When you use your vintage razors, do you remove the blade/open the razor and wipe it after use?
Or do you just leave it after rinse?
Or do you just leave it after rinse?
Do you pick out the blade after shaving?
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I just leave it...Rinse...loosen the head a bit if there is a load of hair stuck, but just rinse, shake and leave it.
My daily shaver is a TTO. I slightly open the silo doors so that water can get underneath the blade. Then I rinse and hang on my razor/brush stand.
Rinse and shake.
The Gem razor I use the most gets wiped out when I am done with it.
I usually disassemble my razor, run water and clean it. I then clean the blade and pat it dry. I then reassemble the dry razor with the blade for tomorrow!
i remove it and gently press it with a towel
also dry the razor
don't know if this is necessary
also dry the razor
don't know if this is necessary
That's it in a nutshell, plain, simple and more than adequate.
Also a rinse and shaker.
Rinse, shake, wipe.
R
rainman
For the razor, take apart, rinse leave to dry open(tto) or apart(3 pc) on a wash cloth to dry. For the blade, rinse and leave on top of my box of 100 IP's to dry.
+2
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I forgot to tell how I do myself. I´m a newbie so I use all my razors even those I collect. Some of them I open/take apart and wipe and some I shake and rinse.
+1 and I never "wipe" the blade.
For now, I'm pulling the blade each time to do a "hand strop". See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogq4wfpT7hc
- Chris
- Chris
I remove the blade and rinse blad and shaver, wipe razor dry with a towel and pat the blade dry, then hand strop it and reassemble blade and razor. However, I just got a bunch of used wine corks and, once I toss out the corks made of ground cork, I'll be corking instead of hand stropping.
I cork a new blade before the first shave, my belief being that it removes burrs along each edge.
Stropping on the other hand is at 90° to the corking direction and addresses the blunting of the edge from whisker cutting. So I cork for the first use and strop for the others.
- Chris
Stropping on the other hand is at 90° to the corking direction and addresses the blunting of the edge from whisker cutting. So I cork for the first use and strop for the others.
- Chris
