- Joined
- Tuesday May 1, 2012
- Location
- West Norfolk. UK
Greetings
Would there be any interest/appetite in a pass around Merkur Futur? This razor was my introduction to traditional wet shaving many years ago and I think (you may disagree) that I could not have choose a worse razor to start DE shaving with, especially as I used it exclusively with Merkur blades for about five years!
Stop laughing you p**s taking buggers! If you are not a member of, or read any shaving forums and are naive enough to believe the adverts on a vendors site that this razor is the last word in shaving and to get the best from it you should always use Merkur blades why should you believe any different? Well at least I didn't!
Anyway this razor is laying unloved and neglected in the back of my razor drawer, I feel it is a harsh and unforgiving shaver but thousands of others disagree and love it.
This razor is special, inside the Futur is a little stop that cannot be seem from the outside that prevents the razor from being adjusted beyond the No. 6 setting. On this razor it is broken off (my heavy handedness) it affects nothing other than this razor can be adjusted eight full turns to a setting of 48 at which point the head falls off the handle! At about setting forty the blade gap is big enough to fit your whole bottom lip in, albeit the blade does waggle about quite a bit!
The razor is a heavy old devil, on my kitchen digital scales it weighs 126 grams.
If there is any interest let me say from the outset that I would only want anybody to post it by the very cheapest means possible and if it goes AWOL in the mail I am quite prepared to take it on the chin and will not lose one wink of sleep. I really cannot see me using it ever again. If it will fit in that small post office test gap (I am unable to recall the size) you can post it for the price of a stamp but as it is not a three piece razor I doubt this is possible.
Regards
Dick
Would there be any interest/appetite in a pass around Merkur Futur? This razor was my introduction to traditional wet shaving many years ago and I think (you may disagree) that I could not have choose a worse razor to start DE shaving with, especially as I used it exclusively with Merkur blades for about five years!
Stop laughing you p**s taking buggers! If you are not a member of, or read any shaving forums and are naive enough to believe the adverts on a vendors site that this razor is the last word in shaving and to get the best from it you should always use Merkur blades why should you believe any different? Well at least I didn't!
Anyway this razor is laying unloved and neglected in the back of my razor drawer, I feel it is a harsh and unforgiving shaver but thousands of others disagree and love it.
This razor is special, inside the Futur is a little stop that cannot be seem from the outside that prevents the razor from being adjusted beyond the No. 6 setting. On this razor it is broken off (my heavy handedness) it affects nothing other than this razor can be adjusted eight full turns to a setting of 48 at which point the head falls off the handle! At about setting forty the blade gap is big enough to fit your whole bottom lip in, albeit the blade does waggle about quite a bit!
The razor is a heavy old devil, on my kitchen digital scales it weighs 126 grams.
If there is any interest let me say from the outset that I would only want anybody to post it by the very cheapest means possible and if it goes AWOL in the mail I am quite prepared to take it on the chin and will not lose one wink of sleep. I really cannot see me using it ever again. If it will fit in that small post office test gap (I am unable to recall the size) you can post it for the price of a stamp but as it is not a three piece razor I doubt this is possible.
Regards
Dick