I've got to say, WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!
Perhaps I'm jumping the gun here, I thought the handle would be too short, turns out that was OK, but the shave the razor itself produced, was less than wonderful. I went ahead and tried the sample blade that was packaged with it and I'm hoping the lousy shave was because of the blade and not the razor. Seems like I remember reading somewhere that the blades Merkur makes are good and I have to disagree with that entirely at this point. I lost the little paper that came with the blade, but it says it's made in Germany.
I should start off by saying that before the Merkur, I've been using my dad's old Schick Krona, i'm pretty sure it's a Krona anyways, with just some cheap blades I picked up in Albertsons grocery store... The Merkur did not come with any instructions, but I did notice that when you tighten the blade down that it bends - does this mean it was too tight? I would think it has to be tight for a good shave, but why did they design it to bend like that?
On a side note, I've been shaving with the Krona for oh about a month or so now and I have to say that wetshaving, although it doesn't cause skin irritation, produces a truly lousy shave. So the catch 22 for me is, use an electric Panasonic or Mach 3 and get a baby butt smooth face and neck for about half a day until all the irritation sets in OR use a DE razor and get a shave that leaves my face feeling like sandpaper, yet not have any redness or irritation.. I suppose a shadow is better looking than razor bumps and redness so I'll stick with the wetshaving..
On my chin area and above the lip, I don't even attempt to use the DE razor anymore, I just shave those areas with the electric and do the rest with the DE.. For some reason the DE razor simply does not cut the beard in those areas, especially the chin. Fortunately, the electric doesn't cause irritation on those two areas so I can get away with that..
If anyone has any advice or can concur that the blade that comes with the Merkur is crap, or address the bending blade thing, I'm all ears
Perhaps I'm jumping the gun here, I thought the handle would be too short, turns out that was OK, but the shave the razor itself produced, was less than wonderful. I went ahead and tried the sample blade that was packaged with it and I'm hoping the lousy shave was because of the blade and not the razor. Seems like I remember reading somewhere that the blades Merkur makes are good and I have to disagree with that entirely at this point. I lost the little paper that came with the blade, but it says it's made in Germany.
I should start off by saying that before the Merkur, I've been using my dad's old Schick Krona, i'm pretty sure it's a Krona anyways, with just some cheap blades I picked up in Albertsons grocery store... The Merkur did not come with any instructions, but I did notice that when you tighten the blade down that it bends - does this mean it was too tight? I would think it has to be tight for a good shave, but why did they design it to bend like that?
On a side note, I've been shaving with the Krona for oh about a month or so now and I have to say that wetshaving, although it doesn't cause skin irritation, produces a truly lousy shave. So the catch 22 for me is, use an electric Panasonic or Mach 3 and get a baby butt smooth face and neck for about half a day until all the irritation sets in OR use a DE razor and get a shave that leaves my face feeling like sandpaper, yet not have any redness or irritation.. I suppose a shadow is better looking than razor bumps and redness so I'll stick with the wetshaving..
On my chin area and above the lip, I don't even attempt to use the DE razor anymore, I just shave those areas with the electric and do the rest with the DE.. For some reason the DE razor simply does not cut the beard in those areas, especially the chin. Fortunately, the electric doesn't cause irritation on those two areas so I can get away with that..
If anyone has any advice or can concur that the blade that comes with the Merkur is crap, or address the bending blade thing, I'm all ears