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Thursday 25th March
French Pink Clay & Charcoal Face Soap
Yardley Shaving Soap (Vintage)
Semogue SOC Taj (Boar)
Muhle Rocca R96
Gillette 7 O'Clock Sharp Edge (1)
Denim Aftershave (Vintage)
Boy, oh boy! What a great shave ...
After a rather disappointing experience with the regular green pack Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Stainless and a handful of notes from a good few years ago when I first came to traditional shaving and tried these blades out for the first time, I went in rather fearing for the worst.
I've re-read opinions on this blade and got everything from "Feather sharp" to "actually not empirically sharp but does sharpen up during the first shave, then tails off" but it's my experience that counts and I am very happy to say that it was a good experience. Nay! Very good!
From the first stroke, the blade was very efficient! It is indeed sharp yet with a smoothness that I usually associate with good stainless blades rather than platinum blades. I tend to find platinum blades so smooth that they rather lose some of the feeling of sharpness that somehow gives a false impression of the blade - a bit like siuper-light power steering, you're not fully connected. It's for that reason that I tend to prefer stainless.
This blade is a platinum blade, but it is absolutely chalk and cheese different to the black packaged Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Platinum (India) which I used the other day. That blade is a super-smooth ride and very much akin to my general experiences of super platinum blades.
The Sharp Edge is different ...
I have a theory brewing and will take another couple of shaves with this blade. Suffice to say, it reminds me a LOT of another blade now manufactured by Gillette in their Russian factory, a blade you'd not normally associate with being a platinum blade and one which shaves super-sharp from the off as it's most recognisable characteristic.
French Pink Clay & Charcoal Face Soap
Yardley Shaving Soap (Vintage)
Semogue SOC Taj (Boar)
Muhle Rocca R96
Gillette 7 O'Clock Sharp Edge (1)
Denim Aftershave (Vintage)
Boy, oh boy! What a great shave ...
After a rather disappointing experience with the regular green pack Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Stainless and a handful of notes from a good few years ago when I first came to traditional shaving and tried these blades out for the first time, I went in rather fearing for the worst.
I've re-read opinions on this blade and got everything from "Feather sharp" to "actually not empirically sharp but does sharpen up during the first shave, then tails off" but it's my experience that counts and I am very happy to say that it was a good experience. Nay! Very good!
From the first stroke, the blade was very efficient! It is indeed sharp yet with a smoothness that I usually associate with good stainless blades rather than platinum blades. I tend to find platinum blades so smooth that they rather lose some of the feeling of sharpness that somehow gives a false impression of the blade - a bit like siuper-light power steering, you're not fully connected. It's for that reason that I tend to prefer stainless.
This blade is a platinum blade, but it is absolutely chalk and cheese different to the black packaged Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Platinum (India) which I used the other day. That blade is a super-smooth ride and very much akin to my general experiences of super platinum blades.
The Sharp Edge is different ...
I have a theory brewing and will take another couple of shaves with this blade. Suffice to say, it reminds me a LOT of another blade now manufactured by Gillette in their Russian factory, a blade you'd not normally associate with being a platinum blade and one which shaves super-sharp from the off as it's most recognisable characteristic.