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- Sunday March 17, 2013
If you try these blades yo will see they didnt forget quality control, they forgot to put them in t be sharpened! please see my thread about these blades, I would really like to send you a few to try and comment upon, your experience would confirm both of our thoughts and you may have some FEs to compare against to see if they are maybe fakes?NotTheStig said:Grunter said:Scswalex said:Wednesday
A very BAD experience today
Gillette face wash
Proraso pre
TOBS avacado
New forest 1901
Merkur progress set to 3.5
Flying Eagle blade then Gillette yellow
Witch hazel
Nivea balm
His shave started well, good lather on the brush and then on the face started to shave and then........nothing. This razor didnt work! It worked yesterday but the blade was new to me, sme Flying Eagle blades I purchased from ebay, they look OK, in fact they looked really good.... But they didn't work, they didnt touch my hairs at all, didnt cut jus tugged. Did a whole pass which felt like I hadn't started. I swapped to the Yellow and finished and the end result was ok but I think the FE blades must be the problem.
When I have time later I will investigate, I sent some of these blades to Grunter so will be note rested to hear if he has used them yet?
Simon
After Simon's comments I dug out my FE's and brought my shave forward.
Same procedure as always hot water splash at the sink,MWF,HD Rocket.
First cheek-Lots of tugging,almost painful and not much whisker removal.In denial of what I just experienced tried the other cheek with the same result.
They made the Wilkie's Laser's I tried recently feel ultra sharp.
Quickly switched to the Rapira Swedish Supersteel which was on its 5th shave and my face felt like it was massaged by Hummingbird wings as it effortlessly completed the shave.
Noted NTS comments above but I really could not have pain/tugging sensation until 2nd pass. I can't imangine how they would have felt on the neck!
On the plus side I have tried a blade That I didn't have thanks to Simon:icon_razz:
I think quality control is an afterthought with some of the Chinese blades.
Si