The world's first 7 blade razor is here...

I totally agree with you here, Mr. Nathan. Filing patents is a good way to keep others from accessing that idea as a full fledged market product.

 

When they first introduced the 2 blade razor they said the first blade lifts the whisker and the second blade cuts it off. Now I guess the first blade picks up the whisker, the second takes it to dinner, the third to a movie the fourth gives it a good massage yadayadayada and finally when the whisker least expects it the seventh blade cuts it off 6 inches below the surface of the skin.

 

I'd rather have a 7 days Wilinson Sword Empire. It's one razor with seven blades as well, but more to my taste.

 

How do you re-sharpen (hone) the blades once these become dull?

 

Yes, but think of how much time you will save! You have only to put that monster across your cheeks, twitch it roughly an Angstrom or two and your whole face is BBS.

 

That joke was funny ten years ago.

 

I liken 40 years of multiblade razor shaving to sticking your face in a fan. My Monday shave was OK, Tuesday it began to hurt, Wed-Fri. raw hamburger meat, no shaving on weekends if I could possibly avoid it.

 

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That looks scary

 

The complete set has a strop as well. Plus the blades can be removed and be honed seperately. Try that with a Dorco!

 

That is exactly what I am asking, how do you hone these? I know a straight razor can be easily honed but these blades are small and can't be honed by hand right?

 

This reminds me of an MadTV sketch -

 

Some of this type of set had a handle you could put the blade on to hone it. I've been told you can hone them by hand and been told descriptions of how but I'm afraid my memory isn't letting me know how right now.

 

I found a picture.

 

Wonderful! thanks for the picture

 

That joke was never funny...

 

Yeah, but the Spishak spoof just made me wet myself.

 

Neat!

And there is => *this link* <= about honing wedge blades. Not exactly Wilkinson Sword blades (those are narrower and have a hollow grind), but it may help.

 

Something has started bothering me about the Dorco Pace 7...

How is it that Dorco, a relative newcomer, can make a 7-blade cart when Gillette, with over a century of experience, hasn't broken the 5-blade barrier? Is this a case of the Pace 7 being purely about blade count and not shaving science, comfort or necessity? Or is it the case that we have hit a new low in American engineering and material science (i.e, 50 years ago we could land a man on the moon...)?

Thoughts?

JR

 

Perhaps it is about the balance between size of the cartridge and the distance between the blades. When the gap between the blades is too narrow it clogs up too much and it is too difficult to rinse out again.