Wait what? Can it be? Can two shavers have the same opinion about something shaving related? Yeah, I don't think I'll use the same blade for shave #5. I'll replace it with a new blade and be pretty happy with that it gave me four excellent shaves.
I am so intrigued by this beautiful razor. Can you help me understand something? Please. You write about removing the blade, do you load and remove the blade from the top? I believe it has a V shape head, and the blade slides inside the V? Am I close?
There's a slot in the back of the head where you insert the blade. It's very neat and the blade locks in place with a nice 'click'. When extracting the blade you pull it out from the same slot. Gently lift it up a bit and pull it straight out. It took me 2-3 times but now the process is second nature.
So, I started with a new blade today, my second overall. The shave quality was noticeably improved over the the first blade at the 3 shave mark. The shave was much closer and "easier". I usually take the blade out of the razor after each shave, but I left it in today. I'm going to evaluate after shave #2. I may buy blades in bulk from Connaught and just go 2 shaves per blade. Life's too short for a crappy shave or some sort like that... I love SE razors and I'm really enjoying this one.
This is a pretty interesting experiment about using a de-spined GEM SE blade in the OneBlade. So far the result are apparently positive. I don't know if I'll try it out myself as I was easily able to get 4-5 very, very good shaves out of the Feather blade but it might be of interest to current or potential owners. Video: Sharpspine's OneBlade adventure thread over on DFS
I'd say it's a 'try at your own risk' experiment but I admire anyone who have the willingness to try out new things and see what does and what doesn't work
Yep. I've shimmed a razor or two in my day The Gem blades have a big following. If I had 500 of them sitting around, I might try it too. It'd be my luck, though, I'd load a Gem blade in the razor and it'd never work again. HA!
