Not been on the forum for a while but thought I would post.
For various reasons I have found myself with less and less free time and so the frequency of my shaves has died down a lot, after getting somewhat frustrated with my shaves due to the extra hair from shaving less frequently I decided to give the R41 a try.
After now using it I am kicking myself that I didn't do it sooner, I hadn't shaved for a while and had a full beard but this razor removed 90% of it in 1 pass!!!! Equally impressive is that due to the design of the razor all I had to do to remove the hairs from the razor was rinse it, no having to unscrew the razor head and no clogging of the razor.
I also found it a really easy razor to use which I don't usually find with open comb razors but this was really easy to find the right angle and when I finished there was no nicks, cuts or irritation, one thing I did find that seemed to be important for getting a good result is that this razor seems to work better with a thinner, slicker lather, I initially started the shave with a thicker lather and it felt a little rough so it added some more water to my brush and thinned the lather down and it worked like a charm.
Fairly sure I have the newer version with the reduced blade exposure but felt plenty aggressive, I had a look at the top caps for some of my other razors and I have an R89 top cap that is a good mm or two slimmer so I might try that next time for the extra blade exposure just to get a feel of what the old version was like.
I previously had a cheap Chinese Merkur clone that I used for those days when I had not shaved for a while that worked ok-ish but was a little rough, after using the R41 the Merkur clone went straight in the bin.
For various reasons I have found myself with less and less free time and so the frequency of my shaves has died down a lot, after getting somewhat frustrated with my shaves due to the extra hair from shaving less frequently I decided to give the R41 a try.
After now using it I am kicking myself that I didn't do it sooner, I hadn't shaved for a while and had a full beard but this razor removed 90% of it in 1 pass!!!! Equally impressive is that due to the design of the razor all I had to do to remove the hairs from the razor was rinse it, no having to unscrew the razor head and no clogging of the razor.
I also found it a really easy razor to use which I don't usually find with open comb razors but this was really easy to find the right angle and when I finished there was no nicks, cuts or irritation, one thing I did find that seemed to be important for getting a good result is that this razor seems to work better with a thinner, slicker lather, I initially started the shave with a thicker lather and it felt a little rough so it added some more water to my brush and thinned the lather down and it worked like a charm.
Fairly sure I have the newer version with the reduced blade exposure but felt plenty aggressive, I had a look at the top caps for some of my other razors and I have an R89 top cap that is a good mm or two slimmer so I might try that next time for the extra blade exposure just to get a feel of what the old version was like.
I previously had a cheap Chinese Merkur clone that I used for those days when I had not shaved for a while that worked ok-ish but was a little rough, after using the R41 the Merkur clone went straight in the bin.
