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DimaG
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Dec 24, 2017
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At first I thought something like "a blade for hipsters to shave the hipster away". Then I remembered I have a Gillette head with 7 fucking blades in it and to what a useless state modern shaving equipment has evolved. This suddenly made a lot more sense.
Dec 24, 2017
K.T.N
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May 28, 2018
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DimaGBack when Gillette came out with the Trac II way back when, I recall there was one of those spoof commercials on Saturday Night Live about a razor that had four blades in the head.
Obviously a ridiculous and laughable notion at the time. Yet, look where we are now.
I took up wet shaving with double and single edged safety razors, as well Feather and other replaceable blade straights, for the coolness and practicality of it a number of years back. It really is a neat subculture. I’m glad I got into it.
As for cartridge razors, I got as far as the 5 bladed Schick Hydro and the Gillette Proglide before I grew a beard and stopped full shaving.
I have to say, I did get superbly close and irritation-free shaves those two cartridge razors. And they were really fast, too.
So despite a lot of folks in the wet shaving community disparaging and poo pooing them, I found them to shave extremely well, and very quickly. So no complaints from me about performance.
The price of those cartridges, however, are close to criminal, and that’s what I find so onerous about mass market razors.
Plus, there’s no romance or soul to them. They're practical and have their place, but they’re not part of an artful or aesthetic lifestyle, if that kind of thing is important to you.
This Feather a very niche product in the shaving ecosystem, but a very cool one. Not only is It one of the closest shaving razors you’ll ever use (I have several of the straight handled Kamisori variants), but it is one of the scariest (even folks who who use traditional straight razors regularly often tremble at the extreme sharpness of the Feather blades and exacting skill and focus required to survive a Feather shave unscathed).
So it’s not a beginner’s razor. But think of the pride and bragging rights you’ll have once you’ve mastered it.
May 28, 2018
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