- Joined
- Saturday January 15, 2011
- Location
- Norfolk, England
cruciate said:Well, I kinda decided to go with a progress, but they are out of stock everywhere I initially looked. So I looked at the futur instead and same story.
The Merkur slants were out of stock too and I could only find the weber via the US amazon store.....and they are out of stock.
So I guess I have a little longer to make a decision while we wait for the world razor shortage to end.
Bechet45 said:As you don't have 7 O'clock green (!!!!!!) try your Bolzano, which is similar.
cruciate said:Ah ha!! The futur!
For some reason I'm struggling to understand, I grabbed the worst blade I used in the EJ to try in the futur.
I grabbed a boots branded persona and set about shaving.
I've had 2 shaves with this blade now. The 1st was truly amazing.
2nd shave I think I got my lather wrong (bluebeards) because the shave was smooth, but the futur kept almost sticking to the skin. Not snagging as I understand it, more like running your finger over a wet surface and hitting a drier patch. Hard to explain. But this has only happened once.
All in all, I love the weight, I love the noise, I can't wait to try other favourite blades. Shave quality wise, I get a better 2 pass shave than the EJ, but against the grain I am so far preferring the EJ. But that's with a blade I normally don't like. Against the grain with that blade in the EJ was pretty crap too!
Lastly, any thoughts in which blade to try next?
cruciate said:Have I just been told off for not having green gillettes?
I hadn't considered green gillettes. I thought yellows were the bestest ones
Bechet45 said:cruciate said:Have I just been told off for not having green gillettes?
I hadn't considered green gillettes. I thought yellows were the bestest ones
The punishment for not having greens is not being able to shave with them!
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