Awesome Adjustable Arko August!!!!
August 31
Grand Blade Trial
Razor - 1962 (H1) Gillette Slim (9)
Blade -
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Soap - Arko
Brush - Wolf Whiskers Custom Silvertip
Post - Alum, The Veg
Final day on the Royal blade and the Slim was wide open and ready to go. This blade gave a really nice shave on Monday, a fantastic one Tuesday....and today is its last day to impress. And boy did it.
The lather was a bit thin today. I always laugh a bit when I don't have Arko perfect. How easy is it to lather Arko?! And how dumb do you have to be to mess it up? Well, in my case I left the brush a bit too wet and ended up flinging it all over the place. Lather thinned out a bit but it still provided a nice slick base. My first thought on day one of this blade was that it had to be sharp, given the performance at a 2. The second day provided an even better result with no irritation giving it more a characteristic of a not so sharp blade. Today, silky smooth still, no drag, no cuts, nicks, weepers. Nothing. Just a fantastic three pass shave to a very near BBS finish. Acting like a less sharp blade but.....also a sharp blade. So what is it? Who cares....it was one of the best three days I've had without a Russian in the razor. Move the Personna plant somewhere else and I'd buy in bulk. Great performance on this blade.
Tomorrow I'll be moving to the Personna Red to see if the Royal feels the same. Question is - are all of these Israeli's just the same blade rebranded for different markets or are their differences? Since the Red is more or less the legendary blade, it's up next for a comparison point to the Royal and the others that follow.
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