Does this razor not shave particularly close, ever?
I did a 2 pass shave today, first shave XTG one direction, second was XTG in another direction, and the shave was about on par with what I could get with an electric shaver in about a minute or two - OK and passable but not DFS. The only saving grace seems to be that this blade is comfortable and it's lasted almost two weeks, in fact once I got over the first week hurdle, the blade seemed to improve in smoothness.
I did a 2 pass shave today, first shave XTG one direction, second was XTG in another direction, and the shave was about on par with what I could get with an electric shaver in about a minute or two - OK and passable but not DFS. The only saving grace seems to be that this blade is comfortable and it's lasted almost two weeks, in fact once I got over the first week hurdle, the blade seemed to improve in smoothness.