Chan Eil Whiskers
Fumbling about.
There's gotta be a better way...
Today I received a very nice Segal razor + an excellent Schaeffer razor.
They have a lot in common; I've read the Schaeffer was made by Segal, or licensed by Segal, or is a Segal clone. In any case, they use the same blade.
One of my razors came with an actual Segal branded blade. You can see in the photo how the blade has to fit around a raised area, so there is a large central cavity in the Segal blade.
I've read the various threads and such on the internet about how to convert an ordinary DE blade into a Segal clone blade.
It involves putting a regular DE blade into a holder (such as the cap of a Gillette NEW), and placing a Segal blade over it. Then the outline of the Segal blade's interior hole can be traced onto the ordinary DE blade with a fine tipped sharpie.
Following this, one uses cuticle scissors (curved) to cut slightly outside of the drawn line on the DE blade.
Simple, right?
In theory this is easy enough.
In practice it's not so easy. I managed to make three Segal clone blades. None were 100% large enough in their opening because I didn't quite cut outside of the lines, but all of them work in a kinda sorta way. I used new and very high quality cuticle scissors, but the scissors had a hard time of it.
I kept think there's got to be a better way.
I've read everything I can find on the subject and better ways have been proposed, but has anybody actually come up with a working method of making the blades without cutting them with cuticle scissors.
I'll get better with some practice.
Yes, that's got to be the truth. I don't mind sacrificing some blades to achieve a more skilled hand at this, but that doesn't mean there isn't a better way.
I've not used either of my razors yet but I've read they're good shavers and worth the trouble.
Anybody solve the problem and have a solution to share.
Happy shaves,
Jim
Today I received a very nice Segal razor + an excellent Schaeffer razor.
They have a lot in common; I've read the Schaeffer was made by Segal, or licensed by Segal, or is a Segal clone. In any case, they use the same blade.
One of my razors came with an actual Segal branded blade. You can see in the photo how the blade has to fit around a raised area, so there is a large central cavity in the Segal blade.
I've read the various threads and such on the internet about how to convert an ordinary DE blade into a Segal clone blade.
It involves putting a regular DE blade into a holder (such as the cap of a Gillette NEW), and placing a Segal blade over it. Then the outline of the Segal blade's interior hole can be traced onto the ordinary DE blade with a fine tipped sharpie.
Following this, one uses cuticle scissors (curved) to cut slightly outside of the drawn line on the DE blade.
Simple, right?
In theory this is easy enough.
In practice it's not so easy. I managed to make three Segal clone blades. None were 100% large enough in their opening because I didn't quite cut outside of the lines, but all of them work in a kinda sorta way. I used new and very high quality cuticle scissors, but the scissors had a hard time of it.
I kept think there's got to be a better way.
I've read everything I can find on the subject and better ways have been proposed, but has anybody actually come up with a working method of making the blades without cutting them with cuticle scissors.
I'll get better with some practice.
Yes, that's got to be the truth. I don't mind sacrificing some blades to achieve a more skilled hand at this, but that doesn't mean there isn't a better way.
I've not used either of my razors yet but I've read they're good shavers and worth the trouble.
Anybody solve the problem and have a solution to share.
Happy shaves,
Jim