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Huh. Here's the view from Yorkshire, and if I'm not tight as a duck's arse (watertight), I'm slipping. Some blades are uniformly poor, and some are erratic: I'm not going into that. Some deteriorate suddenly, notably Feathers. Bin them as soon as they go off the boil, 2 1/2 shaves for me...

I've calmed down just a little bit after my last post on just how macho we all are to be shaving with bits of steel and all that ;) My take on all this is as follows: 1) There are no very good DE blades in current production. 2) The very good blades which you may still find are Gillette...

Strangely enough, I was sat in the car this lunchtime contemplating the dash out into no man's land for a cigarette, when I ran a hand over my face and verily t'was rough as a***holes, alas. Ah well, never mind, 'tis what comes of being a member of the stubbly sex. Not to worry, eh? I'm...

Yeah, yeah spacer, hi there and all that ... no doubt there'll be plenty of suggestions for good investments. Take 'em with a pinch of salt, play it canny, and you can escape from here with honour and bank balance intact. Not fancying a cut throat razor at all, are you? :icon_twisted:

Plenty of people like TIs, I don't have an opinion. £80 is enough to find a very good shave ready vintage blade with a bit of history about it though.

My very best wishes to you both.

This is most likely blind prejudice, but I thought the fad for fat ass razors was an American thing. Probably something to do with those thumping great Wade and Butcher trophy blades which appear so regularly at SRP. Good for mowing down stubble on the cheeks I suppose, but anything much over...

Welcome Thom :)

RE: Todays drink with a Rorschach test * 1/2 blob*... Skinny lop-eared poodle.

Me neither, except for the Karelia Suite.

I haven't shot for quite a while now, and it's perishing out there at the moment. Never was much of a one for the "frostbite" shoots. Last time I checked I was nearly at bowman grade (recurve), but no cigar yet. The heavy duty competitive atmosphere at our club got me down a bit. For me...

RE: Todays drink with a Rorschach test *31/1 blob*... Anti clockwise - a glum sailor with a big beard.

I find the selective colourising process remarkably tedious (mind you, I use GIMP!), so full marks for the first one. As Fido says, get stuck into Shave of the Day: it'll be nice to see a fresh take on the subject.

Northumberland is just magnificent, and I can only second what The Geordie Shaver has said. In truth you can hardly go wrong. A drive up Kielder forest way, over the border through Jedburgh, Kelso and Coldstream and thence to Berwick on a fine day is rewarding; way down South Hexham is as nice...

... but if you have enough shave ready razors, presumably you can defer the inevitable beyond your likely lifespan. Not thinking of anybody in particular here, of course. :dodgy:

From what you tell me, Neil, not unless you're very lucky.

Camilla Läckberg book finished, entertaining as usual so thanks to Mikael for the initial recommendation. Next: Very taken with this author.

My Cyril Salter strategy has paid off so far, so I haven't even seen far less honed one. Nonetheless, if they're Dovos in drag that should at least mean that the steel is up to snuff. I still suspect that the trouble is down to technique, but given your light beard I'm a little less sure now -...

RE: Todays drink with a Rorschach test *28/1 blob*... I couldn't make anything of yesterday's, but this one was instant. William got there first :)

Yep, I do this as an adjunct to honing rather than as a means of routine maintenance. Very effective for calming down a snappish edge, and it tends to take the HHT up a notch or so. Neil has some very interesting theories about this, and he inclines to the view that newsprint ain't what it...