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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
I strop the blade and flip it between each pass. I also ate the Eiffel Tower, and sneezed Haley's Comet... 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...
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.
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?
Not weird, just different. I get, as do many others, five to seven 3-pass shaves out of each blade. To each his own.
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.
