I used my new tatara masamune for the first time yesterday. It is a fantastic piece of kit from the design, finish and fit perspectives. I am still getting to grips with it and it is noticeably having a little more blade feel than my fatip piccolo SE with gentile plate - which I did not expect. It may he the fact that I used a feather blade with it instead of the Astra that I use with the fatip. I probably have to shave more often with it to get more used to it.