Thursday 11th November
Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
Palmolive Shaving Stick (Grated)
Omega Professional w/Blonde Boar 28mm
MARS Razor w/Number 6 Plate
Treet Platinum (2) SE
Gillette Cool Wave Aftershave Lotion
Quick recap: the MARS razor comes with 10 plates of varying gap, delivering a fully customisable shave. So far, I have used two blades, the first the Lord Classic with plates 3 & 5 and second, the Treet Platinum on plates 4 & 6. I started in the middle with plate 5, dropped to 4, then 3 and tonight stepped it up to 6.
Cor! That was indeed a good shave ...
I'll begin by saying that I hold the Treet Platinum as my favourite double edge blade, hands down. Now, either the MARS is blade dependent or more likely I've just got better at setting the blade and nipping it up because tonight's shave on 6 was a lot nicer than the other day's shave on 5. It's capable! It is very capable, and I got a very sound single pass shave off it whereas I made two passes with 5, 4 & 3.
Moreover, it felt a lot less threatening; plate 5 did give me a sensation that it was going to bite. Just that one step up and a self-confessed heavy-handed shaver like me could engage with the razor with a light touch and maintain that throughout the shave. WIth 5, I did catch myself pressing progressively harder and certainly with plates 3 & 4, where I had to very consciously prevent myself from doing so, although with the mildness of the shave (particularly 3) it rather didn't matter.
So yes, I'm finding quite a difference between the plates, certainly from say 3 to 6 which is my spread to far. I'm not that keen on trying 2 or 1, but no doubt will in due course but my next strategy is to run another Treet (the Classic, so a carbon blade) through starting on 5 and then jumping to 7. I hope this will tell me a lot as I'm starting out from the same place (plate 5) but finishing just a little higher than the shave I particularly enjoyed today.
That said, tomorrow I think I'll take a reset with a simple, known-good shave with my Muhle Rocca and a Personna Comfort Coated and then continue with the MARS ...