GIVEAWAY! Participation PIF: Surf vs Turf - Battle of the Beast Blades!!
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Congrats! BTW what razor are you using & getting all these nicks.
I have been using a Gillette Flat Bottom New this week. Open Comb razors and myself are not the best of friends. I thought having a crack at OCtober for a month might help me out but maybe not.
Congrats! BTW what razor are you using & getting all these nicks.
Surf versus Turf Battle of the Beast Blades 2023 final shave.
Last shave in this Battle of the Beast blades for 2023. Last shave with my last blade the Pink/Blue Flying Eagle. Weepers galore this morning, several on both cheeks and a weeper on the point of my chin. Plenty of sting when I used my Alum Block. What a final week, was it me, the blade, the razor or a combination of all three. Anyway, a special thanks to @Grundi and @AnimalCatcher and @lasta and @Chard52142 for supplying the blades for this Battle and sending out the blades worldwide. It has been a very interesting experience.
Jianyu Blade #2 Shave #7
Still producing an acceptable shave. Perhaps not quite as sharp as I would like. Smooth though
Still producing an acceptable shave. Perhaps not quite as sharp as I would like. Smooth though
Sorry for the Long absence. I have been testing the ZAZA blade using a Superspeed and juriken Turkish soap with a blue tipped badger brush. I am on shave six. This blade each shave has had to cut down a jungle a week or more of growth and do it in a hurry each shave. Each time, it succeeded with no nicks, scraps, or cuts. I had to do very little touch up work, and in one case got by with basically a one pass shave with little touch up. I am debating about making these my travel blades to use as back up on the road when my main blade needs to be changed out. I have yet to notice significant dulling. All things considered due to how thick my facial hair or beard in a couple cases was, this is a high feet.
ZAZA blades are junk unless you have peach fuzz for a beard IMO.
Maybe I got different batch of blades. That was my experience with them.
I am not part of the official PIF, but @lasta has provided me with the mentioned Beast Blades - so I thought I would drop by nonetheless. Here are my summary results. More about my scoring system/method can be found here.
By comparison I used a Shark Chrome blade for 18 shaves with different razors with only the last shave scoring 7.5. All other scores were 8-9 which in my systems equals DFS+(++) to BBS results. The Rhino blade is the only one I see coming close to those results, but with varying levels of comfort depending on the razor. The pink Flying Eagle (I am currently using a second blade) is the worst of the blades. Or at least I cannot get it to work for me.
I had much fun in trying out these different blades. I see it as one step closer to finding the one blade to rule them all (which I may have already found in the Dorco Titan, but variety is the spice of life!). Thanks @lasta!
| Razorblade | Razor | Shave | Effectiveness | Comfort |
| Rhino | Mühle R41 | 1 | 8 | 10 |
| Rhino | Timeless Ti95 | 2+3 | 7 | 9 |
| Rhino | NEW Short Comb | 4+5 | 8 | 7.5 |
| Rhino | Flat Bottom Tech | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Flying Eagle (pink) | Lambda Athena | 1+2 | 8 | 8 |
| Flying Eagle (pink) | Gillette Aristocrat | 3 | 7 | 8 |
| Flying Eagle (pink) | New Improved | 4+5 | 7 | 8 |
| Jianyu | Razorine Flatboy | 1 | 7 | 6 |
| Jianyu | NEW RFB | 2 | 8 | 10 |
By comparison I used a Shark Chrome blade for 18 shaves with different razors with only the last shave scoring 7.5. All other scores were 8-9 which in my systems equals DFS+(++) to BBS results. The Rhino blade is the only one I see coming close to those results, but with varying levels of comfort depending on the razor. The pink Flying Eagle (I am currently using a second blade) is the worst of the blades. Or at least I cannot get it to work for me.
I had much fun in trying out these different blades. I see it as one step closer to finding the one blade to rule them all (which I may have already found in the Dorco Titan, but variety is the spice of life!). Thanks @lasta!
My last blade to test was the super max.
It gave an average shave was a little uneven, no nicks. I’m fairly certain it will be dull after 5 shaves. I’m on shave 3.
It gave an average shave was a little uneven, no nicks. I’m fairly certain it will be dull after 5 shaves. I’m on shave 3.
It is "July in Christmas"
Tidying up my storage shelf this morning I discovered the second purple Flying Eagle, fresh and unused. Being my frugal self, I thought I would employ it for today's shave.
Looking back at my entries in July, this blade was ejected from competition as the only blade that drew blood. Perhaps the first blade was a dud. Well, this morning's shave proved that I just don't get along with this blade. Well, at least it got used once.
Tidying up my storage shelf this morning I discovered the second purple Flying Eagle, fresh and unused. Being my frugal self, I thought I would employ it for today's shave.
Looking back at my entries in July, this blade was ejected from competition as the only blade that drew blood. Perhaps the first blade was a dud. Well, this morning's shave proved that I just don't get along with this blade. Well, at least it got used once.
It seems that your a day late & a dollar short on doing this blade review.
Had I remembered the blade was disqualified in July I would have passed over it this morning.It seems that your a day late & a dollar short on doing this blade review.
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I’ll pop this thread back up today. I found a Pink/Yellow Flying Eagle. I snapped it in half and used it in my Parker SoloEdge. Had this not hidden away I wouldn’t have been able to use it in this recently released razor. First use.
The shave was pleasant, close and efficient. The Pink/Yellow wasn’t the best of these blades. Still quite nice
The shave was pleasant, close and efficient. The Pink/Yellow wasn’t the best of these blades. Still quite nice
