Prefatory note: I think that most, if not all of us have changed our minds about something in our shaving arsenal as we gained more experience. Something that we may have hated, or at least disliked, that we revisited later and found to be fine, or even really nice.
Let's see if we can record those experiences here. Razors, blades, soaps, creams.....whatever. If you didn't like it at one point, but changed your mind later, post about it here.
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I'll get things started:
I used to think that the Gillette Old Type razors were unusably aggressive.
I got a Single Ring as my second or third razor, and I was pretty much unable to use it. I found it too aggressive, and quickly got rid of it. In my defense, there were several threads at the time that indicated that you had to shim the Single Ring to make it usable - so perhaps other people were having issues with them then too.
Of course, the real reason I wasn't able to use one effectively was because my technique was crap. Shaving angles were wrong, I used too much pressure, my prep probably sucked, and I used Derby blades at the time (I hate those now).
Well, a year or so later I tried them again, and found that I liked the Old Type razors a lot. I have several models at the moment - Single Ring, ball end Old Type, Pocket Editions, ABC Gillettes, Bulldog, Big Fellow, etc. I like them all. They're actually pretty mild, and reward a shave with a sharper blade (Feathers for me). Still, they're really efficient too.
So, my technique improvement resulted in me completely changing my mind about these wonderful razors.
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If you have had a similar experience with a shaving implement, let us hear about it.
Let's see if we can record those experiences here. Razors, blades, soaps, creams.....whatever. If you didn't like it at one point, but changed your mind later, post about it here.
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I'll get things started:
I used to think that the Gillette Old Type razors were unusably aggressive.
I got a Single Ring as my second or third razor, and I was pretty much unable to use it. I found it too aggressive, and quickly got rid of it. In my defense, there were several threads at the time that indicated that you had to shim the Single Ring to make it usable - so perhaps other people were having issues with them then too.
Of course, the real reason I wasn't able to use one effectively was because my technique was crap. Shaving angles were wrong, I used too much pressure, my prep probably sucked, and I used Derby blades at the time (I hate those now).
Well, a year or so later I tried them again, and found that I liked the Old Type razors a lot. I have several models at the moment - Single Ring, ball end Old Type, Pocket Editions, ABC Gillettes, Bulldog, Big Fellow, etc. I like them all. They're actually pretty mild, and reward a shave with a sharper blade (Feathers for me). Still, they're really efficient too.
So, my technique improvement resulted in me completely changing my mind about these wonderful razors.
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If you have had a similar experience with a shaving implement, let us hear about it.
