What razor in your collection is the absolute best one? No picking two...only one.
Your best razor is....
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Razorock BBS
Timeless Ti .95 SB since I can only pick one.
WR2 SS SB 1.25
Rex Envoy 
RazoRock Mamba.
1963 Gillette Slim
Yates 921-H
Best for what?
Overall favorite is probably the Schone OC with wenge wood handle.
Overall favorite is probably the Schone OC with wenge wood handle.
My best is the one I use most often: Henson AL13 Mild.
I love all my razors. Seriously. I have been very lucky with advice from B&B Gents and gut instinct. All great performers.
But if the question is being framed - as I take it - as a 9 year old being asked the razor equivalent of 'who is your bestest girlfriend?' in a playground sometime in 1970, and I was that 9 year old, then the answer would be
Fatip Piccolo Mk2.
I still have an irrational crush on it, after 2 months, and I reach for it increasingly. I dearly love all the others in my little collection, but this one at the moment is my 'bestest best girlfriend'
Until the next one comes around and steals my foolish 9 year old heart.
The Rotation of emotion?
But if the question is being framed - as I take it - as a 9 year old being asked the razor equivalent of 'who is your bestest girlfriend?' in a playground sometime in 1970, and I was that 9 year old, then the answer would be
Fatip Piccolo Mk2.
I still have an irrational crush on it, after 2 months, and I reach for it increasingly. I dearly love all the others in my little collection, but this one at the moment is my 'bestest best girlfriend'
Until the next one comes around and steals my foolish 9 year old heart.
The Rotation of emotion?
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So far, my $5 antique-store gold ball-end Tech has given me my best run of irritation-free, comfortably close (though non-BBS) shaves. I've used a Merkur 34C and an EJDE89 and can get a similarly close shave but requiring more passes and touch up, which leads to more irritation.
I'm willing to accept that may be due to my inexperience, but I'm SURE that the Tech is more forgiving to my less than perfect technique. With the Tech, I'm just shaving, not worrying. I love it.
I'm willing to accept that may be due to my inexperience, but I'm SURE that the Tech is more forgiving to my less than perfect technique. With the Tech, I'm just shaving, not worrying. I love it.
I'm pretty new to DE shaving (only a couple of months), but so far my favorite is probably the Merkur 34C. It seems to provide a comfortable, drama-free shave. The EJ DE89 is also quite good.
ATT S1 Calypso XL
Blackbird SB.
Rocnel Sailor
Much as I adore my Henson, I'd have to say my Canadian Pre-War Tech. The Henson makes shaving somewhat idiot-proof but I believe that if you can get good shaves with a Tech, you can probably learn to shave with any razor. I know it taught me a bunch and it isn't done teaching me just yet.
R
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Brass Gibbs 15 with rebalanced handle.
