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- Monday December 18, 2017
Recently I bought the Open Comb Bakelite Slant from Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements. I had quite a problem inserting the blade correctly because the distance of the centering pins is too close together and the blade is permanently deformed when you screw the razor together with a little force. In addition, there is the problem that everytime you change the blade material is scraped off the centering pins.
I sent an email to PAA and asked if this could possibly be a production error.
I quickly got an answer indicating that all the circumstances described are completely normal. That would be necessary so that the blade sits firmly in the razor.
Honestly, I am not convinced by this statement. I have never seen before any other DE razor where you have that much blade protrusion at the sides of the razors head and where the blade sticking out so much below the headplate. I have the impression that the razor's overall scale is not right and that every dimension of this razor is too small. I have quite a number of other DE razors and had nowhere any problem with misdimensioned distances of their centering pins or posts.
I have the impression that one tries to save the situation with such statements and to convince the customer that all this is completely normal. But that's just my very personal opinion.
I would like to know if there are other owners of the PAA Bakelite Slant here and what are their opinions about this matter.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this.
I sent an email to PAA and asked if this could possibly be a production error.
I quickly got an answer indicating that all the circumstances described are completely normal. That would be necessary so that the blade sits firmly in the razor.
Honestly, I am not convinced by this statement. I have never seen before any other DE razor where you have that much blade protrusion at the sides of the razors head and where the blade sticking out so much below the headplate. I have the impression that the razor's overall scale is not right and that every dimension of this razor is too small. I have quite a number of other DE razors and had nowhere any problem with misdimensioned distances of their centering pins or posts.
I have the impression that one tries to save the situation with such statements and to convince the customer that all this is completely normal. But that's just my very personal opinion.
I would like to know if there are other owners of the PAA Bakelite Slant here and what are their opinions about this matter.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this.
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