I picked up one of these at a local Walgreens. I loaded it with a Gillette Silver Blue and lather up with some Taylor’s of Old Bond Street and shaved with it. It was incredibly mild. So mild that I thought there was a problem and there was, a paper insert in the head that I somehow missed.
Today, I gave it a try again and still found it to be the mildest razor that I own. Much milder than my Slims, than my Flare-tip SuperSpeed, milder than the Heritage, my Schick Krona, even milder than my Ball-end Tech. So mild, in fact, that it takes three plus passes to get anything close to a DFS.
I believe this has to do partly with the head geometry, which appears to the naked eye to be different, with much less blade exposure than the Heritage, and the weight distribution, in which the handle is very heavy compared to the head of the razor making it very “head light” with the balance point about 1/3 the way down the handle whereas the Heritage’s balance point is just above the first ring on the handle.
Has anyone else found this razor to be incredibly mild?
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Today, I gave it a try again and still found it to be the mildest razor that I own. Much milder than my Slims, than my Flare-tip SuperSpeed, milder than the Heritage, my Schick Krona, even milder than my Ball-end Tech. So mild, in fact, that it takes three plus passes to get anything close to a DFS.
I believe this has to do partly with the head geometry, which appears to the naked eye to be different, with much less blade exposure than the Heritage, and the weight distribution, in which the handle is very heavy compared to the head of the razor making it very “head light” with the balance point about 1/3 the way down the handle whereas the Heritage’s balance point is just above the first ring on the handle.
Has anyone else found this razor to be incredibly mild?
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