Make cartridges last years, not days!

[rajagra]

This man has made one cart last 30 months and counting!

You have to admit he does look clean shaven.

5ADaRIqy0Dc

He hasn't updated for 2 months. I hope nothing bad has happened.:eek:

[Slash McCoy]

Is he the same guy with the 100MPG carburetor? Oh, O forgot... we don't have carburetors anymore...

[Absolute Mustard]

His super dry skin could hone a straight razor :lol:

[ouch]

Well, we can all quit now. :001_rolle

[njpaddy]

My last Sensor cart has lasted over 14 months and still looks brand new. It's been used once in that time and sits buried in a drawer somewhere.

[GDCarrington]

Well, we can all quit now. :001_rolle

This thread may move to the CH because we all need a good laugh! :laugh:

To the video, I would say that this guy needs to work harder at his day job, if he has one, and stop trying to use metaphysics to realign the molecular structure of his razor! :lol:

[CharlieTN]

I call garbage. I make knives and strop every single one of them. If you only strop on one side you will wind up with a large bur curving to the other side which will not give you a sharp edge. No way around it, at all.

In addition, the human skin is extremely soft compared to a properly prepared strop with compound.

Nope, not believing it for anyting. Probably a case of someone who has an extremely easy beard to shave and a not so sensitive face.

Charlie

[HoosierTrooper]

Hey, it's on the interwebs so it must be true.

[DustMite]

Well golly. I've got some Trac II carts that have lasted 15 years or more now.
The fact that they are sitting in my closet, unused, has nothing to do with it.
What matters is I have made them last for years. :jump:

[davegt666]

Well golly. I've got some Trac II carts that have lasted 15 years or more now.
The fact that they are sitting in my closet, unused, has nothing to do with it.
What matters is I have made them last for years. :jump:

Are you serious?! Share your secret! Please!:smartass:

[michiganlover]

I call garbage. I make knives and strop every single one of them. If you only strop on one side you will wind up with a large bur curving to the other side which will not give you a sharp edge. No way around it, at all.

+1 Anyone who has studied straight razor shaving will understand that stropping just one side of an edge is a useless endeavor.


Nope, not believing it for anything. Probably a case of someone who has an extremely easy beard to shave and a not so sensitive face.

Charlie

I am going with what a commenter said on the video: someone is secretly changing out his carts without him realizing it!! :lol::lol:

[JellyFox]

Probably a case of someone who has an extremely easy beard to shave and a not so sensitive face.

Either that or it's a prank.

[sas71]

i felt lucky getting 42 shaves out of a Sensor Excel with no stropping

[luvmysuper]

It's the Razor Elves.
Cousins to the Shoe Making Elves, they come at night and change your carts while you're sleeping.
If you resist their help, they take more drastic measures.

138419

There have been folks telling other folks since the time of King Gillette that they can extend the life of your blades.

None of these folks are still around. Blade manufacturers are.

They come in, manage to make a little money off of the gullible, and disappear, only to be replaced by the next round of hucksters and feeble minded followers.

[Optometrist]

Four shaves with a Fusion cartridge and I struggled to make it last a week. Perhaps he secretly uses some hair removal product before shaving and that's how he gets such longevity. :001_unsur

David

[Sledgehammer39]

That's it I am convinced totally!! I am getting rid of all my DE/SE razors and blades and buying all the Fusion blades I can. Wait for it... Wait for it.. NOT!!:lol::lol::lol:

[Perkus]

It's not a about elves or metaphysics. From where I stand I cannot say that guy seems to have any hidden agenda. He's just sharing an idea he tested, which seems to work for him.

I got about 6 months to a year out of my Mach 3 cartridges, but then I shaved 3 times a week. What I liked the most with that particular cartridge was that the hair was so easily rinsed out of the blades, which, in my view was one reason for the longevity. Clean blades stay sharp.

I don't think it seems unlikely that scraping the razor head against your skin will remove grit from the edge, thus making the blade sharper than before.

Good on him! Shame on you lot for being so sarcastic for no reason.

By the way, switching to DE or straight razor, brush and manual lathering is NOT cheaper than Mach 3, by any means. At least if you get hit by the ADs, as I did.

:oP

[Tha Baron]

I could survive off of rice and vitamin supplements, but why would I want to?

[bjh618]

By the way, switching to DE or straight razor, brush and manual lathering is NOT cheaper than Mach 3, by any means. At least if you get hit by the ADs, as I did.

:oP

Yeah, we all got ripped on that one! :lol:

What I wanna know is who started that rumour!

[Jethro1984]

I'll bet that cartridge has lasted 22 months. He takes it off and puts a different one on when he shaves. He just keeps that one for the videos. :lol:

[Hansel]

You know, something just occurred to me here...

Back when I used canned goop with cartridges that were often old and dull, and on days when I HAVE to rush through a shave or when I have a particularly crappy blade, I find that while I still sometimes get a clean shave what happens is that the blade seems to pull out as many hairs as it shaves off...

He creator of this video mentioned that his cartridges start to feel "scratchy" when they get near replacement time, and I assume this is because the blade edge has been dinged up and the rough surface is now dragging along the face.

Obviously, when this happens to a straight razor, stropping the razor takes care of this damage on both sides of the blade. Stropping, or rather, attempting to strop a cartridge obviously only takes care of the exposed side of the blade...

