I don't have a Telstar but given other comparisons it is guaranteed to be more if not much more aggressive.Is this cartridge Yai Halequin much more aggressive even than the Yaqi Telstar?
I don't have a Telstar but given other comparisons it is guaranteed to be more if not much more aggressive.Is this cartridge Yai Halequin much more aggressive even than the Yaqi Telstar?
No problem, i think this post / conversation can help others in the same situation, lastly i didn't got the Tile head so i'm still interested to get another shave head. But after looking at the Yaqi sentinel post that is around here now i have my eyes on other Yaqi heads, but i still like the Tile because the top of the head is very flat, l have trouble shaving under my nose a lot but maybe that's because my technique is not good enough, i feel heads with big round tops make it harder. The Telstar will be my next zinc allow head acquisition.I am a bit late to the party. Voted Telstar since you said you want a steep angle shaver. But the Telstar is more aggressive than all the 3 past razors you mentioned in your first post. It has 1.15mm gap and some serious exposure. The moment you go to neutral or shallow angle you start getting unexpected cuts.
A bigger gap doesn't always mean more exposure. Imagine a 1.30 gap razor with negative exposure of -0.15. It will not be aggressive neither it will shave close. Actually it probaly won't shave close at all. On the other hand a razor with an exposure of +0.25 but a gap of 0.40 will not necessarily give you a close shave.I have a question for the more experienced shavers, a bigger gap always means more aggression? or blade exposure is a bigger factor. And correct me if i'm wrong, but a more aggressive shave head ≠ more efficiency. Those two factors are somewhat related but they not always go hand to hand.
I think i understood, thanks for the explanation.A bigger gap doesn't always mean more exposure. Imagine a 1.30 gap razor with negative exposure of -0.15. It will not be aggressive neither it will shave close. Actually it probaly won't shave close at all. On the other hand a razor with an exposure of +0.25 but a gap of 0.40 will not necessarily give you a close shave.
The closeness of shave of aggressiveness are not only defined by the gap and the exposure. There are at least 2 other important parameters of a head that are very often ignored. Degree of bending and clamping. The clamping actually can be divided into two or more factors. How strong is the clamping and what percentage of the blade is clamped strongly. I could even tell you there is one more thing related to the clamping - where the blade is clamped. Let's not forget the blade reaveal plays a certain role too (How much of the blade is uncovered by the cap when you look from above, not to be mistaken for exposure).
And finally I can recommend to you the Yaqi scalloped head that looks like DE89. It is more aggressive than DE89, but often you might need a bit of manual alignment. I like it so much that I bought more than 10 spares.
My guess is you didn't exactly catch my point. Gap and exposure are not the only factors. You forget about bending and clamping.Would you say that a bigger blade gap than .40 lets say something around .90 / 1 with positive blade exposure, lets say .25 to .5 would tend to be aggressive?
Those pictures are very confusing because they don't show a razor but a person. It is about the blade angle ralative to the skin. Shallow means you ride the cap. Steep means you ride the guard (the handle is almost parallel to the skin surface).Looking at this image, seems i been mixing what it means shallow and steep angles.