Interesting shave experience this AM. Yesterday PM I decided that the blade in the Type "O" Injector was getting too dull for a passable shave. So dutifully I washed it in almost boiling water with Dawn dishwashing liquid and put it up for some rest while I cleansed the Type "M" (adjustable) also in
almost boiling water with Dawn. I decided to start off at the middle of the adjustment range, so I set it there and loaded a new blade in it and left it for this AM. Injector magazine did not mate up well, so I carefully realigned it and got the blade in properly.
Comes the morning. Normal routine with brushing my Buddy the Cat, coffee grinding, pot washing, coffee making, water in lather vessel boiling in
microwave, etc. Soak the razor to sanitize, go to take razor out of now somewhat cooler water and low and behold, the little shiny dial cover had come off. The manufacturer had used contact cement which proved to be inadequate for the rigors of this sanitizing routine. So I recovered the
disk and will attach it with some jeweler's cement this PM. Whipped up a WONDERFUL vessel full of Floris of London JF soap and started working the
four-pass. Some shrub reduction, as expected, but by the fourth pass (South to North) I realize that there is all together too much stubble
remaining. Well, I do a rather aggressive fourth pass (pressing like a newby) and still lotsa' stubble. Hmmm.... Strategy? Open that thing to the
widest setting possible. Lather up with that PEARLIZED Floris GLACIS and have at it. Puffing, stretching, displacing and all the RIGHT stuff. I managed
to salvage a C (maybe a C+) shave out of it. DARN!!! My FRIDAY is ruined! No smooch, not even a decent kiss, well I got one followed by OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!
I'll let you know how it fairs tomorrow. I noted that the blades I received were most likely old stock with a 1997 copyright on the cardboard box. Could be the issue, but I hope that a 10-year old blade is not behind this (for lack of a better term) debacle. I just ordered 72 twin injector blades from the 70's (Personna).. (I found it on eBay! From the Weird Al Jankovic Pink Poodle Album).
almost boiling water with Dawn. I decided to start off at the middle of the adjustment range, so I set it there and loaded a new blade in it and left it for this AM. Injector magazine did not mate up well, so I carefully realigned it and got the blade in properly.
Comes the morning. Normal routine with brushing my Buddy the Cat, coffee grinding, pot washing, coffee making, water in lather vessel boiling in
microwave, etc. Soak the razor to sanitize, go to take razor out of now somewhat cooler water and low and behold, the little shiny dial cover had come off. The manufacturer had used contact cement which proved to be inadequate for the rigors of this sanitizing routine. So I recovered the
disk and will attach it with some jeweler's cement this PM. Whipped up a WONDERFUL vessel full of Floris of London JF soap and started working the
four-pass. Some shrub reduction, as expected, but by the fourth pass (South to North) I realize that there is all together too much stubble
remaining. Well, I do a rather aggressive fourth pass (pressing like a newby) and still lotsa' stubble. Hmmm.... Strategy? Open that thing to the
widest setting possible. Lather up with that PEARLIZED Floris GLACIS and have at it. Puffing, stretching, displacing and all the RIGHT stuff. I managed
to salvage a C (maybe a C+) shave out of it. DARN!!! My FRIDAY is ruined! No smooch, not even a decent kiss, well I got one followed by OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!
I'll let you know how it fairs tomorrow. I noted that the blades I received were most likely old stock with a 1997 copyright on the cardboard box. Could be the issue, but I hope that a 10-year old blade is not behind this (for lack of a better term) debacle. I just ordered 72 twin injector blades from the 70's (Personna).. (I found it on eBay! From the Weird Al Jankovic Pink Poodle Album).
