So, I’m probably a moron but I don’t understand slant razors. How do they work? What is their advantage? Is the shaving technique different?
Curses you fool!I'm not really in favour of the concept. You are really buggered if you are a lefty. Just personally . . . I'd not waste a dime on a slant. But that is just me. Please feel free to curse me at your leisure.
The head is slanted at an angle in relation to the handle; if you look at a photo of one you’ll see what they are. The purpose is so that the blade cuts the beard with a greater slicing motion which is somewhat more efficient - think of how a Guillotine’s angled blade slices rather than chops as it shaved the back of its customer’s neck. As for the technique, it’s exactly the same as a regular DE - you shave in straight strokes as you normally would; the slanted head applies the slicing motion. It’s supposed to replicate the old ‘Gillette slide’ technique.
That's not true -- left-handed or right-handed, you still pull the razor in the same direction along the same path. Not everybody likes slants, that's fine.I'm not really in favour of the concept. You are really buggered if you are a lefty. Just personally . . . I'd not waste a dime on a slant. But that is just me. Please feel free to curse me at your leisure.
My dad was a lefty. EVERYTHING was backwards for the poor man. In skool he was of the age where they tried to cure him of that handicap. He was hard headed, so he just quit skool at 13 or 14, lol.I'm not really in favour of the concept. You are really buggered if you are a lefty. Just personally . . . I'd not waste a dime on a slant. But that is just me. Please feel free to curse me at your leisure.
It’s an old technique suggested back in the day by Gillette, whereby the razor is moved in a more angled stroke across the skin than normal, but still keeping the blade level on the skin. So the head of the razor and the blade) stays level, but rather than move in a straight down direction, it goes at a slight angle.What is the 'Gillette slide'? I thought moving the blade in a direction other than straight led to cuts.
It gets easier the more you do it, and it might have helped back before the blades were not stainless steel.It’s an old technique suggested back in the day by Gillette, whereby the razor is moved in a more angled stroke across the skin than normal, but still keeping the blade level 9n the skin. So the head of the razor stay level, but rather than move in a straight down direction, it goes at a slight angle.
This thread discusses it:
The Slant vs the Gillette Slide (technique)
I was just watching Mantic's video on advanced shaving techniques and the first one mentioned is what he calls the Gillette Slide, which is a stroke that moves the razor down and sideways, at the same time. The idea is that you are sliding the blade across the stubble at the same time you are...www.badgerandblade.com
and YouTube has videos, I believe.
You did a GREAT job of how I feel about my only slant. It's the one you described. I've said on here several times that I could shave blindfolded with it.I'm not much into the theory, but I can tell you that my RR German 37 seems to work well for me with pretty much every blade for me. I like to use it when I have more than a day or two of growth the wide gap between the blade and guard also means it pretty much never clogs, even if I only rinse a few times during each pass.
For me, it's what I use whenever I need a quick shave. I can do each pass much faster and without any thought whatsoever compared to any of my non-slants. It's definitely my, "plan landed two hours before work after I haven't shaved for work, time to quickly blast off a week of stubble while I rush to work" razor. However, this seems to be the opposite of what I've read from most posts here, so YMMV.
You did a GREAT job of how I feel about my only slant. It's the one you described. I've said on here several times that I could shave blindfolded with it.
At the risk of banishment, I have to say I probably don't use it much because it's boring!
I'm not really in favour of the concept. You are really buggered if you are a lefty. Just personally . . . I'd not waste a dime on a slant. But that is just me. Please feel free to curse me at your leisure.