The Lupo is a great choice.
You’d be cutting into your RazoRock Lupo .95 budget
Saw you had a Lupo razor pencilled in. Good thinking!
You'll have to report on it as I'm curious on that one too. Looks awesome.You gents turned out to be quite prescient. For all my hemming and hawing about the GC .84, I wound up with a Lupo on the way...
I think this experiment is going to work. Here are some close-up shots of the GC .68-P and GC .84-P compliments of @Rosseforp. I think the Shim-Kai GC .78-P is going slightly more efficient than the GC .84! The GC .68 has roughly -.05mm negative exposure, and the GC 84 has neutral exposure. The KAI blade is adding .11mm in width, so adding it to the GC .68 should result in roughly .06mm positive exposure.
GC .68-P: Note the negative blade exposure.
GC .84: Note the neutral blade exposure
I see your pictures, but RR publishes "positive" blade exposure with the Game Changer and Lupo razors (at least they did when I checked a few minutes ago).
i don't have any of those, but i think lupo 95 is very aggressive for me.I also stand with all that have mentioned the Lupo's in this post. I had the Gamechanger .84 and loved it, still do, but ever since the release of the SS Lupo's, there is no comparison to me. I love both the .72 and .95 Lupo's, have never had a better shave with any other DE compared to these.
My favorite of them all is the .95 Lupo.
i don't have any of those, but i think lupo 95 is very aggressive for me.
Not only do blade widths vary between brands (from Derby at 21.89mm all the way to Kai at 22.18mm) but even the exact same brand has variation of a few thousandths of a mm. I'd guess the average blade is 21.95mm.
I've got the Lupo .95 baseplate on the way. I'm dubious that it's materially more efficient than the Lupo .72, but there is only one way to find out.
My theory is that once blade exposure becomes positive, marginal increases in blade exposure become increasingly irrelevant. Increasing gap serves only to reduce predictability (i.e. the razor is more prone to bite, but does change the shaving efficiency if the blade exposure is already positive.)
I like both, but prefer the .72. I see a lot of members prefer the .95. I have it and use it and like it, but I prefer the .72.