do plan on finding a better brush and few different soaps that I like so I can switch scents whenever I feel like something different.