I have been super busy, but playing along in the spirit of Mayhem. First shave:
-Shavecraft El Jefe
-Stirling Black and White
-Speick Cream
-Stirling Gin and Tonic
The El Jefe was a disastrous rollout of a razor that had quality control managed by Sargeant Schultz. Out of about twenty handles, of varying degrees of quality, I’ve only found two that will actually thread on tightly. The blade posts are so sloppily turned that you can darn near make this razor a SEvette or hide the blade like a turtles head. When Ikon starts automatically crediting refunds into PayPal accounts, you know it’s bad. Especially if you know Ikon. That said, with a little aligning effort it is a fantastic shaving razor. Tonight’s hotel shave was flawless.
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-Feather SS
-Stirling Black and White
-Jeeves Bay Rum
-Stirling Gin and Tonic
While I still find the SS to be a more difficult razor to master than its counterparts, I have gotten my technique to a point where shaving with it is almost second nature. Few bloodless DFS’s, and I have found a new favorite traveler.
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So I went into full Mayhem today. DeskShaver 1.0 didn’t even make it into a first pass, before I added the second blade, for visibility reasons. Well the first blade, which was already Super Glued to the pen was centered. This left an insanely high shaving angle if you tried to use it from the pen side. So I glued another the other way, and left the exposure angle as long as possible.
Let’s just say it mostly worked. I finished an actually pretty good N to S pass that would have left me SAS, and damn near made it back up the hill S to N when the glue gave out, a blade corner caught a bit when the blade shifted in the clip, and I gave myself a little sting on my jaw that I used a little styptic on. Overall razor success: 4.75. Fun factor 7.
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