It must be to do with getting out of bed at daft o'clock this morning to let the carpenter in - but I've been enabled! A Inoue Fujita shave-ready kamisori with blue string wrapped handle will shortly be on it's way to me! Will it shave anything like a Weber? I so love my Webers!
Which side goes against my skin, please? Flat or ground? I figure flat but best to know before I start experimenting.
Aye - there's a difference between Japanese and Western grinds - and Japanese only shave one side (afaIk - I think Jamie said so.)
Now I don't want to get into any more arguments on this subject, but if using one side is traditional does anyone have any evidence - other than from western forums? Our good friend Mikael on this site suggested that the 'tradition' of just using the omote side may have applied just to barbers. That would certainly be easier when shaving someone else as you can move your position relative to the person being shaved.
However, trying to shave yourself using just the omote side requires a degree of contortion that I don't have - or shaving against the grain only in certain areas. I have a traditional kamisori and cannot work out how to shave against the grain i.e.upwards on the right hand side neck and face.
Jamie, do you use just the omote side when using a western kamisori?
Edit - and by western kamisori I mean traditional grind in western scales.
It's arrived! Thankfully - after I'd shaved today! Scary looking little bugger, eh? After a pain free stropping, I put it back in the box and put it somewhere safe. Do I have the balls to try it? No excuse not to really, binned a Kai from a Weber earlier so I need Oi vey! a new blade tomorrow - but a kamisori!!!? Oi vey!
Full marks to Tony at Japanese-razors.
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