I have a general question about one of the most beaten to death topics here - razor aggressiveness, more specifically gap issue between razor and guard.
May be experts can help.
First, I want to exclude additional components of aggressiveness like blade sharpness, blade slanting, razor weight etc..
If to follow expert's instructions like Mantic and many others, one should initially hold blade so handle is nearly parallel to the flour and only upper plate touch the face, then slowly rotate handle down just until blade start shaving.
So that, ideally (if one can keep that perfect angle) the guard should not play any role at all. It only comes to play when you rotate handle too much down so it prevents from blade to bite wildly into your face.
So that if one keep "perfect angle" the DE just function as straight.
Am I correct ?
If yes then any razor with reasonable gap ( using same blade and having the same weight ) should shave pretty much the same ?
So that, theoretically one can use DE without guard at all, then it just became straight with an unusial placement of handle and disposable blade.
Isn't Cobra Classic is roughly fitting this spec ( it does have guard but it has a big gap).
Or I am wrong and lower guard does touch the face even when one magically maintains perfect angle all the time ?
Experts, please !
Any opinions
May be experts can help.
First, I want to exclude additional components of aggressiveness like blade sharpness, blade slanting, razor weight etc..
If to follow expert's instructions like Mantic and many others, one should initially hold blade so handle is nearly parallel to the flour and only upper plate touch the face, then slowly rotate handle down just until blade start shaving.
So that, ideally (if one can keep that perfect angle) the guard should not play any role at all. It only comes to play when you rotate handle too much down so it prevents from blade to bite wildly into your face.
So that if one keep "perfect angle" the DE just function as straight.
Am I correct ?
If yes then any razor with reasonable gap ( using same blade and having the same weight ) should shave pretty much the same ?
So that, theoretically one can use DE without guard at all, then it just became straight with an unusial placement of handle and disposable blade.
Isn't Cobra Classic is roughly fitting this spec ( it does have guard but it has a big gap).
Or I am wrong and lower guard does touch the face even when one magically maintains perfect angle all the time ?
Experts, please !
Any opinions
