The Blackbird Lite Titanium dropped today. Check it out on Blackland’s website. Thank you, Shane!
Blackbird Lite Titanium
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Fantastic shave. Really a 3 pass shave is BBS and smooth.
Thanks for your review, enjoy your shaves!
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Thanks for your initial assessment of the Blackbird Ti Lite!
"The Blackbird Experience with half the blade feel."
Captures the essence in a snap.
Captures the essence in a snap.
After a week of shaving exclusively with a BB Ti and using many great soap bases (Ethos, B&M Omnibus, WK Tallow + Donkey, GD Kairos, etc..) I have an update and rating.
First I should say, I have a moderate to thick beard (Italian descent) and I have to folliculitis and psoriasis. In other words if I’m not careful I’m a mess for a few days.
My daily shaver to compare to is a Carbon Ti - .068 original plate. The BB Ti Lite is surprisingly comfortable, capable of a complete BBS with a tiny bit of work on the jaw line, and just a pleasure.
I would rate the original blackbird Ti as a 9 in efficiency and 6 in comfort and 7 in smoothness (I have several still).
The Lite Ti I would rate a 9 in comfort, 9 in smoothness and a 6-7 in efficiency (depending if I feel like a jawline touch up).
Where it would struggle is if I let my facial hair grow 4-5 days and tried to mow it down… that the original blackbird would be better suited for. So for shaves every 1-3 days where you value comfort, smoothness and efficiency, I think the Lite is phenomenal. It’s a different razor than the BB Ti, in a good way, but maintains much of the BB shaving characteristics.
For my skin, it’s the blackbird I always needed.
In fact, I may order a second Lite plate as my travel razor.
First I should say, I have a moderate to thick beard (Italian descent) and I have to folliculitis and psoriasis. In other words if I’m not careful I’m a mess for a few days.
My daily shaver to compare to is a Carbon Ti - .068 original plate. The BB Ti Lite is surprisingly comfortable, capable of a complete BBS with a tiny bit of work on the jaw line, and just a pleasure.
I would rate the original blackbird Ti as a 9 in efficiency and 6 in comfort and 7 in smoothness (I have several still).
The Lite Ti I would rate a 9 in comfort, 9 in smoothness and a 6-7 in efficiency (depending if I feel like a jawline touch up).
Where it would struggle is if I let my facial hair grow 4-5 days and tried to mow it down… that the original blackbird would be better suited for. So for shaves every 1-3 days where you value comfort, smoothness and efficiency, I think the Lite is phenomenal. It’s a different razor than the BB Ti, in a good way, but maintains much of the BB shaving characteristics.
For my skin, it’s the blackbird I always needed.
In fact, I may order a second Lite plate as my travel razor.
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Great review...so much valuable info here.
I agree with the 6 rating for comfort with the OG Blackbird....main reason I
gave it up.
9 in comfort and smoothness sounds right up my alley.
The finish on the Ti BB Lite....is it machined or satin?
Would venture to guess its satin just like the OG line is now...
eta... The site has it listed as satin finish...
Only satin - here was todays shave from a hotel with the BB Ti Lite. My trusty Rudy Vey 20mm Shavemac knot and B&M PV Omnibus - really nice.
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@Downtownvino, thank you for your in depth review. You’re making the new Blackbird Lite Ti sound extremely appealing. I love my Blackbird Ti and I may have to pick up a new Lite base plate!
You are welcome. I currently have 3 BB Ti’s (one polished at relatives home, one for travel and one for the home den). For me as an every 24-48 hour shaver, the razor is just a great compromise between the unique appeal of the blackbird Ti and the smoothness of a less aggressive razor.
For my sensitive skin, Shane knocked it out of the park with this one, it’s rotated into my must use group of razors.
This is breeding substantive FOMO.
I think he will have them for sale for quite a while. In the meantime I’m really leaning towards getting a second baseplate.
That’s correct. No plans to limit production of the Lite or Lite Titanium.
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Ok, BB Lite Ti baseplate ordered 
I doubt you will be anything less than pleased if you could go for a little milder shave than the original with a little more comfort.
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Your Friday review,
This morning I experimented what the angle I held my BB Ti razor at. The sound the razor makes while shaving is really a key indicator to a correct razor angle. I know this is a blinding flash of the obvious to many on this board but it helped me confirm what many of you said.
did a great job of describing and comparing the BB Ti to the Lite Ti. I’m looking forward to trying the BB Lite Ti
This morning I experimented what the angle I held my BB Ti razor at. The sound the razor makes while shaving is really a key indicator to a correct razor angle. I know this is a blinding flash of the obvious to many on this board but it helped me confirm what many of you said.
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So excited, Blackbird Lite Titanium Base Plate delivered today.
Sweet! Let us know how it goes!
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First shave this morning went extremely well. Less blade feel and Astra superior platinum blade very effective in Blackbird lite platinum razor. Very smooth glide across face WTG, XTG, and ATG .
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