You had me at FedEx...Beautiful.. Great write-up!! Great!! This has been written before but man I wish that razor took a more common blade. I love the design of it.
Mine came in today. I dry shaved a patch on my cheek to get the idea of the angle that's needed. First shave is tomorrow.
All I've read is to 'take short stroke like you would with a vintage SE'. Will be great fun to try mine out tomorrow on 2.5 days of stubble
Thinking I'll just have it on the shelf and look at it. If I shave with it and hate it I will have to send it back.
Will be interesting to compare notes after both of ours first shaves (man is that even grammatically correct - sounds odd) with it tomorrow.
I've read the same thing. By nature, I I shave in a series of small strokes so maybe it will be easy for me. It sure feels nice in the hand. Maybe it's a keeper.
Nope it should be something like. "It will be interesting to compare notes after both of us have had our first shave" =P but this is a chat/forum who cares. We understod what you meant
It should be "...both of our first shaves." Since 'our' is already referring to a plural. "Our razors," "Our bikes," etc. That would change if it was phrased as a form of the possessive case of we used as a predicate adjective. "Those razors are ours."
Shave Report - Day 1 This morning it was finally time to try out the OneBlade. Being at home today - and lazy as the extreme rain didn't encourage me to step outside - I didn't shave until late in the afternoon so the razor had almost over three days of stubble to deal with. Loaded up a fresh blade w/out any issues. Simply insert it from the back of the head and push it through until it clicks in place. Double-checked that it was leaning against - and not on top of - the blade stoppers and it was. Picked out a New Forest brush, some T&H soap and a bottle of Floid Blue as fun candidates for the afternoon shave. Lathered up some soap (man, I love New Forest brushes...) and put razor-to-face for the first time. Would it be a keeper on a shelf? Would it be sent back? Would I love it? First stroke felt odd, adjusted the angle just a tiny bit and it all fell into place. Once dialed in (literally w/in two strokes) the razor shaved and let me tell you - it shaved well. It's not an aggressive razor but it's not as 'mild' as say a PAL injector, Wilkinson Sticky and/or Gillette Blue Tip - it has a bite to it but it is very well controlled. As I was completing my first pass (WTG) I noticed that it was more audible than I thought it would be. I like that as it can sometimes help dial in an angle more accurately. My two trouble-spots (under the nose and under the chin) were both very closely shaved after the first pass. There was never any risk of blood letting but the result was a very close firs-pass shave. I went back in for a second, and last, pass (ATG) and the same feelings as during the first pass - nice audible shave, close and efficient. As I rinsed off my face with some cold water and splashed on some Floid Blue my felt was indeed very closely shaved and no irritations or discomfort. Now, it would be easy to just say that it's a great razor but I think that would be an easy 'out' for me so let's compare it to the King Cobra that I purchased just 1-2 weeks ago and have had three shaves with so far - and it's also a single edge razor. As much as I love the King Cobra and the shave it gives me I will have to declare the OneBlade the 'winner' between the two. It's easier to navigate around my face and felt less prone to cut me while using it. Is it the best SE razor I've ever used? This is where it gets tricky as I've only used this razor once so I'll save the final verdict on that until the end of the week to see if it can beat out some of my personal SE favorites such as the Schick Type O, Mongoose, Schick Paul Revere, GEM Damaskeene OC and Le Coq (hoe razor)... The "bad": The one thing that I didn't care for was how you unload the blade. You pull it out of the same slot as you inserted it into and if you, like me, take out the blade of the razor every time you've used it I can see how inserting and replacing it may damange the edge of the blade as there is direct metal-to-blade edge contact when you pull it out. I feel that it's a near perfect design but with a flawed blade extraction. I know that the site recommends using the blade just once but online most people seem to get four-or-so shaves out of the blade. I wonder if the people that get less than four shaves out of the blade are the people that take the blade out after every shave. I'll try to use the same blade all week. TL;DR: Loved the razor, loved the shave but not sure if the blade extraction will damage the blade and shorten the life of the blades.
Hmm, so it wasn't an extremely comfortable shave? So far anything but the ASD2 scorches my skin when it comes to safety razors, so comfort is a big thing to me.
I used my OneBlade today for the first time as well @Darkbulb . My impressions are very similar to yours all around. I've always struggled with what differentiates an "aggressive" razor from an "efficient" one. To me, the Cobra is an aggressive razor while the OneBlade is efficient. The design of the head encourages you to use the predetermined angle, like many injectors and SE razors. The design of the blade exposure, blade gap and head angle make this a razor a pleasure to shave with. It's well-balanced in the hand and I don't feel like one end is weighting the other end down. Maneuvering the razor around my face was intuitive and almost fun. The blade feels substantial against the skin and the comparison to a DE blade is easily noticed. The blade feels secure in the head with no wobbling or uneasiness. I do share @Darkbulb questions regarding unloading the blade. I like to unload the blade from my razors in-between shaves to allow for complete drying of the razor. I can see where repeated loading and unloading of the razor can result in the corners of the blade being damaged because there's no way to avoid the metal-to-metal contact during the process. Time will tell. Cleanup is easy as the razor is one piece of steel. I just lightly towel dried it and set it on it stand. The stand, BTW, could easily double as a brake calipers on a dump truck. This thing is HULKING. I need more shaves to honestly evaluate the razor system as a whole, but so far, a good start.
Great write-up and interesting that we're pretty much aligned in how we see the razor so far. It will be fun to see how/if these opinions change over the course of the week....
Just shave with it already, I can't stand the suspense! If a razor like that showed up at my house it would have been wet in 10 minutes..
I had read a review elsewhere and the person said that they didn't think it was possible to cut themselves with the OB. Now I see what they were getting at.
