I recently has the opportunity to play around with some 1930's carbon steel blades.
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When testing new blades I always use an early SS because they are so mild, and was astonished how well these blades improved the shave of an SS.
I have always found the early SS rather mild and ineffectual.
Noticing how thick these blades were, and remembering that the early SS's were introduced before the inception of the thin stainless steel blades we all now use I had something of a Eureka moment. :idea: (Yes - I was in the bath!)
Taking a discarded blade I ground down the edge with an electric knife sharpener and using this blade as a shim I loaded a Yellow Gillette and proceeded to enjoy the sort of shave this razor must have dispensed before the arrival of thin stainless steel.
I actually managed to nick myself in two places (with an SS - is it I whom you shit?) so used am I to treating the SS with cavalier distain.
Other than that it was a beautiful shave - I am still sitting here with an expression of imbecile rapture and stroking my face repeatedly - and feeling as smug as Schliemann must have felt when he discovered Troy!
So to restore your SS to it's former puissance - go shim yourself!
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When testing new blades I always use an early SS because they are so mild, and was astonished how well these blades improved the shave of an SS.
I have always found the early SS rather mild and ineffectual.
Noticing how thick these blades were, and remembering that the early SS's were introduced before the inception of the thin stainless steel blades we all now use I had something of a Eureka moment. :idea: (Yes - I was in the bath!)
Taking a discarded blade I ground down the edge with an electric knife sharpener and using this blade as a shim I loaded a Yellow Gillette and proceeded to enjoy the sort of shave this razor must have dispensed before the arrival of thin stainless steel.
I actually managed to nick myself in two places (with an SS - is it I whom you shit?) so used am I to treating the SS with cavalier distain.
Other than that it was a beautiful shave - I am still sitting here with an expression of imbecile rapture and stroking my face repeatedly - and feeling as smug as Schliemann must have felt when he discovered Troy!
So to restore your SS to it's former puissance - go shim yourself!