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Praise be to the Sun Ray!
Praise be to the Sun Ray!
Thanks!That's gorgeous
Minted sir iam awaiting one arriving from the us I went for the super knurl handleView attachment 79020View attachment 79021My AC razor journey delves deeper today as my Hawk v3 A arrived today, many thank @jphelan81 its in great nick! The handle looks amazing and may be my joint favourite visually with my blackbird. Many thanks for the blades as well.
Another visit to @Boycie83’s Emporium arrived while I was away this weekend and I had a great shave this morning with the OSP Herb Garden and tomorrow will be trying P&B Star Noir! Again thanks for the blades, between you both I’m set up for a few
months use at least!
It’s arrival and the Excalibur’s does herald an end to my time with the Karve. It was probably my first bit of higher end kit and though it’s amazingly well built, and looks great it’s not as natural a fit with me as my other acquisitions of late so it’s out of the den and hopefully to a new home!
One shave in and I love it! I wouldn’t say it was aggressive though, mid at best and this is only my second day shaving with a AC razor.Minted sir iam awaiting one arriving from the us I went for the super knurl handle
Yeah looking forward to using it italian barber had a sale on also picked the other A plate up and some blades for it all the reviews I have seen seem goodOne shave in and I love it! I wouldn’t say it was aggressive though, mid at best and this is only my second day shaving with a AC razor.
Likewise, if it was the only plate I had tried there's no way I'd call it aggressive. Here's interesting, though ... I have the regular plate as well and to my face, that one feels to be the more aggressive. I like to think "A" means "alternative".One shave in and I love it! I wouldn’t say it was aggressive though, mid at best and this is only my second day shaving with a AC razor.
I hope you didn't rotate the spring, you can't on that model without weakening it, that's why it was locked at the top.I am NOT starting another rabbit hole!
This arrived and has been cleaned up. All research that I've now done tells me it's a Canadian E3.
I'm glad I didn't see the advice not to clean it like I have until afterwards, as the amount of crap and crud on its inside was immense.
Despite this, I think it has come up really well and couldn't feel any blade chatter when I tried to nudge it by hand after clipping it back up together and inserting a new blade.
The bakelite case also looks pretty good, but the new Schick blades I got don't quite fit in the case.
It should be appearing in the SoTD soon, but I'll have to really take my time as I'm a little unsure how aggressive they are.
I'm also waiting for the Parker injector from Connaught to arrive, so we will have to see where they fit into my current waiting list to appear.
@TobyC I did, but thankfully it doesn't seem to have had too much negative impact, it performed well this morning.I hope you didn't rotate the
Believe me I fully understand wanting to thoroughly clean a used razor, and I think the original intent of that design was to rotate to open for cleaning. They must have had too many returns from ham fisted guys bending the spring so they locked it in place.@TobyC I did, but thankfully it doesn't seem to have had too much negative impact, it performed well this morning.
As I said it was absolutely minging, so would have needed a sonic bath or similar. Thankfully I have electronics tools so didn't hack at it with big screwdrivers.
I shall refrain from doing it again!
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