Day eight with the OneBlade
I did five passes again, as I wanted to push the blade. Again a tiny bit of tugging ATG under the nose, but no worse than yesterday. I think I could get more shaves out of the blade, but I don't want to hog the razor for weeks
One more thing I noticed during the last couple of shaves: I find it difficult to use the OneBlade to shave in the most inaccessible of all places: the area closest to (almost inside) the nostrils. Because of the way the blade sits in the head it doesn't extend all the way to the edge of the head. That means you would have to stick the edge of head right up your nostril to shave close to it. Awkward, and even then you can't reach all the bristles. After a couple of days this was now getting quite noticeable and I had to do a little cleanup operation with a Schick injector. Hmmm..
So far the GEM blade has done 35 passes and is still better than the Feather after 6.
Let's do the maths. The Feather is good for just a single shave, the de-spined GEM is good for (at least) six. At Connaught's you pay £86.40 for 240 Feather blades. Thats 36p per blade. 200 GEM blades are £24, (that's) 12p per blade. Based on the six shaves I have done with the GEM blade, a shave with the GEM costs 2p in blades, while shaving with Feather blades costs 36p per shave. So why not use a better blade at less than 6% of the cost per shave?
OneBlade have missed a trick here. I'm sure the head would only need minor modifications to take GEM blades with the spine still on.
I'll use a fresh GEM blade tomorrow to compare it with the one that had 6 full on shaves. After that I'll pass the OneBlade on.
Oh, yes - in case anyone wondered - great shave again.
- Shower
- Lucky Tiger Lemon Cream facial cleanser
- removed with a hot towel
- Truefitt & Hill Lavender shaving cream
- face lathered with Omega 49 boar brush
- Five passes WTG/XTG/XTG/ATG/ATG with OneBlade and de-spined GEM blade (6)
- Tüff Sensitiv ASL
- Paco Rabanne Pour Home EdT
I did five passes again, as I wanted to push the blade. Again a tiny bit of tugging ATG under the nose, but no worse than yesterday. I think I could get more shaves out of the blade, but I don't want to hog the razor for weeks
One more thing I noticed during the last couple of shaves: I find it difficult to use the OneBlade to shave in the most inaccessible of all places: the area closest to (almost inside) the nostrils. Because of the way the blade sits in the head it doesn't extend all the way to the edge of the head. That means you would have to stick the edge of head right up your nostril to shave close to it. Awkward, and even then you can't reach all the bristles. After a couple of days this was now getting quite noticeable and I had to do a little cleanup operation with a Schick injector. Hmmm..
So far the GEM blade has done 35 passes and is still better than the Feather after 6.
Let's do the maths. The Feather is good for just a single shave, the de-spined GEM is good for (at least) six. At Connaught's you pay £86.40 for 240 Feather blades. Thats 36p per blade. 200 GEM blades are £24, (that's) 12p per blade. Based on the six shaves I have done with the GEM blade, a shave with the GEM costs 2p in blades, while shaving with Feather blades costs 36p per shave. So why not use a better blade at less than 6% of the cost per shave?
OneBlade have missed a trick here. I'm sure the head would only need minor modifications to take GEM blades with the spine still on.
I'll use a fresh GEM blade tomorrow to compare it with the one that had 6 full on shaves. After that I'll pass the OneBlade on.
Oh, yes - in case anyone wondered - great shave again.