Multiple SE or a mutant half DE???? a safety razor you might not have know was coming..

the problem is, half the people who buy it will load up with feather blades split into halves, or load up with van der hagen/timor/merkur blades...
And if those who load it with poor blades have any sense, they will try different ones until they find one that suit their face, something you can't really do with many of the main stream cartridge razors such as the Fusion. That factor there is key to its success if you ask me. You need to educate that not all blades are the same, and all should be well for it.

It is a familiar (ish) design to most, so isn't going to scare them. It is apparently affordable (if you can call nearly $80 for the razor affordable) but requires a decent initial hit to start saving (although said savings will come quick and the handle will pay for itself in no time).

Could be one to watch :)
 
So this is what i'm thinking. With wet shaving proper those of us that only ever knew of the fixed angle of blades locked in to in cartridge had to re learn how to shave understanding the angle to come in at to get your bbs. And with every tool be it agressive or mild de,se or strainght they all have their own learning curve and everyones face having its own terrain you end up with own best angel. So there blades are locked in at a fixed angel like the cartridge style. And the blade they'll be using will be sharp as fook. So my prediction is with the science of hysteresis applied to the first blade pulling the hair up and the second cutting deeper and the third cutting even deeper you'll be loosing a fair bit of skin per shave, cos you'll have to press harder to get that close shave. And what do we know about pressing a de hard to ones skin? Yep razor burn like hell fire and bleeders and weepers and blood loads of blood lol
The way I read how the Leaf razor works is that the blades are actually staggered. The leading blade is more aggressive than the next, and so on. Which throws everything you just wrote out the window.
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I have no idea if it will work as well in practice as it does in theory, but it looks workable to me. I decided to back it, but will give it more thought and might back out before they bill me at the end of the fundraising.
 
I rather like the idea.
An adjustable.
With all of those postions and all of the different DE blades available, it is pretty fine-tunable.
Surely there will be something that suits most people.
(if it works like they say it does obviously)
Also cheap to run and you are not filling landfill with plastic cartridges.
I wonder how aggressive it gets.
 
If I'd seen this when I was looking to escape expensive cartridges, before discovering DE as the alternative, I'd have been very tempted. It does seem a bit pricey to attract people away from their cartridge systems. There's an obvious long term saving but it's a pricey gamble if it turns out to be crap.

I don't think it's really pitched at fanatical shavers like ourselves, it's an alternative cheaper option for the millions of cartridge users out there. Big market to tap into with the right product.

Good luck to them, it looks good on paper!


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The way I read how the Leaf razor works is that the blades are actually staggered. The leading blade is more aggressive than the next, and so on. Which throws everything you just wrote out the window.
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I have no idea if it will work as well in practice as it does in theory, but it looks workable to me. I decided to back it, but will give it more thought and might back out before they bill me at the end of the fundraising.
Interesting so if you apply a downward stroke with all 3 blades in the most aggressive hits first and then less then least. So I wonder what the last blade will actually do if anything in a 3 blade shave. But if you look at the actual images of the razor they just look layered like a cartridge. There is no lead or further exposure of the first blade. Hmmmmm
 
not to long ago, in the distant past of the 1950s? a man made a 5 blade DE razor with staggered blades. It did not get far past the patent stage as it was deemed "of no useful benefit to man when compared with any razor currently on the market in 1950"
 
not to long ago, in the distant past of the 1950s? a man made a 5 blade DE razor with staggered blades. It did not get far past the patent stage as it was deemed "of no useful benefit to man when compared with any razor currently on the market in 1950"
How tine's have changed, lets see what happens I guess
 
I would certainly love to borrow one for a few shaves just to see what it's all about but I don't think I would go out and buy one before I had used one, it seems a little like a cartridge razor with a pivoting head, interesting though! :cool: P.
 
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