Do you pick out the blade after shaving?

[Portra160]

When you use your vintage razors, do you remove the blade/open the razor and wipe it after use?
Or do you just leave it after rinse?

[Schwert]

I just leave it...Rinse...loosen the head a bit if there is a load of hair stuck, but just rinse, shake and leave it.

[danek]

My daily shaver is a TTO. I slightly open the silo doors so that water can get underneath the blade. Then I rinse and hang on my razor/brush stand.

[BrianL]

Rinse and shake.

[dixee6]

The Gem razor I use the most gets wiped out when I am done with it.

[Luc]

I usually disassemble my razor, run water and clean it. I then clean the blade and pat it dry. I then reassemble the dry razor with the blade for tomorrow!

[highball]

I usually disassemble my razor, run water and clean it. I then clean the blade and pat it dry. I then reassemble the dry razor with the blade for tomorrow!

+1 Also I check my razor and make sure everything is tight and good to go before I use it

[Rutgers Football]

i remove it and gently press it with a towel

also dry the razor

don't know if this is necessary

[thirdeye]

Rinse and shake.

That's it in a nutshell, plain, simple and more than adequate.

[MAK]

Also a rinse and shaker.

[Brodirt]

Rinse, shake, wipe.

[rainman]

For the razor, take apart, rinse leave to dry open(tto) or apart(3 pc) on a wash cloth to dry. For the blade, rinse and leave on top of my box of 100 IP's to dry.

[flyfishinzs]

i usually disassemble my razor, run water and clean it. I then clean the blade and pat it dry. I then reassemble the dry razor with the blade for tomorrow!

+1

[Davis211]

+2

[Portra160]

I forgot to tell how I do myself. I´m a newbie so I use all my razors even those I collect. Some of them I open/take apart and wipe and some I shake and rinse.

[UncleStu]

Rinse with hot tap water & shake dry. I don't remove the blade unless changing it, or moving it to another razor.

[SRock]

I just leave it...Rinse...loosen the head a bit if there is a load of hair stuck, but just rinse, shake and leave it.

+1 and I never "wipe" the blade.

[82R100]

For now, I'm pulling the blade each time to do a "hand strop". See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogq4wfpT7hc

- Chris

[Rick Sparks]

I remove the blade and rinse blad and shaver, wipe razor dry with a towel and pat the blade dry, then hand strop it and reassemble blade and razor. However, I just got a bunch of used wine corks and, once I toss out the corks made of ground cork, I'll be corking instead of hand stropping.

[82R100]

I cork a new blade before the first shave, my belief being that it removes burrs along each edge.
Stropping on the other hand is at 90° to the corking direction and addresses the blunting of the edge from whisker cutting. So I cork for the first use and strop for the others.

- Chris

[Oldguy]

I always remove the blade after shaving, rinse it in hot water and then let it dry on a paper towel. I never wipe the blade. Part of the reason for this is I might use the same blade in five different razors, five days in a row. I have had no problems with blades doing this. I always also fully clean my razors after each use. To me just part of the fun of wet shaving.

Len

[curtis909]

i usually disassemble my razor, run water and clean it. I then clean the blade and pat it dry. I then reassemble the dry razor with the blade for tomorrow!
+1

[blantyre]

I used to keep a blade in each razor in the rotation and then just rinse and shake. These days I us up one blade and take it out after each use and dry off teh razor.