Bill, I don’t know if I agree completely with you, as my path was quite different. I literally spent half a century single pass shaving ( if you could call it that) with a Schick Krona DE. That may have conditioned me to feel comfortable with just about any DE. In my case, it appears I am incapable of shaving with pivoting head razors. I never shaved with carts, so ‘negative pressure’ in the safety razor category is second nature to me! I understand pressure with electric razors which I shaved with when traveling, although I never liked them. When I tried the Genesis I didn’t understand the pressure required and ended up cutting myself with the supposedly uncuttable razor. Things were better with the Broman, but the shave was very unsatisfactory. So in that sense there does seem to be a wider variety of techniques required for the masterful safety razor shaver amongst whom I would put
@clint64,
@jmudrick and
@jluc who have mastered the broad range of techniques necessary for the supremely capable safety razor shaver - carts, pivoting head single edge, Gems, DEs, AC safety razors and injectors. I personally feel comfortable and capable with just about any fixed head safety razor, am coming into my own with straight razors, but am still fumbling about in the Barber’s razor/shavette arena. The Feather AC DX Barber’s razor is my current focus. I feel very comfortable with the Feather AC SS lower end offering, both folding and Kamisori. I have no interest in DE Shavettes. So, yes, I would agree with you with respect to the broader safety razor category. The Rolls, Darwin and all extinct proprietary blade razors are excluded, although I would bet our resident razor design historian, Jeff Mudrick, has probably shaved with most if not all of them.
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