Esox, Here is my chrome sister to your gold Grande:
Thats nice too, but you guys really have me wondering about the Gentile now lol.
Thats nice too, but you guys really have me wondering about the Gentile now lol.
Another case of RAD flares up.
Welcome to the journals section!
Good luck my friend. Enjoy and remember a light touch and just shave.Thanks!
I realized something this morning as I was replying to another thread...
I've been shaving everyday now for I think, over a week. This is something I've never done before simply because I couldnt. If I had any irritation from a shave, shaving again the next day would only compound it. For most of my life using a Gillette Sensor, SensorXL and a Mach 3 I've never shaved two days in a row other than when I first started with the Sensor and found out it wasnt a good idea. The only times I would shave two days in a row was when I used electrics for quite a few years because I had too. Shaving every other day with a Mach 3 was never an enjoyable experience let me tell you.
The shave was so ineffective with electric shavers that if I didnt shave as close as I could with one, the next days shave would be painfully tuggy. If I waited two days I'd need to use clippers first pass, or at the very least, the trimmer built into the shaver over my worst areas before using it over my entire face, and then I might still stall it. That will make you jump! Even at that the blades wouldnt stay sharp long and I even got to the point of sharpening them myself on a whetstone, often.
So I was thinking this morning and it occurred to me that I've been shaving everyday, and not even thinking about it! Is this my skin adjusting to DE shaving? Is it the better soaps/creams and slickness? Is it my technique is evolving to let me shave daily, even with blades considered very sharp in what I feel is a fairly aggressive blade forward razor, my Gillette Regent, or a combination of all? I dont know, but something is working and working well.
I also have a goal in mind. I'm not sure if I'll be able to attain it, but given the fact above, it seems I'm on my way too it.
I hope to achieve a single buffing pass shave. Starting directly ATG and finishing with a nice BBS shave with cool, comfortable skin like I can have now with either a 2 1/2 - 3 pass shave and my NEW SC or Regent, or in the case of using my post war Tech, a full 3 pass shave with 3 more clean up passes over my neck, chin and jawline.
I can start directly ATG now with my NEW SC, but the gap it has doesnt make it the most comfortable shave. My Gillette Regent has the blade profile of an OLD type without any gap, but it's not as comfortable to shave with as my NEW SC so I havent even attempted starting my shave directly ATG with it, yet. Gillette TTO's may be rigid designs, but they dont feel as rigid as the NEW SC to me.
This is why I started thinking about a Single Ring. They have the rigidity, they have no blade gap and I certainly feel they would be a capable enough razor with the right match in blade choice. The Fatip head seems to up them a step by offering more blade exposure and in my mind that will help me in achieving this goal.
Is this unrealistic, I dont know. Is it even possible, I believe it is.
This journey may be a long one, but it starts today.
Good luck my friend. Enjoy and remember a light touch and just shave.
Great journal - I will follow with interest. I have a fatip piccolo which I really like. One question - did I understand right that you don't take lots of short strokes but instead take one long one from sideburn to base of neck - cart technique? Great it seems to work perfectly for you, especially first shave on a new razor!
What I have found is that if I hold the head assembly in my hand while screwing the handle on I more times than not have alignment problems, but if I lay the top cap on the counter, place the blade and bottom plate on, put my thumb and index fingers on the tips of the alignment pins, (this puts zero pressure on the bottom plate and blade but keeps the assembly steady), and screw the handle on and only when it starts to tighten I turn the head assy to one of the faces of the head and cinch it ever so slightly... I have found in using this technique I never have an alignment problem ever... I found that by just holding the assy in my fingers while screwing the handle on, just the slightest touch to the blade ends protruding from the top cap seemed to skew the blade while tightening the handle down. The way I am doing it now there is even pressure all the way around the head on the blade, top and bottom, to seat the blade properly.
Ya ain't foolin' me Rave. That's no Grande.Esox, Here is my chrome sister to your gold Grande:
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@Esox....glad your first shave went so well. I think my Grande will be first in rotation for the month of OCtober..
congrats on your fatip experiences!
i find mine to be somewhat aggressive, closely akin (if not made by) joris.
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Fatip makes the heads for Joriscongrats on your fatip experiences!
i find mine to be somewhat aggressive, closely akin (if not made by) joris.
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Oops my bad. You are right it's my Schone. I put the Schone in my Grande box, my Grande in my Testina Gentile box, and my Gillette Tech in my Schone box and forgot. I just pulled the razor out of the Grande box and started taking pictures...busted!Ya ain't foolin' me Rave. That's no Grande.