- Joined
- Thursday September 26, 2013
- Location
- Halifax, Republic of Yorkshire
Sunday 5th June
Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
Boots Albany Mentholated (Vintage) Shaving Bowl
Razorock 400 Butterscotch w/Plissoft Noir Synthetic 24mm
Wilkinson Sword Sticky & Super Glide Platinum
Pinaud Lilac Vegetal (Vintage)
Impressed!
I'll be more impressed if you can find anything at all written about this brand of blade, which I found a straight-up 8.5ish out of 10. Sharp (enough) and certainly very smooth, like Personna Platinum Chrome kinda smooth (no, really) ... and I'm struggling to figure out where the heck it's come from. There is no hint on the packaging whose only other words are "Fusion with Smooth" on the front, something about "High Technology Swedish" and the very professional sevenstar@hotmail.com and the even classier sevenstar1@outlook.com on the back.
Any initial scratchiness was completely gone after a stroke or two on each side, absolutely revealing a blade that is right up there with Personna Platinum Chrome or the Super Shave X for smoothness. I literally could not feel the blade. There was no disappointing lack of bite, which it has sufficient but not to a degree that I would say sharp, but reiterate sharp (enough).
It does have a sub-continent feel to it in the packaging and I still struggle to figure out just where it's come from even with that in mind. I think there was some musing that Treet had something to do with it and it does have a very similar feel (again ... no, really) to the Treet Platinum, but it's not. Thinking across to Bangladesh, maybe it's a prototype of the Sharp line from Samah and I'm finding a lot of similarities there, but it is most like the Dollar Platinum, which we know is from SuperMax. Why they'd off-brand for a simple startup with nothing more than a hotmail account, I don't know.
Still, impressed!
Buy again ... unlikely, as the platinum from SuperMax most definitely pips it on class; the Sharp brand pips it on sharpness for simiar smoothness and the Treet Platinum way outclasses it ... all blades very available and cheap. But, if I was stranded with a pack of these I would certainly enjoy my shaves while it lasted.
Oh, and gosh! That Albany soap is sublime ... as is a splash of vintage Veg, sweeter and less surgical spirit than the current market offering.
Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
Boots Albany Mentholated (Vintage) Shaving Bowl
Razorock 400 Butterscotch w/Plissoft Noir Synthetic 24mm
Wilkinson Sword Sticky & Super Glide Platinum
Pinaud Lilac Vegetal (Vintage)
Impressed!
I'll be more impressed if you can find anything at all written about this brand of blade, which I found a straight-up 8.5ish out of 10. Sharp (enough) and certainly very smooth, like Personna Platinum Chrome kinda smooth (no, really) ... and I'm struggling to figure out where the heck it's come from. There is no hint on the packaging whose only other words are "Fusion with Smooth" on the front, something about "High Technology Swedish" and the very professional sevenstar@hotmail.com and the even classier sevenstar1@outlook.com on the back.
Any initial scratchiness was completely gone after a stroke or two on each side, absolutely revealing a blade that is right up there with Personna Platinum Chrome or the Super Shave X for smoothness. I literally could not feel the blade. There was no disappointing lack of bite, which it has sufficient but not to a degree that I would say sharp, but reiterate sharp (enough).
It does have a sub-continent feel to it in the packaging and I still struggle to figure out just where it's come from even with that in mind. I think there was some musing that Treet had something to do with it and it does have a very similar feel (again ... no, really) to the Treet Platinum, but it's not. Thinking across to Bangladesh, maybe it's a prototype of the Sharp line from Samah and I'm finding a lot of similarities there, but it is most like the Dollar Platinum, which we know is from SuperMax. Why they'd off-brand for a simple startup with nothing more than a hotmail account, I don't know.
Still, impressed!
Buy again ... unlikely, as the platinum from SuperMax most definitely pips it on class; the Sharp brand pips it on sharpness for simiar smoothness and the Treet Platinum way outclasses it ... all blades very available and cheap. But, if I was stranded with a pack of these I would certainly enjoy my shaves while it lasted.
Oh, and gosh! That Albany soap is sublime ... as is a splash of vintage Veg, sweeter and less surgical spirit than the current market offering.
