Blade turning

Discussion in 'Shave School' started by bperryman1, Oct 23, 2009.

  1. bperryman1

    bperryman1 Member

    Was wondering if it makes a difference or if anyone does this. When your done shaving and your wiping down your shaver do you turn the blade over for the next shave. What I mean is do you flip the blade over so that the top side of the blade is now at the bottom. Im just curious to see if it prolongs the life of a blade.
     
  2. swarden43

    swarden43 "It's your shave. Enjoy it your way."©

    Yup. I turn it over after I hand strop.
    Honestly don't know if turning it over does any good or not.
    I personally believe hand stropping gives me an extra couple of 3-pass shaves.
     
  3. ChemErik

    ChemErik Mr. Personality

    I usually turn my blade over, but forget occasionally. I don't notice a difference when I forget, but it's a habit to do it most of the time.
     
  4. Etoyoc

    Etoyoc Backwards

    nope... this isn't something that I do.
     
  5. wchnu

    wchnu Duck Season!

    Don't do it myself... never have seen the advantage to it.

    Fuzzy
     
  6. jfever311

    jfever311 Active Member

    So long as you are stropping the blade, flipping it would have no real benefits.
     
  7. ThePossum

    ThePossum Member

    I hand strop after every shave but do not really take notice if the blade gets turned or not. Never really gave it any thought.
     
  8. CSBudzi

    CSBudzi Member

    Is hand stropping, stropping the blade, replacing a leather strip, with the skin of your hand? Still pretty new to DE's.
    Since I have a straight razor strop should I be using that?
     
  9. jfever311

    jfever311 Active Member




    See this for details.

    http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10716
     
  10. sol92258

    sol92258 I have no earthly idea

    I strop the blade and flip it between each pass.

    I also ate the Eiffel Tower, and sneezed Haley's Comet...

    :D

    Theoretically, turning the blade would seem to promote more even wear, but in practice, I've not really been able to tell a difference when I tested with it.
    That doesn't mean you won't, but this is one situation where YMMV would surprise me.

    Now, blade stropping, that's a big of a different story...
     
  11. Mojavered

    Mojavered New Member

    Funny, I thought that it was a given to flip the blade for "even wear". I am going to have to try and relax and see if there is a noticable difference or not by not flipping it or just not paying so much attention when I put the blade back in after stropping.
     
  12. shavejunkie

    shavejunkie New Member

    I must apologize, I have no input here as I only use my blades once and recycle them. Am I a weirdo or does anyone else do this?
     
  13. swarden43

    swarden43 "It's your shave. Enjoy it your way."©

    Not weird, just different. I get, as do many others, five to seven 3-pass shaves out of each blade. To each his own.
     
  14. The only time I open a razor is to replace the blade, so, no, I don't turn the blade over. ;)
     
  15. hunnymonster

    hunnymonster Member

    :sihns011
     
  16. TuttoItaliaOnline

    TuttoItaliaOnline New Member

    Has anyone ever seen miroscopic pictures made from blades that were used, compared to unused? I'd be curious to see the difference to A: the new ones and B: the "flipped" ones.

    In a movie about shaving (National.Geographic.Secrets.Of.Shaving) I saw some enhancements of what they actually do on a molecular lever to make blades sharp, but that was an animation, not the real blades.
     

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