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Yes, I'm sorry I misread your comment but I'm surprised that you find your Souplex to be anything other than mild, that is how I find mine anyway but we all have different skin's so I won't press the point. P.That was my point, the bakelites I've tried have all been on the aggressive side of efficient. Possibly to make up for the lack of weight
I have never thought shaving was too complicated,...until I read this thread.
Unfortunately, I'm too thick to work out if one of the posters suffers from OCD or is on a wind-up.
I'm playing a straight bat to this one.
Your loss.Ha! You 're right. I found it in Amazon. Only in this colour though. I think it's one ugly razor, but at that colour, i wouldn't use it even if you paid me.
I don't find the Souplex Minor mild, smooth yes but not mild.Yes, I'm sorry I misread your comment but I'm surprised that you find your Souplex to be anything other than mild, that is how I find mine anyway but we all have different skin's so I won't press the point. P.
Your loss.
I've just used mine - in "that colour" - what a corker. Even better than I remembered...
Wherever you want it to.And where does this end?
I suppose it would also depend on the blade used but I found it effectively mild unlike my other Bakelite razor of unknown origin which is just savage no matter what blade I've tried although I've not tried a Derby yet, maybe tomorrow's shave.I don't find the Souplex Minor mild, smooth yes but not mild.
Mild I would equate with the Feather Popular or EJ DE89, but as you say we're all different.
Wherever you want it to.
in the era of internet sales, i find it ironic, that someone in Romania has a shop selling them, while i have to address the factory in my own country to get one...
There may be different models of the Minor, I've seen a Souplex OC on here that doesn't take standard handles whereas mine does.I suppose it would also depend on the blade used but I found it effectively mild unlike my other Bakelite razor of unknown origin which is just savage no matter what blade I've tried although I've not tried a Derby yet, maybe tomorrow's shave.P.
Ours are the same from what I can make out from the pic you posted.There may be different models of the Minor, I've seen a Souplex OC on here that doesn't take standard handles whereas mine does.
I can't get on with Derbys they give me a rash.
It all adds to the mystique
I feel bad for you, I can go into town (6 miles away) and there are two “gentleman's outfitters†who both sell a good selection soaps, aftershaves and brushes from TOBS, Trumpers and Kent... Only problem is I don't like anything from those brands
Thanks. That's why i bought the Baili. I have found a B&B thread with comparing photos and the heads seem identical. However, the shave i get from the Baili Tech clone, is considerably rougher. Maybe because i am used to the angle of Weishi and DE89, which i find very similar, maybe because the Tech heads hold the blade more rigidly and my technique hasn't evolved with such, maybe because it bends the blade more and the blade ends up with different "angle of attack".
But although i got BBS, my face was feeling much rougher after the shave. So, i have abbandoned plans for such razors. The Weish and the DE89 work both very well on my face, and i find i don't have any adjustment need while i swap between them. The transition from one to another seems very natural. With the Baili Tech, not so. And maybe this is why the shaves felt rough. But, why confuse myself with learning 2 different techniques at this point...
Fair enough, I'm not familiar with the Baili so I looked it up and it does look much like a Tech.
The DE89 is a great razor, I just wish it was brass instead of pot-metal.
As I didn't identify the poster in question, you assumed I was referring to you.Unfortunately, i know enough to be able to say, that i have obsessive traits. What is commonly known as "OCD" by those who don't know what OCD really is. The psyche of all people, is composed of a mix of neurotic traits. They are like different forces fighting each other, pointing to different directions. When one such force is so powerful, as to dominate the others and to drag psyche to its direction, it then become "neurosis". Fortunately, most people are unaware that they all also have neurotic traits and are only able to see them in others, because they are weird to them, being their own the "normality". For example, a housewife that likes order, irons the clothes, bends them neatly and puts them in the shelf and pats them down to look tidy, has likely obsessive traits. For a housewife that keeps her house like a bombarded field, the first one has OCD, while she is normal. It becomes OCD, when it becomes a standard, repetitive, ritualistic behaviour, where the individual finds comfort in doing it, even for no apparent reason.
Or, to put it with an easy television example. You have present the meticulous detective doing CSI work, looking at the last place someone would look and finding a clue? If you have obsessive traits, you will excel in that job, because you pay attention to things that others may not. Fast forward to the detective "Mr. Monk". That's OCD. Because it's obsessive trait gone "rogue" (aka neurosis).
As I didn't identify the poster in question, you assumed I was referring to you.
That is at best, a case of self-diagnosis, and at worst, exhibiting paranoia
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