It feels great, looks beautiful and removes the stubble well, I don't know why it doesn't glide.Yes I think I know what you mean. I tend to make shorter strokes with this razor. The weight/balance is excellent imo.
It's an enigma.
It feels great, looks beautiful and removes the stubble well, I don't know why it doesn't glide.Yes I think I know what you mean. I tend to make shorter strokes with this razor. The weight/balance is excellent imo.
Extro Tabacco ~ Semogue Owners Club ~ Merkur Mergress ~ Gillette Nacet ~ Extro Tabacco
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Gentlemen - to avoid disappointment - and potential injury from your badger knot - consult an artisan brush maker first - make sure you have it mounted on a handle before attempting lathering - granted this may just annoy it more than it was annoyed already.
Sotd - Tuesday 10/7/18 -
Razor - Schick O Type clone
blade - Schick Twin modern
brush - Semogue HD silver tip
soap - SV Tundra Artica
post - witch hazel
a/s - Vitos Tabacco
balm - BBA.
Result - sweet.
Praise be to - insert the deity of your choice - it has been a bit cooler today - still muggy and humid though. I'm Scottish - I can't deal with this much longer. I look across the room and see my - very expensive - Goretex jacket - unloved and unused for weeks if not months - it is not natural. A great mix and match shave for me. SV soaps appear - and are - pricey - at point of sale - but given how long they last are actually very good value for money. It would take me a while to think of a better performing non-tallow soap. I very much enjoyed reading @Palmolive fox description of his first use of the 1912 razor. It was exactly the same experience for me - something that looks like a medieval torture implement on first glance. Once you get over that - what an incredibly good shave it gives. I enjoy the 'deafening' feed back - lets you know where you have been on your face already. It turned out to be my 'gateway drug' for vintage single edges - I was gifted the American version by a fellow member - and have added the British variant and a Gem MMOC brass since to the rotation. All of them faultless in use. It is a slippery slope - the vintage Schicks came next. It makes you think - why re-invent the wheel? I have been intrigued by people mounting the ER heads on other handles - to change the weight or balance. How does that work? It might appear to involve the use of 'grub screws.' I have no idea what they are. Can anyone explain this to me? So - job done - bbs - excellent face feel still - enjoy yours - I.
Oh - there is no follow up on the picture tonight. I had intended to do a piece on the etymology of the modern English use of the word 'badger' - and its cognates in other European languages but I just ended up bogged down in proto Indo-European roots. Most of which go back to the idea of tunneling or digging - which I suppose is fair enough. Sett and setting - ha ha ha ha - nobody should ever laugh at their own jokes. Especially that obscure.
Yes I think I know what you mean. I tend to make shorter strokes with this razor. The weight/balance is excellent imo.
Thanks for the tag, the 1912 was an amazing maiden shave. Regards BView attachment 36906
Gentlemen - to avoid disappointment - and potential injury from your badger knot - consult an artisan brush maker first - make sure you have it mounted on a handle before attempting lathering - granted this may just annoy the badger more than it was annoyed already.
Sotd - Tuesday 10/7/18 -
Razor - Schick O Type clone
blade - Schick Twin modern
brush - Semogue HD silver tip
soap - SV Tundra Artica
post - witch hazel
a/s - Vitos Tabacco
balm - BBA.
Result - sweet.
Praise be to - insert the deity of your choice - it has been a bit cooler today - still muggy and humid though. I'm Scottish - I can't deal with this much longer. I look across the room and see my - very expensive - Goretex jacket - unloved and unused for weeks if not months - it is not natural. A great mix and match shave for me. SV soaps appear - and are - pricey - at point of sale - but given how long they last are actually very good value for money. It would take me a while to think of a better performing non-tallow soap. I very much enjoyed reading @Palmolive fox description of his first use of the 1912 razor. It was exactly the same experience for me - something that looks like a medieval torture implement on first glance. Once you get over that - what an incredibly good shave it gives. I enjoy the 'deafening' feed back - lets you know where you have been on your face already. It turned out to be my 'gateway drug' for vintage single edges - I was gifted the American version by a fellow member - and have added the British variant and a Gem MMOC brass since to the rotation. All of them faultless in use. It is a slippery slope - the vintage Schicks came next. It makes you think - why re-invent the wheel? I have been intrigued by people mounting the ER heads on other handles - to change the weight or balance. How does that work? It might appear to involve the use of 'grub screws.' I have no idea what they are. Can anyone explain this to me? So - job done - bbs - excellent face feel still - enjoy yours - I.
Oh - there is no follow up on the picture tonight. I had intended to do a piece on the etymology of the modern English use of the word 'badger' - and its cognates in other European languages but I just ended up bogged down in proto Indo-European roots. Most of which go back to the idea of tunneling or digging - which I suppose is fair enough. Sett and setting - ha ha ha ha - nobody should ever laugh at their own jokes. Especially that obscure.