Sorry for the lack of pictures as evidence, but I just couldn't wait to post some impressions and get your expert feedback. After just 6 months of hitting the order site when they were out-of-stock, I finally got 'lucky' and the shipment came in today.
My first impression was how the the finish of the head did not match the handle. Head is a flat grey, the handle all super shiny. The 3-D or sculptural aesthetic didn't match either--the head is simply too crude in a nuts-and-bolts manner. In the end these aren't the most important things, but certainly not the most difficult to get right.
Now, on to performance. Imagine writing with a quarter-pound fountain pen. Now imagine the shaving equivalent. In the spirit of YMMV, I can appreciate that an NFL linebacker would feel at ease with a face-scraping tool like this, but for a regular guy what is the purpose? Just fondling the razor out of the box is certainly fantastic--and I normaly love when my toys are very heavy--but this is a precision tool to be applied to one's face. The whole shave was a nervous guessing game with pressure being mostly impossible to establish. One thing that became clear very quickly was that this was a rather mild head. Well, either that or I am the Michael Phleps of shaving technique. Brand new feather blade and a nick-free shave, though nowhere near as close as what a Rocket HD will deliver for me and also quite a distance behind the EJ89.
I'm up for round 2 tomorrow, but right now it looks like this one is headed for display case, sale or a far more sensible handle (to Cooncat Bob up in heaven: this is yet another example of how much you are missed back here).
My first impression was how the the finish of the head did not match the handle. Head is a flat grey, the handle all super shiny. The 3-D or sculptural aesthetic didn't match either--the head is simply too crude in a nuts-and-bolts manner. In the end these aren't the most important things, but certainly not the most difficult to get right.
Now, on to performance. Imagine writing with a quarter-pound fountain pen. Now imagine the shaving equivalent. In the spirit of YMMV, I can appreciate that an NFL linebacker would feel at ease with a face-scraping tool like this, but for a regular guy what is the purpose? Just fondling the razor out of the box is certainly fantastic--and I normaly love when my toys are very heavy--but this is a precision tool to be applied to one's face. The whole shave was a nervous guessing game with pressure being mostly impossible to establish. One thing that became clear very quickly was that this was a rather mild head. Well, either that or I am the Michael Phleps of shaving technique. Brand new feather blade and a nick-free shave, though nowhere near as close as what a Rocket HD will deliver for me and also quite a distance behind the EJ89.
I'm up for round 2 tomorrow, but right now it looks like this one is headed for display case, sale or a far more sensible handle (to Cooncat Bob up in heaven: this is yet another example of how much you are missed back here).