Indeed!... The "One Blade in February Challenge" is a lot of fun every year. All the participants are "the winners," and I salute them! It's fun and instructive toward good technique to push the blade to it's limit.
Indeed!... The "One Blade in February Challenge" is a lot of fun every year. All the participants are "the winners," and I salute them! It's fun and instructive toward good technique to push the blade to it's limit.
UK Wilkinson Light Brigade (42). Yes, it is the Energizer bunny.
Derby (56).
I have been doing my best to kill this blade by using it with my R41 and ATT H2 and other super-aggressive razors. Recently, I thought that I had succeeded, but now I'm not so sure. I compared it to a fresh Wilkie and found the performance to be effectively identical. Back to work ...
This is the very odd thing about this blade.UK Wilkinson Sword Light Brigade (50).
I have been doing my best to kill this blade by using it with my R41 and ATT H2 and other super-aggressive razors. Recently, I thought that I had succeeded, but now I'm not so sure. I compared it to a fresh Wilkie and found the performance to be effectively identical. Back to work ...
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Listen to it and it will teach you a few things about shaving!
I know the feeling about loading one of these Wilkies again!... I have no desire to use any blade for 100+ shaves, but I could not toss this valiant soldier until it showed at least the tiniest sign of deterioration. So, I subjected it to the most abusive treatment I could devise. Even then, it survived another 24 (3.5 pass) shaves and could clearly continue on for dozens more in mild/medium razors.
Next February, I will not use a Wilkinson blade ...
Derby (80).
Derby (90).
Indeed!Excellent. You need to stop by the Excalibur club .
Derby (100). That's it for me.
Nice to each the "century mark." (I only got 83 "Derby shaves" last year.)
If I'm still around next year, I'll try harder.