For the manliest shavers!

[jay67212]

Training a FNG (newbie) on the overnight shift gave me lots of time to cruise the internets... and I came across this short article. Good lord! That's a picture of a trusting soul!

http://huckberry.com/blog/posts/the-art-of-axe-shaving

If this is revived, would we wetshavers see a new category?

 

[Legion]

I've seen a lot of those photos. I always wonder if they are real or just staged for the camera. Having honed a good number of shave ready edges, it would seem counter intuitive to put one on an axe, even a racing axe. First cut, edge destroyed. To hone an edge on an axe that would be durable enough to last a competition, the angle would not be acute enough to shave a face. Actually, an axe blade is too thick to ever get that sort of edge geometry.

Or am I just way over thinking the whole thing?

 

[thekinge]

Now there's a manly way to shave

 

[Lynchy]

It's definitely real, YouTube it, there are some people doing it.

Why they would put such an edge on the axe, I don't know?

 

[Useless shaver]

I'm a sissy thing....

 

[Zbig]

Review:
The new razor seemed a bit heavy on the hand, certainly heavier than the bakelites. Probably not as heavy as the ultra-heavy Parkers. The center of gravity was way too close to the head for my taste. Aggressiveness is a 10 for sure. Blade is sharp, but doesn't beat a Feather. Still better than the other Axe Shick razors.