OK I just want to say I'm not trying to justify my new habit of buying shaving goods
I started DE shaving with a Parker (loaned by a friend) while waiting delivery of my Merkur 34c, the Parker was duly returned and I got on OK with the Merkur, so I bought a spare Merkur :roll: tried it with several different blades some good some not so good :idea:
Then I recently bought a Edwin Jagger DE87 with the white 'ivory' handle :!: what a difference :shave I can honestly say that FOR ME it's a better razor, in fact i've tried it with blades that I'd previously put aside as 'tried but not good for me' and found that it wasn't the blades after all maybe my technique with the Merkur wasn't as good or whatever, the DE87 seems to be the razor for me
So, the habit of buying and trying different razors/blades/soaps etc is perhaps not quite as bad a habit as I may have thought, My used Merkur has gone in the drawer (for now) and the 'spare' Merkur could well be sold/swapped at some time in the future :roll: Meanwhile I'm going to keep ringing the changes with blades in the DE87 :idea:
.... as well as trying different soaps/creams/brushes/AS :lol:
I started DE shaving with a Parker (loaned by a friend) while waiting delivery of my Merkur 34c, the Parker was duly returned and I got on OK with the Merkur, so I bought a spare Merkur :roll: tried it with several different blades some good some not so good :idea:
Then I recently bought a Edwin Jagger DE87 with the white 'ivory' handle :!: what a difference :shave I can honestly say that FOR ME it's a better razor, in fact i've tried it with blades that I'd previously put aside as 'tried but not good for me' and found that it wasn't the blades after all maybe my technique with the Merkur wasn't as good or whatever, the DE87 seems to be the razor for me
So, the habit of buying and trying different razors/blades/soaps etc is perhaps not quite as bad a habit as I may have thought, My used Merkur has gone in the drawer (for now) and the 'spare' Merkur could well be sold/swapped at some time in the future :roll: Meanwhile I'm going to keep ringing the changes with blades in the DE87 :idea:
.... as well as trying different soaps/creams/brushes/AS :lol: