The point of this post is my own personal observations, thoughts, and feelings regarding the various Gillette Tech razors. Mainly done in a fairly straightforward and easy to understand post that isn’t presented in a long “shave of the day” fashion or with a lot of excess information to dig through. I’ll also address some lore (Canadian prewars are different and amazing for instance).
I’ll that I tried to keep as many variables as similar as possible. Same blade type (Polsilver Iridium Super with 7 O’clock Yellows but that became redundant) same general batch, same soap (Mikes Natural Soaps Barbershop), and same razor handle (UFO Colibri). The brush changes but generally used the same during weekdays. I also shave everyday.
I generally do one pass against the grain. I make observations about how it feels doing a two pass starting with the grain first depending on how it feels. For me a two pass shave really just makes the second pass smoother.
Prewar USA
This worked better with a sharper blade. The yellows delivered an ok experience but nothing to write home about. Could deliver a great shape with no nicks or irritation. Single pass was all that was needed. No nicks or irritation but the razor is smoother with a shallower angle versus a steeper angle. This can be remedied to a much more intuitive angle if you do multiple passes but this is single pass ATG. It’s a good shave but a bit of attention is needed to maintain the angle. Not extremely unforgiving, can bite but takes some negligence.
I’ll that I tried to keep as many variables as similar as possible. Same blade type (Polsilver Iridium Super with 7 O’clock Yellows but that became redundant) same general batch, same soap (Mikes Natural Soaps Barbershop), and same razor handle (UFO Colibri). The brush changes but generally used the same during weekdays. I also shave everyday.
I generally do one pass against the grain. I make observations about how it feels doing a two pass starting with the grain first depending on how it feels. For me a two pass shave really just makes the second pass smoother.
Prewar USA
This worked better with a sharper blade. The yellows delivered an ok experience but nothing to write home about. Could deliver a great shape with no nicks or irritation. Single pass was all that was needed. No nicks or irritation but the razor is smoother with a shallower angle versus a steeper angle. This can be remedied to a much more intuitive angle if you do multiple passes but this is single pass ATG. It’s a good shave but a bit of attention is needed to maintain the angle. Not extremely unforgiving, can bite but takes some negligence.
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