A bit of context: The Karve razor is my favorite razor by far. I've owned tens of vintages and sold them all when I bought the Karve. It's perfect for me. I use it 90% of the time. I also use a Game Changer .84 and a Wunderbar. Both are great, just not Karve-great.
I own safety bar (SB) plates B, C, D and E (still trying to sell my unused E plate in the BST by the way), the C plate seeing most of the action, B being used when I want a milder shave for whatever reason and D for more than 3-days growth. I now also own plates B and C in open comb (OC).
There are no suprises really. Karve's description from their website is pretty spot on.
I tried plate B (OC) yesterday night. The OC plates are indeed more efficient than their SB counterparts. Karve says that they are 1 step up from SB (meaning an OC B is approximately the same efficience as a SB C plate). In my case, I'd say it's actually a bit more than that even. The OC B plate was (after 1 shave...) a bit more efficient than the SB C plate but clearly not as efficient as a SB D plate so it's somewhere in between C and D.
There's more blade feel, as expected. The "fingers" of the comb are comfortable, you do feel them a bit more than, for example, I did with a Gillette NEW.
I can't say, for now, if I'll end-up using the OC more than the SB (blade feel being the factor that, while still being very comfortable in this case, isn't something I always want...usually) but they are very good and I'm quite satisfied. For me, they are quite worth it.
There you go.
I own safety bar (SB) plates B, C, D and E (still trying to sell my unused E plate in the BST by the way), the C plate seeing most of the action, B being used when I want a milder shave for whatever reason and D for more than 3-days growth. I now also own plates B and C in open comb (OC).
There are no suprises really. Karve's description from their website is pretty spot on.
I tried plate B (OC) yesterday night. The OC plates are indeed more efficient than their SB counterparts. Karve says that they are 1 step up from SB (meaning an OC B is approximately the same efficience as a SB C plate). In my case, I'd say it's actually a bit more than that even. The OC B plate was (after 1 shave...) a bit more efficient than the SB C plate but clearly not as efficient as a SB D plate so it's somewhere in between C and D.
There's more blade feel, as expected. The "fingers" of the comb are comfortable, you do feel them a bit more than, for example, I did with a Gillette NEW.
I can't say, for now, if I'll end-up using the OC more than the SB (blade feel being the factor that, while still being very comfortable in this case, isn't something I always want...usually) but they are very good and I'm quite satisfied. For me, they are quite worth it.
There you go.
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