Another couple outings with Wolf Man.
Today with a Feather blade (2nd outing) and Strop Shoppe Bay Rum with tallow and a Muhle 25mm synthetic.
I asked earlier if by not shaving for three days it might give a closer shave when you you eventually do. I'm pretty sure now that (for me at least) the answer is yes...albeit only by a tiny amount.
Used the AS-D2 once yesterday just as comparison. Obviously most definitely milder, and incredibly smooth, but, as we all know, needs more work to achieve similar results but I'm reminded that it (the Feather) is still a cracking, smooth and delightful thing to behold, and to hold, and I can't imagine wanting to part with it as we speak (but we all change our thinking over time, do we not? so never say never).
The Wolfman continues to perform as it did earlier but it reminds you now and again that it's not an AS-D2....you can't swing it round your mush like the Feather or a Gillette Sensor with gay abandon. Or, come to think about it, with any other sort of abandon. It'll give you a little nip if you get too familiar with it. I wonder how the standard version performs...not this special one with an increased gap? (Just remembered that it had the Feather blade in today, as opposed to the Polsilver before and that might have made it a little more lively?).
Again I say I could so easily be satisfied with this as my only razor. And different blades may well fine tune each use? But there again, I could easily just use the Standard, or the S2, or the 37C...it's just that I feel this one has the edge. And again I say the handle is fine but I think I'd use, say, the Kronos handle in the longer term if I bought this razor (head), due to the better grip - there's 2 or 3 mm difference in length between the Wolfman and the Kronos handles, the Wolfman being the longer. Much as I respect and have much fondness for the AS-D2 I don't feel that it would happily sit as my ONLY razor.
Being a spectacle wearer, and not wishing to wear them whilst shaving, I have a bit of difficulty distinguishing the two different edges every time I rinse and re-appy to my face and either have to feel the edge with a finger tip to detect the open comb edge or hold it up to the (5 x times) magnifying mirror to see which is which...all of which is something I've not had to do before. This might influence any future purchase of a double sided razor....or I might just get used to it and not worry about it.
I have yet to try the ATT R2 and it might be that I'll change my view about everything after trying it.
Enough.
Will have a few more shaves with it and pass it on - certainly I'll not keep it longer than 5 days.
Further thanks indeed to Martin for this opportunity. (How I hate that "thanks for the opportunity" expression) .... but it's appropriate on this occasion.
