YinTal?

I received mine and I'm very impressed. Blade gap is around 0.80 so it's efficient. I wouldn't call it smooth - it's a very direct shave. I got some blade feel and audible feedback but no irritation, so I'd call it a success. I did a shave off against my Merkur Progress set at roughly the same gap and the Progress was quite a lot smoother with less feedback. Efficiency was very similar.

I find the handle is an issue - it's too long and heavy for me at 100mm, 12mm and 80g. I may try and cut a bit off the end of it. It looks great and I assume it's brass, so if you like a heavy handle it's a good deal. The head is clearly Zamak at 32g. It's nicely finished and the blade sits accurately. At the price this is a very classy razor. My solution to the handle is to swap it over with my matte black Yaqi handle, which I really like. That's 91mm, 12mm and 66g. It's pretty perfect for the Yintal head, balances well and is good to hold. This is a Frankenrazor which I like using quite a lot, and right now I expect it to have a worthy place in my rotation.
 
So what's the deal in notching a closed bar design, what benefits can be acquired from doing this?...

Easier to machine possibly as well as IMO the Merkur style cuts are of no particular advantage over the old Gillette Tech style ones. That may be because in the end it's irrelevant as they really don't function like many think. Many old Schick injector razors have horizontal lines and shave like snot on glass. ;)
 
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