Exactly what is it that doesn't make sense?That doesn’t make any sense to me.
Exactly what is it that doesn't make sense?That doesn’t make any sense to me.
You’re saying that blade damage doesn’t effect performance. We got some razor Jedi up in here.Exactly what is it that doesn't make sense?
We got some mind reader here that can read my experience.You’re saying that blade damage doesn’t effect performance. We got some razor Jedi up in here.
For me, I rotate razors and blades once a week, usually on Sundays. That is a system which works for me.
That's exactly what I do most of the time, except I sometimes forget and do it every other week. If I use more razors, then I definitely do it every other week. Now, some people like to rotate often... in that case one could do it at the beginning of each month, something like that.
I just do not get the obsession with blade life.
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Figure 1. Fresh out of the packet, the Wilkinson Sword double-sided blade in the (scanning) electron microscope.
The gunk on the edge of the blade is now more apparent. A mixture of grease and residue is the blobby stuff and the blade edge is now littered with all sorts of stuff. There is a big blob of grease on the right hand side of figure 6.
Figure 2. Post-Jon, the Wilkinson Sword after scraping my head (50 000 times).
At the highest magnification the damage done to the blade is evident. The metal has suffered a huge amount of deformation (ductility) and the metal appears to have cracked in places. I have no idea what the white blobs are, but the fuzzy appearance towards the top of figure 7 suggests that, whatever it was it charges (accumulates electrons during the image) and blurs the image. The trauma of the blade seems to match that of my head- I managed to cut myself a couple of times during the shave
source: Under the microscope: razor blades - https://thruanelectronlens.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/under-the-microscope-razor-blades/
Come to think of it. Why would people even count the number of times used if they use em until they no longer function properly?
A hundred and fifty is quite nifty.One and done.
A hundred and fifty is quite nifty.
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I just do not get the obsession with blade life.
I just do not get the obsession with blade life.
At times, there seems to be more obsession about people getting long blade life, by those who don't, than there is any obsession about the blade life itself...
I change my blades every Sunday. More often if I am getting a bad shave out of it. (Squints at the tucks of Bolzano blades)
My Schick Injector blades get changed every 14 shaves.
I am not interested in getting 11 million shaves from a blade that costs me less than 12¢ a shave.
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Exactly, we ooh and aah over brush collections of hard to get, expensive knots, out of production models. And if I was still working I would have gone down that road even though it matters not on what your results are. I redirected it to collecting and using a less expensive more effective object, vintage blades and some people get up in arms about the claim they're better. It's a hobby, everyone go down the road of your choosing and celebrate each others choices. Control your own roll, and I'll do mine.I don't think there's anything to get, really. It's a hobby. Natural curiosity. A combination of many factors. A regular shaver would ask: "What's the obsession with brushes? Brush handles? Blades? Anything really?"
I mean, you just use a tool and you shave with it, there's no mystery about any of this stuff. The only reason people have forums and obsess about this stuff is that it's a hobby. I know people who shave daily with a cartridge and they use the same cartridge for a whole month, sometimes two.They don't see anything strange about it. When the shave becomes really unpleasant, they replace it.