AimlessWanderer
Remember to forget me!
Just completed 16 weeks with an Astra Platinum, averaging 4 or 5 shaves per week. Very nice shave, but I want the feel of a fresh blade again, so I ditched the blade after the shave.
That was probably not my longest lived blade ever, but certainly the longest lasting blade since joining B&B in 2017. The difference between now, and the immortal blades of old, is I use shaving soaps now. Much better shaves, but more residue build up on the blades than when I was using shaving gels. the residue lifts the edge height ever so slightly, and leads to the loss of efficient scissor action between blade and skin.
Yes, I could go OCD on the blades, and strip and clean everything after each shave, but that's not my style. Whatever disorders I do have, obsessive compulsion is not amongst them. Shaving as I do is fun, and I don't want it to become a chore again, be that in blade cleaning, honing, or other none essential act.
I'll be switching back to Wilkinson Sword for the next shave, and see if whatever let me get a marathon run with the Astra, will also let me have a marathon run with the blade brand I used exclusively for my first quarter century of DE shaving.
That was probably not my longest lived blade ever, but certainly the longest lasting blade since joining B&B in 2017. The difference between now, and the immortal blades of old, is I use shaving soaps now. Much better shaves, but more residue build up on the blades than when I was using shaving gels. the residue lifts the edge height ever so slightly, and leads to the loss of efficient scissor action between blade and skin.
Yes, I could go OCD on the blades, and strip and clean everything after each shave, but that's not my style. Whatever disorders I do have, obsessive compulsion is not amongst them. Shaving as I do is fun, and I don't want it to become a chore again, be that in blade cleaning, honing, or other none essential act.
I'll be switching back to Wilkinson Sword for the next shave, and see if whatever let me get a marathon run with the Astra, will also let me have a marathon run with the blade brand I used exclusively for my first quarter century of DE shaving.