Edwin Jagger 3ONE6

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Hi,

I am new in this forum, and wetshaver about 2 year. For ½ year ago I purshased Edwin Jagger 3ONE6, because it looks great and made in Stainless Steel. My daily driver is Rockwell 6C plate 3.
I can`t use 3ONE6 as daily driver, as it is agressive. I have tried with different blades and angels with no luck :(. Before I am selling it, I would like to hear your suggestions about my bad experience with 3ONE6.

Thanks
 
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Hi and welcome to TSR!

I'm a big fan of the 3one6 but it's one of those razors people love or hate. If you've been wet shaving for 2 years already, you probably have a pretty reasonable technique. The 3one6 is certainly more assertive than the 6C R3 and it may just be that the razor is not for you.

If you want a stainless steel razor, it sounds like the Rockwell 6S could be the right choice for you.
 
Seems to be a marmite razor. Didn't exactly take the wet shaving world by storm although some love them.
I found it very efficient but more efficient than I need for regular use.
The head is up there with Feather AS-D2 quality.
 
What an apt definition! I've found that is the same case with MÜHLE Rocca (albeit the latter is considered much milder).

Yeah hats of to EJ for developing something new after so many years but...It soon became clear the die hard DE89 fans would have been happy with a SS 1:1 copy of the DE89. EJ missed a trick there. Maybe they will do that next. The 3ONE6 is not a bad razor, it just didn't quite catch on. I suspect the choice of handle was a contributing factor as well.
 
Welcome to TSR.
I can`t use 3ONE6 as daily driver, as it is agressive. I have tried with different blades and angels with no luck :(. Before I am selling it, I would like to hear your suggestions about my bad experience with 3ONE6.
I don't use an EJ 3ONE6 but do know it has neutral blade exposure and a large blade gap. You can reduce some of the razor's perceived aggressiveness by pressing less and tilting the handle further from the face. Try a few shaves with a shallow blade angle; some call it riding the cap.
This will illustrate the difference of blade gap between the DE89 and 3ONE6.
I am surprised the 3ONE6 has not got a lot of traction in the market, perhaps the expectation was it would be just like a stainless steel version of the DE89.
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...I am surprised the 3ONE6 has not got a lot of traction in the market, perhaps the expectation was it would be just like a stainless steel version of the DE89...

I think that Edwin Jagger tried to cash in on the überexpensive artisan razor market and for whatever reason it appears to have fallen flat. I don't fault Jagger as they are only trying to run a business. The problem is that the actual market for these type razors is beyond fickle. Some of these guys seem as if they iron their underwear. At any rate, they use way too much starch and all in the name of the most misused word in all of shavedom: efficiency. Not one can scientifically quantify it, but like fabled Conquistadores of history they march relentlessly onward in their quest for the golden razor of El Dorado!!!

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Velkommen til TSR.

Jeg bruger ikke en EJ 3ONE6, men ved, at den har neutral kniveksponering og et stort klingespalte. Du kan reducere nogle af barbermaskinens opfattede aggressivitet ved at trykke mindre og vippe håndtaget længere væk fra ansigtet. Prøv et par barberinger med en lav vinkel på bladene; nogle kalder det at køre på hætten.
Dette illustrerer forskellen i klingeafstand mellem DE89 og 3ONE6.
Jeg er overrasket over, at 3ONE6 ikke har en masse trækkraft i markedet, måske forventningen var, at det ville være ligesom en version af rustfrit stål af DE89.
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Thanks Invicta, I will try to shave with your suggestions :)
 
I've got two of these; one with the aluminium handle in a fetching blue, and the other the all-stainless model. I find them extremely easy to get on with, but I quite like razors with some bite or whatever it's described as these days.

I was really pleased to see Jagger get into this market, albeit with a MIM razor (which a lot are nowadays anyway e.g. Rockwell), and, to my mind, it's a very good razor at an affordable price.

It works best for me the further off parallel it is, otherwise it gets a bit too much like the Blackland Dart (which lives up to its name by sticking itself into you if you stray too far from the "vertical to face" approach). It does require me to concentrate a bit when I go down from jawline to throat area.
 
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