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Shaving with UNTRIMMED Feather blade in Injector

DISCLAIMER :

I AM SIMPLY DESCRIBING MY EXPERIENCE. IF YOU WANT TO TRY IT, DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK AND VERY BE CAREFUL, SINCE YOU CAN CUT YOURSELF EASILY. !!!

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I have a Schick Injector adjustable and pack of Feather Pro-Guard. I read on another thread that people cut the Feather blade with metal shears and put it into injector and get a great shave. May be my shears are bad, but I screwd couple of blades and cut myself trying to trim them, so I got sick and tired of it, took untrimmed feather blade out of its cartridge, slides it into empty Schick cartridge and loaded it into Schick Injector Adjustable as it was a regular blade.
It protrudes from both side for about quarter of inch. Then I carefully shaved with it. Had really smooth shave with no nicks and cuts and I am even not a particularly experienced DE shaver, just used no pressure, no G-slides, hooks buffing etc or any other advanced tricks just WTH, XTG and ATG. Had no problem and as added benefit I found that I can use those exposed parts on the side to shave under the nose, where it's hard to get with the central part of blade
Cobra Classic looks like a nice product, but it's 125$. Of course it's unsafe, but I don's think it's more unsafe then a straight razor, may be even less.
Setting of adjustable was on 3. May be we can lobby Feather to manufacture Schick Injector compatible blades :)
 
I agree, may be it was a stupid things to do after all but I am still alive.
Most likely I will not do it again.
Heck, somebody even jumped into Niagara falls and survived :) I am not sure if he wrote a book on the experience

On a technical note I think I am going to try and trim it from both sides AFTER it's loaded, since it is held tightly in place when it's in the razor.
I found I can slide blade from Feather cartridge into empty Schick cartridge and then into razor without touching the blade at all. Takes just few second.
 
Classic Shaving has a "Cobra Classic" razor that is made to use the Feather blades. It will run you about $100 bucks though.
 
I tried regular Injector blades before ( I bought Injector Plus online), but I didn't have a good experience with them. May be it's old or not sharp enough or my technique is bad.

Did somebody tried Ted Pella blades ? It looks like they are compatible.

How is their sharpness/quality vs Feather ?

Any other recommendation regarding good Injector compatible blades ? Is Injector Platina is better then Injector Plus ?
 
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