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Three more weeks of SR shaving and some new insights, this time about razors.
First I'll just check in and say that the SR shaving just gets easier and easier and take less and less time. And I'm experimenting with grips and which hand does which side of which part to try to find the best angles and strokes. My DE has been relegated to loans to friends interested in learning why I'm so obsessed with traditional shaving. Crazy evidently is contagious ...
I've started building out a hodge-podge 7-day SR set so I can have primo edges all week with my pasted balsa maintenances zen sessions relegated to the weekend. In that endeavor I picked up a quarter hollow blade while everything else to date has been full hollow in differing blade widths (5/8, 6/8, and 7/8) and different points (round, spike, and barber's notch). This morning was the first shave with the 1/4 hollow and all I can say is, WOW! The blade had next to no audible feedback, but it seemed to just glide over my face. It felt like sliding a piece of polished aluminum along my skin, but the whiskers just vaporized. The closest SR shave I've had, and maybe the closest shave I've ever had with any razor.
Full disclosure, I did end up with one nick at the base of my neck that closed with alum. But I attribute that to being unfamiliar with a new razor rather than the grind being more prone to biting.
So, this got me thinking. It's common to recommend a blade sampler for new DE shavers to help find the best razor/blade/technique combination to suit their individual situation and tastes. But, the process of acquiring all the different SR grinds, point types, widths, to try seems prohibitive. Have most of you started with a particular grind/design and just stuck with it? Or has everyone eventually shelled out for the "drawer full of razors" of different styles? If the latter, do you still shave with them all? Or are they just sitting there with appreciation, but without much love?
First I'll just check in and say that the SR shaving just gets easier and easier and take less and less time. And I'm experimenting with grips and which hand does which side of which part to try to find the best angles and strokes. My DE has been relegated to loans to friends interested in learning why I'm so obsessed with traditional shaving. Crazy evidently is contagious ...
I've started building out a hodge-podge 7-day SR set so I can have primo edges all week with my pasted balsa maintenances zen sessions relegated to the weekend. In that endeavor I picked up a quarter hollow blade while everything else to date has been full hollow in differing blade widths (5/8, 6/8, and 7/8) and different points (round, spike, and barber's notch). This morning was the first shave with the 1/4 hollow and all I can say is, WOW! The blade had next to no audible feedback, but it seemed to just glide over my face. It felt like sliding a piece of polished aluminum along my skin, but the whiskers just vaporized. The closest SR shave I've had, and maybe the closest shave I've ever had with any razor.
Full disclosure, I did end up with one nick at the base of my neck that closed with alum. But I attribute that to being unfamiliar with a new razor rather than the grind being more prone to biting.
So, this got me thinking. It's common to recommend a blade sampler for new DE shavers to help find the best razor/blade/technique combination to suit their individual situation and tastes. But, the process of acquiring all the different SR grinds, point types, widths, to try seems prohibitive. Have most of you started with a particular grind/design and just stuck with it? Or has everyone eventually shelled out for the "drawer full of razors" of different styles? If the latter, do you still shave with them all? Or are they just sitting there with appreciation, but without much love?