Arko
Tabac
Col. Conk
Proraso
Williams
Palmolive
Tabac
Col. Conk
Proraso
Williams
Palmolive
You were the one who said that most of your shaves only involved a single pass. If you were doing 4 pass shaves like I am, I doubt you would be getting 50 shaves from a single blade.
As you stated earlier, some shavers fall outside the 95% confidence limits of the bell curve. You are on one end of that curve; I am on the opposite end.
Actually you DIDIt's posts like this that make me wish we were real life people who could meet in person and show each other how to make lather. I use lots of water and go from proto lather to thicker lather. It seems like every time someone says how they make lather, there is an equal and opposite way. Oh well...
(Notice I didn't mention Williams.)
I said I do one pass with soap. There is no way I'm in the 5% with the finest whiskers. I really wish you would quit making declarative statements about where I am.
I never mentioned anything about you having the finest whiskers. You are reading things I did not write.
I just said that since you do one-pass shaves and I do four-pass shaves we are at opposite ends of the bell curve.
That was my grandfather 100%. He used the same 1917 Gillette open comb razor that was issued to him in the US Army during WWI for 60 years. I have very fond memories as a child watching him shave and explaining how to shave and maintain a DE razor. He always cleaned and dried everything after each shave. He used only one soap and did a one pass shave every day. He had a way of taking care of things so they would last, which I always attributed to the years he lived through the great depression. I still remember the stories he told of the hardships people suffered back then. However he never spoke of the two world wars he went through, except the razor that he used then and for the rest of his life. I suspect many of us that enjoy DE shaving have a similar connection to the past as I feel in my memories of him.That would work! People who grew up during the Depression learned to make stuff last!