CzechCzar
Use the Fat, Luke!
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Of course that''s what people are doing. They want a bigger handle for the Piccolo they already have, so they cheat the Amazon return policy to get it. Bad karma.Well the Schone razor showed up...with a Piccolo handle.
Sending it back. A few other buyers had the same thing happen and suggested it may be people swapping handles and sending them back. I dunno, I may try again.
Hi everybody, I'm new here and this is my first post. Anyway, what with being locked down and everything I decided to get back into wet shaving a bit. So to up my game I ordered the Fatip open comb slant, and it finally arrived today!
It seems awesome, way heavier than my old Merkur, but I have a quick question. When I unscrew the handle, it takes some force to separate the other two pieces (as if the pillars are not properly aligned with the holes?). And even when I put in a blade, I had to twist the blade a little bit to get it to go over the pillars.
Anyway, everything fit together nice and easy on my old Merkur so I was wondering if something is messed up? Or maybe this seeming misalignment is just a normal thing? Did I get something a razor that is off spec in some way? I don't want to be sad if this is totally normal.
Thanks!
Congrats on getting a FOCS!Hi everybody, I'm new here and this is my first post. Anyway, what with being locked down and everything I decided to get back into wet shaving a bit. So to up my game I ordered the Fatip open comb slant, and it finally arrived today!
It seems awesome, way heavier than my old Merkur, but I have a quick question. When I unscrew the handle, it takes some force to separate the other two pieces (as if the pillars are not properly aligned with the holes?). And even when I put in a blade, I had to twist the blade a little bit to get it to go over the pillars.
Anyway, everything fit together nice and easy on my old Merkur so I was wondering if something is messed up? Or maybe this seeming misalignment is just a normal thing? Did I get something a razor that is off spec in some way? I don't want to be sad if this is totally normal.
Thanks!
On the other hand, I learned something from the "photo shoot": I tried to remove the blade and it was actually kind of difficult, and I had to apply enough force that the blade flew out. (It was easier to put the blade in than remove it because I could jam it in by pushing, and there was nothing for me push to take it out. I tried "walking" it as suggested in an earlier post, and the blade was so jammed in that there was no walking to be done---this is what photo three is trying to show.) I think the odds of me cutting myself taking blades out are about 100%. So I think I'm going to see if I can get a replacement...
You think correctly, I think. Futzing with it sitting here typing this, the blade binds on both posts and the stud, I think. The tolerances are so tight that I cant lift the blade straight off the cap. The only way I can get the blade off the cap without turning into the frustrated green monster that likes to SMASH is to hold the blade by the tabs and walk it off one end at a time and I can only do that when I hold the cap down with one fingertip on the stud or I'll lift it right off my desk and may do something I shouldnt, perhaps yet, do lol.
The Polsilver wouldnt come oooouuuuuutttt!
Finally, I laid a towel on the kitchen counter and started THROWING the cap at it. On the FIFTH throw, I heard the blade rattle and I was able to get the ******* no good piece of **** off so I could load a fresh Feather.
PITA ***/Fresh Feather.
Wickham Shangri La.
Maggard syn.
To keep things on a level field, three passes, one clean up.
A little scrapey, a little harsh. Not a bad shave but the juice sure aint worth the squeeze.
If this Feather blade wont come off like that last Polsilver...
My MMOC is giggling.
I knew I should have waited for a gold one from a later run. Fatip would have all these little aggravations worked out by then.
It binds on the threads in the stud and gets stuck which doesnt make a lot of sense because the OD of the threads on the stud are .0173" and the ID of the center hole in the blade is .2". That should leave enough wiggle room for the blade to both drop on and come off the cap easily. I even dropped the cap with the blade seated like in the picture above and it still didnt come off.
My thinking is, if the blade can bind when seated, it can also bind as its being seated. If that were to happen, the edge would have an unnatural bend in it which would lead to the scraping feeling.