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I don’t know the model, but that’s a DE shavette. I much prefer Artist Club blades - which are longer, and much stiffer (and mrre expensive, also for the blades).
As for technique, you can look for our own Greg Gallant on youtube - or also Shave and Butcher, if you want a free dad joke with the shave.
There are possibly a few pararmeters here:
What kind of shavette do you have, and what blades does it take (artist club, half DE, other)?
What is your technique? Do you use both hands, or only one? You might want to toy around a bit.
Is your lather wet enough? DE razors are more forgiving than open blades.
As djundjila said, it will take time to get fully proficient.
As to result, I don’t find that shavettes have better or closer shaves (unless you need to get rid of weeks or months of growth), but they are more fun (for me).
Wednesday, October 2, 2024: Stratcona Wednesday
I am alternating Old Strathcona and Autumn Ash until OS is gone – I would assume I have 3 or 4 shaves left.
Have a good night!
Form and function ‘A’, glamour ‘C’.
It’s a German razor, after all 😁
Setting it from its head to its feet?
Edit: I see your photo shows the Marxist view
En rechtige Giel het n Hegel em Sack.
I am Arthur Schopenhauer, and I disapprove of this statement.
Pretty 😍
The Brain has always been my role model 😎
Monday, September 30, 2024: Autumn!
It’s getting cold, and heating is not yet to be found. Good shave, but Epsilon’s stank is difficult to get used to – definitely beyond Tabac’s stank.
Have a good night!
If you think r/wetshaving is in a lul, dying, or threatened by some other website with 9 monthly users, etc… get your head out of your ass.
Once we’ve taken over r/wetshaving, we’ll checks notes take over Badger and Blade, and finally -
we take over Wicked Edge
Great! I got your name and address, and will send it on Monday.
The word after ‘road’ in your address belongs to the city?
We shave all together with the same soap on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. Everybody proposes a soap, there is a vote, and the proposer rf the winning soap sends out smushes to everyone.
My soap won the vote for October. If you want to join, PM me your address, and I’ll send you the smush. You’re in the UK, if I remember correctly, so if I send the soap on Monday, it should arrive in time.
No financial commitment on your side, and I promise that I won’t out your identity.
BTW: You wanna join the Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club? October program is Narcisse by Le Père Lucien.
Ah - why didn’t I think of this!
First: Welcome back - it’s nice to see you here!
iCan you solve that for me?
This is an unsolvable problem, and the community that existed until last year on reddit doesn’t exist any more.
Realistically, r/wetshaving isn’t going away, nor is this place. On reddit, you’re the product, but here, you’re the boss (well, technically @walden@sub.wetshaving.social is the boss). And you can post on both places - that’s no crime.
And what @djundjila@wetshaving.social said.
Excellent explainer 👍