Hello,
I had an odd experience shaving this morning. My slant (37c) was loaded with a Gillette yellow sharp edge with three shaves on it and I lathered up some arko in a bowl. First attempt at my normal WTG was met with a substantial amount of pulling, where normally this blade cleanly cuts though my stubble. I figured that my lather was the problem because I did not laod as much as I could have. I mixed up a new batch with much nicer later, and tried again. Same thing, lots of pulling, so I tossed the blade and loaded up a feather. Turned into a great shave, one of the best so far actually. In my 23c I get four shaves out of the yellows and then toss them, I never wait for them to dull, and I track the number of shaves on each blade by tearing off a tab on the blade wrapper. Never had pulling with this blade before, especially with only three shave. one of these shaves was a half straight razor, half DE shave, so the blade had really little use on it. So what happened? Could it be that the slant dulled the blade faster or was this just a freak occurrence, perhaps with a flawed blade?
I had an odd experience shaving this morning. My slant (37c) was loaded with a Gillette yellow sharp edge with three shaves on it and I lathered up some arko in a bowl. First attempt at my normal WTG was met with a substantial amount of pulling, where normally this blade cleanly cuts though my stubble. I figured that my lather was the problem because I did not laod as much as I could have. I mixed up a new batch with much nicer later, and tried again. Same thing, lots of pulling, so I tossed the blade and loaded up a feather. Turned into a great shave, one of the best so far actually. In my 23c I get four shaves out of the yellows and then toss them, I never wait for them to dull, and I track the number of shaves on each blade by tearing off a tab on the blade wrapper. Never had pulling with this blade before, especially with only three shave. one of these shaves was a half straight razor, half DE shave, so the blade had really little use on it. So what happened? Could it be that the slant dulled the blade faster or was this just a freak occurrence, perhaps with a flawed blade?
