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Following on from this topic which has gone wildly off, but the original post was resolved anyway ... what if we could use DE blades in our SEs.
Stephen had a go and rather thought he'd wasted his time ... and blade.
I have a lot of blades and a lot of time
So, using a GEM SE blade as a template, I snipped the sides off a DE blade and a bit off the back. I guess I could have spined it with a spare, but didn't have a spare and did not want to butcher an innocent GEM.
Inserted into a 1912 ...
... fits okay and the hooks have sufficient hold to keep it in place as well as the back restraint just taking up sufficient slack without bending the blade.
... unlike the Micromatic:
What's going on here? Ah, the indents in the base plate:
What about a Featherweight?
... again, fits, but the hooks have less of a hold than the 1912s.
Does it shave?
Yes! VERY aggressively. I tested on my leg, which has a couple of nicks ... and it is burning like hell!
I think it is like the most aggressive open comb you could imagine!
From here, I guess the concept is viable. Using a blunt GEM, the edge could be ground back, say 0.5mm, the spine just lifted a tiny fraction to accept a cut down DE blade, the old blade simply acting as a frame.
Practice is quite another thing ... I'm not going to try this on my face.
Stephen had a go and rather thought he'd wasted his time ... and blade.
I have a lot of blades and a lot of time
So, using a GEM SE blade as a template, I snipped the sides off a DE blade and a bit off the back. I guess I could have spined it with a spare, but didn't have a spare and did not want to butcher an innocent GEM.
Inserted into a 1912 ...
... fits okay and the hooks have sufficient hold to keep it in place as well as the back restraint just taking up sufficient slack without bending the blade.
... unlike the Micromatic:
What's going on here? Ah, the indents in the base plate:
What about a Featherweight?
... again, fits, but the hooks have less of a hold than the 1912s.
Does it shave?
Yes! VERY aggressively. I tested on my leg, which has a couple of nicks ... and it is burning like hell!
I think it is like the most aggressive open comb you could imagine!
From here, I guess the concept is viable. Using a blunt GEM, the edge could be ground back, say 0.5mm, the spine just lifted a tiny fraction to accept a cut down DE blade, the old blade simply acting as a frame.
Practice is quite another thing ... I'm not going to try this on my face.