Just received it on Saturday 10/14/23. It's been a while (maybe close to a year) since I used either the "As machined" Merica or the Stonewashed one, but tried this one but in not ideal conditions. I didn't have any proper soap or brush so just used liquid foam soap 
. Didn't have my trusty Lab Blues blades that I pretty much use in every razor I own. I used the included Tatra blades that Yates included. Seemed pretty similar to what I remembered about both the merica razors but less drag due to it being brass. Seemed maybe a little heavier than the SS and I actually welcome that. WTG pass seemed decently efficient and somewhat mild with a noticeable amount of blade feel but that may be from the soap I used and the blade may be a bit rough in general compared to Lab Blues. ATG pass I did with a light hand as I'm not used to using new blades and didn't want any cuts. No drama and after rinsing it left only a small amount of stubble but I didn't want to push it with a third pass. Just going by face feel an hour later I would say it's a B+ DFS. With the proper soap and blade, I'm sure it would be closer to A+ DFS and a third pass would get me to BBS but I rarely try for BBS so I'm sure this will be great on regular use. I'll have to do a comparison shave with the SS version on 1/2 and the other half the new brass merica. All in all it's a nice brass version, although it's more $$$ than the older SS version when it was sold by Wet Shaving Club.
. Didn't have my trusty Lab Blues blades that I pretty much use in every razor I own. I used the included Tatra blades that Yates included. Seemed pretty similar to what I remembered about both the merica razors but less drag due to it being brass. Seemed maybe a little heavier than the SS and I actually welcome that. WTG pass seemed decently efficient and somewhat mild with a noticeable amount of blade feel but that may be from the soap I used and the blade may be a bit rough in general compared to Lab Blues. ATG pass I did with a light hand as I'm not used to using new blades and didn't want any cuts. No drama and after rinsing it left only a small amount of stubble but I didn't want to push it with a third pass. Just going by face feel an hour later I would say it's a B+ DFS. With the proper soap and blade, I'm sure it would be closer to A+ DFS and a third pass would get me to BBS but I rarely try for BBS so I'm sure this will be great on regular use. I'll have to do a comparison shave with the SS version on 1/2 and the other half the new brass merica. All in all it's a nice brass version, although it's more $$$ than the older SS version when it was sold by Wet Shaving Club.Â
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