New Kickstarter razor - The SmartRazor

unlike "neil jagger", I use a DE every day. and I can do a two or even three pass shave in 6 minutes or less. today my shave took 5 minutes because I felt lazy and it was only a 2 pass shave. WITH THE GRAIN each time. and im feeling better, looking better, then I can with a cartridge.
brush was fully hydrated in hot tap water, razor and blade soaked as well. water was still nice and warm when I started shaving. shave was great. and trumpers violet is interesting

Shaving with cartridge razors, say fusion/mach 3/ schick qautro would take 20-30 minutes. mostly just trying to unclog the razor and trying not to scream in agony.

A poor workman always blames his tools...
 
@Bezoar I was talking to a guy down the pub today about my crossing over to DE shaving and he told me he can get 6 MONTHS use from ome Fusion blade.. errr OOUUUUUCCCCCCHH!

sounds like a co worker of mine. he shaves once a month, first with a detail beard trimmer to get the stubble down to nearly nothing then uses a cartridge to finish it off. I think he uses a new cartridge every shave. does that count as making a cartridge last a month?

With the old 2 blade sensor excel style cartridge, you had just enough room to stick a plastic tooth pick in between the blades to try to get gunk out and get another pass in with it. When I remember those days I really wish I had had the chance to use my grand fathers DE razor out.

But the newer stuff like quatro and fusion,, cant be cleaned at all. I think its engineered obsolescence at its worst.
 
Well before i got a DE I had actually progressed downwards to disposable supermarket own branded disposables. You could clean those and they did not provide a bad shave.
 
MOST of the American store brand razors are based on the old 2 or 3 blade patents from the early 90s so they had SOME chance at being better then the fusion and mach 3.

The only possible way of getting me to buy, let alone use a cartridge razor again would be if Kate Upton would come over, strip down, and shave my face with it. MAYBE JUST ...
 
the cartridge wagon is pure profit. sell a super cheap product that doesn't last long, and make 3 dollars in profit per head.

the average consumer is um well, not very bright.

Sorry man but you are talking out of your bum. I can get at least a month out of a cartridge with jeans stropping and using good artisan soap so this don't make sense like. You gotta be bright to get your cash from a cartridge but yer can. Most guys I know manage to get good long use out of a cartridge.
 
Sorry man but you are talking out of your bum. I can get at least a month out of a cartridge with jeans stropping and using good artisan soap so this don't make sense like. You gotta be bright to get your cash from a cartridge but yer can. Most guys I know manage to get good long use out of a cartridge.

Granted I mostly use either Wilkinson Protector or the old Atra two-blade carts and I'd say I get probably 15 uses out of a cart so yeah, not too bad.
 
when I was 13 I could get a month out of a sensor 2 blade cartridge. But I was sticking a tooth pick in to push crud out. I was even able to get good shaves using glycerin hand soap with that sensor 2 blade cartridge. It was a good design.
But with the modern 3,4,5, and even 6 blade things, and with my adult facial hair, I am lucky to get 4 passes out of one of these cartridges. and that's shaving every day, and often using a beard trimmer with the guard removed to do a quick buzz cut on my face.
The last week I used a cartridge razor was last year in april or june. I used a shick quatro. 3 days of stubble so I buzz cut my face with the beard trimmer. Then I proceeded to shave with the schick cartridge razor. I needed to use 2 separate cartridge heads to complete a 3 pass shave. I had an interview in town that afternoon, so when I was at a bigger store I found a van der hagen razor and purchased it.

Even with the best soap from Italy or England, I wouldn't even think of trying even the 2 blade cartridges. Its enough to make me want to cry when I think that I could have enjoyed nice happy shaving since I started shaving at 13 if my mother had only let me use my grand fathers double edge razor.
 
@Bezoar you must have stubble like wire wool mate but if that is your experience then it's your experience. I get good clean shaves out of a Quattro. Oh and you must have had your balls drop early if you was shaving at 13. I did not touch me face until I was 17 or 18. You would probably have cut yourself to buggery wiv a DE at 13 tho.
 
Be it cartridge , SE , straight, DE they are all razors and we can choose which one suits us best on any particular day, this is a shaving fourm not a razor fourm, no matter what you use you are still shaving so let's be happy for one another if we use what we like to shave with.....but no canned foam!!! :)
 
Well "Ahhm Sorreh Monkeh" but I gotta love Nivea Sensitive Cooling Shaving Gel ;) But give me mah fellow furry Darron the Fox's soap all day over even tho I love it!
You use what you want Hoss, I really think everybody should use what they get along with, and includes the soap they use, I was joking about the canned stuff....really, we live in a country where we have the fredom of choice which is a fantastic thing, I use what I want and would not want ENYONE telling me otherwise, so it would be crass of me to say anything about what anybody else wants to use. Shave happy. :)
 
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