Well, as I was approaching the enterance to my shave-cave, anticipating my reunion with my 'H' type, the idea hit me...I had been running my mouth about how nothing in my shave world shaved better than my Schick Simplified Automatic C3....and @
Karl G called me on it...He said he wouldn't want to see my shave-cave after my Hussy heard about that....
So I'm thinking....an impromtu bout between two of Victor Octavius Rodrigues' progeny....the C3 & H1.....my two travel-jectors...
No time to sell tickets...so a closed match, just Shave-Cave residents present...
I reach for my 'H'....she didn't seem excited...Strange.....she seemed more hungry.....I haven't used her in some time, so I think she was more hungry for whiskers and some quality time eating them than a match and having to share...
But, a match it will be....I racked a new EMS/Personna coated, not her favorite, but she's not too finicky...
Now I reached for the C3....I've been shaving with this blade for I don't know how long....over a week....Last shave I needed more than usual touch-up. So now my favorite part, and sure to get a couple "cool points" from the judges...I opened the blade drawer, take out the magazine, dropped a blade in it. Slipped it back in the blade drawer, snapped it in and racked the slide and..........OOOOHHHHH NOOOOOO!
Absolutely jammed! This C3 has a very good blade injecting system...But now when the chips are down a Deadly Jam...A Fatal Error....Disqualified !
I could have grabbed my screwdrivers and reading glasses and gone downstairs to my kitchen table with the bright lights and disassembled it...fixed it....reassembled and ran a few blades through to make sure everything was cool as I have before....But no.....I think, under the circumstances....If this had been an old West gun fight....the C3 would have been on it's way to "Boot Hill"
So now I'm thinking, I already had a shave off between the 'H' and my PAL, in which the 'H' took it after 2 passes and touch ups...the Pal side needed another touch up....There will be a re-match, but that will be scheduled....Tonight's was a grudge match instigated by Karl....So I think, the 'H' deserves to eat all the whiskers I have to offer....
And voracious she was too....2 passes and touch up left me "patting a dolphin" smooth....after the first pass, the moustace area sides, and my lower cheek, and jawbone, problem areas were already BBS. I couldn't believe it...All I really needed was a touch up then...But I did an ATG pass and some buffing on my neck....This H type is a buffing monster...
I had kind of lost my technique; at first; for holding her...I used maybe a bit more pressure than necessary...Afterwards the Clubman Special Reserve burned a touch...But not a hint of redness. And not a hint of missed whisker action either....
Long Live the Queen!
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I don't know if Hussy is the right word for this one.....She is deadly with a blade....Kind of like Catherine Zeta Jones in Zorro.....only she's kicking Zorro's blade guard....Those that have been with her, love her....You know who you are....What do you guys think? Maybe "H" is for "Her Majesty".......although...she is surely a Queen, she sure has been with alot of cats....lol....Maybe Her Majesty is a Hussy.....

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