Saturday 24th June 2017
Pre Shave: Hot Shower, L'Oreal Pure Power Face Wash and Proraso White
Razor: OneBlade Core
Blade: Feather FHS-10 (#1)
Brush: Maseto Fan Shape 2 band finest 30mm
Soap: Tabac
Post: Alum Block, Cold water and Thayers Lemon Witch Hazel
AS: Tabac AS Lotion + Nivea Soothing Balm
My new Maseto brush arrived this morning so I gave it a quick shampoo straight away and left it to dry until I was ready to shave. After washing the brush it bloomed nicely. This is the biggest knot brush I now own, I have a 24mm Maseto 2 band finest which works well, but this thing is a monster. I decided to use Tabac for my shave today, the Maseto brush made short work of creating enough lather to shave about 5 times! This brush is absolutely fantastic after just one use, but then any brush can lather Tabac. Face feel is great and I think this is the best face lathering brush I have used.
@Len on ATG has summed the Core up pretty well in his review on ATG, plus he has the Genesis to compare with. see here
http://www.atgshaving.com/threads/oneblade-core-impressions-with-genesis-comparisons.6536/
Maiden shave with the OneBlade Core.
The Good
The razor feels very good quality for what is basically a plastic razor with a lump of metal inserted into it. I found the razor very easy to use. it feels more akin to shaving with a cartridge razor but with the blade feel of a SE/DE razor. This is a very mild razor and it feels like you would need try very hard to cut yourself with it while shaving. While the final result was a very smooth and a pretty quick shave, it was not as close as I can get with other razors, but it was very consistent. I can see this being a great razor for when you want a shave but you are in a hurry or maybe not feeling 100% it really is very easy to use.
The Bad
The handle of the razor is very robust but the same cannot be said of the head assembly of this razor it feels pretty flimsy. Inserting and removing the blades can be a bit fiddly but once you work it out it is ok, but there seems to be scope for wearing the blade slot and blades stops out. It is also possible to pop the head out of position if too much pressure is applied, I know as I stupidly did this, while I know it was my own fault it was pretty easy to do it. If this happens the spring is revealed and it does not easily go back into position. Luckily I was able to get it back in position, it took two attempts and only worked properly when I took the spring out and reversed it as one end of the spring must have got stretched. Hopefully other Core owners will not be as hamfisted as I am!
The verdict (well sort of)
Well I am not going to make my mind up fully until I have shaved some more with the Core. That said other razors I have gave me a superb shave from the first shave, such as:
PAL Injecto-matic with Chinese Schick Blade
Schick Adjustable with a twin blade
Rockwell 6C
Ever Ready 1924 with Gem Stainless coated blade
The Core did not have that first shave wow factor, but that does not mean it ain't a good razor. As I said it seems very easy to use.
