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Did one pass with the Derby blade and finished the shave with my trusted Merkur CC.
The ECO is not for me, sorry.
The ECO is not for me, sorry.
Yea, I know what you mean. The Eco is not what you would call a super smooth shaver. Not compared to my vintage Schick injector. But I am going to give it a few more days and try different blades. Not ready to give up quite yet. The jury is still out examining the evidence.Did one pass with the Derby blade and finished the shave with my trusted Merkur CC.
The ECO is not for me, sorry.
I may try using a heavier handle... just for grins.
I believe you can get perma sharp supers in the 1/2 DE configuration. That is one blade that is notably lacking from everyone's experimentation (as are GSBs and Astras). I don't have an eco, but I think you want a very sharp, yet smooth blade to try with the very small blade angle that this razor seems to be created to utilize. And like an above poster mentioned, this razor is likely to charter of it meets significant resistance to cutting. The Hawk won't chatter because of the natural rigidity of AC blades. Hope it works for a few people! It is an interesting design to be sure.
I'm not being critical of anyone who likes, buys, or uses this razor, but I don't get the point of it. What advantages does it offer over a good DE razor and the various other SE platforms? Advantages other than being a novelty (not that being a novelty is bad)?
I would not want to be breaking DE blades myself. I already cut myself too often. Of course, that's just me.
It's a razor which makes me wonder why?
Happy shaves,
Jim
On Sunday I had the second shave with a PermaSharp and was not happy. The blade was catchy and struggled through the the chin whiskers, blessing me with two nicks. I am convinced that there is way too much blade flexing. I cut off the bevel off a razor blade and set it aside for this mornings shave to be used as a shim between the blade and cap, the reason being an upper shim could brace the blade from flexing. The second descisionwas to shim the rib at the back of the base, that is the fulcrum for the clamp, by about 1 mm to shift the pressure of the cap against the blade from being evenly distributed accross the blade to applying the pressure close to the edge of the cap.
So this morning I used a Voskhod blade with the two shims and a Weber bulldog handle. The result was a smooth, very close shave with a very firm blade. Tomorrow I'll try the other half of the Nacet blade that I started the trial series. The first shave with the Nacet was certainly rough, I'll report on improvement or not.
BTW you shouldn't need 2 shims, loading the blade then shim should give the best results. Putting that shim under the blade will help but if it is like the shake sharp it won't remove all the flex out of the blade. You can also try using 2 blades instead of a shim, if they offset enough it might shave like a double blade. Think of the Saiver 2.0 as an example