Presenting my November restraint breaker -
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It arrived yesterday, and I tried to clean it up before sleeping last night. It didn't clean up that well - means it didn't get any shinier, but the treatment must have definitely helped in sanitizing. Here are the cleaned up pics taken with my phone -
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The design is quite similar to a Single ring, but look at the very curious head geometry. In fact this was one thing influencing my decision to buy it. Price, of course, was the other. As you can see, the blade sits in the head without any flex whatsoever, and is really sticking out straight perpendicular to the handle. There is a very slight curve in the base plate which is also evident from the gap you see at the ends, and see the unevenness of the corner teeth. Fortunately, none of these affect the shave adversely.
I couldn't resist giving it a spin and shaved with it today. As expected, this is one aggressive tool. I had about 33-34 hours of growth, and the razor was singing loudly during the first pass. I think this is by far the loudest razor in my arsenal (can't say about the R41 I have received last week since I'm yet to use it), and believe me, I have a few singers.
Gave me a nice 2 pass DFS+ with a little bit of touching up in the usual trouble areas. It is about 6 hours now, and my face still feels way smoother than the times when I shave with my less mild razors.
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It arrived yesterday, and I tried to clean it up before sleeping last night. It didn't clean up that well - means it didn't get any shinier, but the treatment must have definitely helped in sanitizing. Here are the cleaned up pics taken with my phone -
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The design is quite similar to a Single ring, but look at the very curious head geometry. In fact this was one thing influencing my decision to buy it. Price, of course, was the other. As you can see, the blade sits in the head without any flex whatsoever, and is really sticking out straight perpendicular to the handle. There is a very slight curve in the base plate which is also evident from the gap you see at the ends, and see the unevenness of the corner teeth. Fortunately, none of these affect the shave adversely.
I couldn't resist giving it a spin and shaved with it today. As expected, this is one aggressive tool. I had about 33-34 hours of growth, and the razor was singing loudly during the first pass. I think this is by far the loudest razor in my arsenal (can't say about the R41 I have received last week since I'm yet to use it), and believe me, I have a few singers.
Gave me a nice 2 pass DFS+ with a little bit of touching up in the usual trouble areas. It is about 6 hours now, and my face still feels way smoother than the times when I shave with my less mild razors.