Perhaps whats happening when we see people posting these kind of videos is that they have become accustomed to shaves where the razor pulls hairs rather than cutting them. When they strop the cartridges, this eliminates the scratchy feeling against their skin. With the scratchy feeling removed, they now only feel the sensation of pulling hairs. Since they've probably never taken time to properly prepare their face for shaving, the pulling hair sensation is "normal" to them, and the barrage of blades makes sure that all hairs in it's path are yanked from the face. Thus, they still get a "nice clean shave"......Ouch...

[Jethro1984]

An interesting point Hansel. I didn't think of that. You very well might be right!

[Perkus]

all hairs in it's path are yanked from the face. Thus, they still get a "nice clean shave"......Ouch...

You said the word.

[Perkus]

Yeah, we all got ripped on that one! :lol:

What I wanna know is who started that rumour!

On the theme of hidden agendas... :glare: I wanna know, too! :sneaky2:

[neilt]

no arm hair, no chest hair. prob in his 50s with peach fuzz.

[Go West Young Man]

Every time this comes up, the answer is the same - some people just get accustomed to lousy shaves and consider those to be 'normal'.

Once you've figured out what a good shave is supposed to feel like, you can't go back.

[Perkus]

Here's another view on the subject:

http://everything2.com/title/Stop+spending+money+on+razor+blades

Enjoy!

:o)
Perkus

[Perkus]

Besides, if this *er works, then why not your underarm?!

http://www.grooming.se/sv/artiklar/razorpit-razor-blade-sharpener.html :a50:

Furthermore, I think cartridge blades are sharpened differently to a DE edge. More like a one-side wedge - eh, chisel? - than a knife. This could well be one reason why it may work to merely hone one side.

If someone gets 22 months off a Gillette cartridge: Congratulations!

For the quality addicts and purists - to which crowd I now strangely happily belong - remains to pursue that perfect feel and just know: There is an even better one just around that next corner... be it with a new razor, another blade, a fresh soap, that fabulous brush that came in the mail this morning, or perhaps in the angle of my wrist.

And to think I ventured into this world thinking I'd save some money on blades... :biggrin1:

[luvmysuper]

I encourage everyone who believes you can hone or strop or otherwise extend the life of your cartridge by the use of a tool or gimmick or device to please go out and buy these right away. All of them.

This will result in less free capital available to jack up the prices on e-bay stuff that I want to buy.

[GDCarrington]

I encourage everyone who believes you can hone or strop or otherwise extend the life of your cartridge by the use of a tool or gimmick or device to please go out and buy these right away. All of them.

This will result in less free capital available to jack up the prices on e-bay stuff that I want to buy.

I thought that was free radicals instead of capital. Oops, sorry, the free radicals are on the vitamin forum, not this one! :lol::lol::lol:

[henkverhaar]

ItThere have been folks telling other folks since the time of King Gillette that they can extend the life of your blades.

None of these folks are still around. Blade manufacturers are.

NOthing to do with gullibility, just with economics. Heck, even King Gillette used to do it. Their very first ad was for a razor system (the old type, nothing different from what we know) were he would sell you the razor and 12 blades, and would resharpen those blades when they were worn out - no blade aftermarket yet. Then in a few months, he'd changes his business model to a blade aftermarket model, although he still offered resharpening services...

The fact that there's no market for honing and stropping devices anymore is that is/was not really worth it, honing has become more difficult with the ever thinner blades (original Gillette blades were fairly hefty compared with current blades), the market for DE blades all but disappeared in Europe and the US with the advent of the cartridge systems, and it wasn't truly economical in the first place. The only reason why I strop my blades / have several stropping devices is 1] curiosity, and 2] as an insurance policy against the potential event of DE blades becoming completely unavailable (and yes I know, I could also just secure a lifetime supply of good blades while they are still available).

[henkverhaar]

Here's another view on the subject:

http://everything2.com/title/Stop+spending+money+on+razor+blades

Enjoy!

:o)
Perkus

And its based on hearsay, conjecture, and wrong info/bad research. Gillette never invented the 'razor and blades' model where you give away the razor, and it certainly doesn't predate 1920. In fact up until Gillettes original patents ran out, the razors were quite expensive - in the order of a third of a week's pay for an average factory worker.

Please see http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/file/532-rcp-razors.pdf

[michiganlover]

And its based on hearsay, conjecture, and wrong info/bad research. Gillette never invented the 'razor and blades' model where you give away the razor, and it certainly doesn't predate 1920. In fact up until Gillettes original patents ran out, the razors were quite expensive - in the order of a third of a week's pay for an average factory worker.

Please see http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/file/532-rcp-razors.pdf

+1

I don't honestly think Gillette played Razors and Blades until the release of the Trac II in 1971. At that point they actually did send the razor to people's homes for free (or for a nominal fee; you pay postage). They could play Razors and Blades with the Trac II, as the handle being made of both metal, and plastic was far cheaper to produce.

The fact that Gillette become the huge giant it is, was more about them being in the right place at the right time: they got a huge new base of customer's when they won the contract to supply razors for the US military.

[Slash McCoy]

I thought that was free radicals instead of capital. Oops, sorry, the free radicals are on the vitamin forum, not this one! :lol::lol::lol:

All the free radicals should be captured, tried, and imprisoned. That will fix their hash.

[GDCarrington]

All the free radicals should be captured, tried, and imprisoned. That will fix their hash.

Good we will banish the free radicals. That might free up the cartridges to last an extra shave or two!