You, sir, are quite right about pretty much everything. I still have not managed to assimilate how is this possible, I mean what makes FOCS so gentle and at the same time aggressive enough to take down multiple days of growth with such ease? I'm wondering this everytime I shave, then ordered a second one to see if it was something wrong with the first one (just excuses, who believes that... ) and the second one has the same manner of shaving. The Italians made the Holy razor for me. Thanks to this thread I have found it, thank you guys.I used to believe that the blade should align with the cap and with a German 37 I bought as a newbie spent significant time trying to do so.
Fast forward a couple of years and I got the same advice from a couple of FOCS fans featured a few post above.
Now I don’t think twice. Just load the blade tighten down and go.
May not look right or pretty, and it doesn’t, but it shaves just fine and I use nothing else now.
I haven’t LEARNED to shave with a bad razor because it isn’t. It was MY PERCEPTION that was wrong.
Unless it’s clearly unsafe try a tentative shave. You might be very pleasantly surprised.
I was, I still am and the advice given about not aligning the cap was spot on. You may be throwing away the best razor you ever bought.
On the other hand, some might not agree with that