My first experience with the Super-Max was decent - it was sharp, fairly smooth, and delivered a good shave in my Rockwell 6S. What little trouble I had with it was more about my own technique than the quality of the blade, truth be told. Today I gave it another try and I think I'm …
I've enjoyed the use I've gotten out of the iKon X2 Slant razor head I bought a few months ago. Not all blades work that well in it, as I discovered through some experimenting, but I can get a great shave out of it if I use the right hardware with it. I also found …
I had a blade sampler several months ago that I went through, and I made several posts here reviewing the various blades. I forgot I still had one left in that sampler pack, so I threw it in my Rockwell 6S today to give it a shot. I also finally got my hands on a …
A week ago or so I wrote a post in which I was disappointed in the against-the-grain performance of the Gillette Rubie Plus blade. The blade performed well in my WTG and XTG passes, but tore my face up on that third pass, which made me less than impressed with it. However, since I only had one …
I have a J.R. Torrey straight razor that's likely about a hundred years old. While it was professionally honed by someone who really knows what he's doing (not me), keeping it sharp via stropping is still on me, as is using good technique. The Shave I started out by stropping this vintage straight 30 or …
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