Gents,
I'm hailing from the Far North Coast of New South Wales in Australia. I'm mid thirties and have always hated shaving.....I guess having appalling technique/equipment will do that to the best of us.
In the bad old days I used to rely on crappy disposables - then graduated to a Gillette Sensor......and have tried Mach 3's etc. Last few yrs I've been using a Schick Quattro Titanium but have never been overly impressed with the results.
Then around 6mths ago I read over a thread on DE razor shaving and incorporated a lot of the components of this process into my cartridge technique. eg using a brush (albeit a cheapo boar's hair one), using a shaving soap (again a cheap, Proraso Aloe+GT) and just soaking everything up well before shaving etc.
This made a massive improvement but DE shaving always was something I wanted to do - alas I had bought up a big number of Schick Quattro heads (~50) when they'd been on special, very expensive here selling for around $4 a unit at times! But had to put off for a while till I got through those.
Made the break last week - flogged the remaining 25 or so heads to another chap and intend to go the way of DE...for better or worse.
Anyway have just been lurking in a few forums, including here.....have ordered the following already:
- a few cakes of Mitchell's Wool Fat Shaving Soap
- an Edwin Jagger Medium Best Badger brush (21mm knot)
- a Feather Portable DE razor
- and finally a sampler pack of 100 blades from Ebay (mainly Turkish and Russian stuff)
Happy with most of those (nothing has arrived nor will for a few weeks I'd say) but prolly wouldn't have gotten the brush - nice 2nd hand buys here.
Eyeing off a few older Gillette Super Speed's on Ebay and also considering ordering the obligatory Merkur HD - which from all reports is just a can't miss classic vanilla kinda razor.
Which might be a good thing for me as I'm not cursed with a heavy bristle and would prefer not to have to mess around with it much.
Anyway thats me, nice to be here and look forward speaking with a few folks along the way.
Cheers, Nick
I'm hailing from the Far North Coast of New South Wales in Australia. I'm mid thirties and have always hated shaving.....I guess having appalling technique/equipment will do that to the best of us.
In the bad old days I used to rely on crappy disposables - then graduated to a Gillette Sensor......and have tried Mach 3's etc. Last few yrs I've been using a Schick Quattro Titanium but have never been overly impressed with the results.
Then around 6mths ago I read over a thread on DE razor shaving and incorporated a lot of the components of this process into my cartridge technique. eg using a brush (albeit a cheapo boar's hair one), using a shaving soap (again a cheap, Proraso Aloe+GT) and just soaking everything up well before shaving etc.
This made a massive improvement but DE shaving always was something I wanted to do - alas I had bought up a big number of Schick Quattro heads (~50) when they'd been on special, very expensive here selling for around $4 a unit at times! But had to put off for a while till I got through those.
Made the break last week - flogged the remaining 25 or so heads to another chap and intend to go the way of DE...for better or worse.
Anyway have just been lurking in a few forums, including here.....have ordered the following already:
- a few cakes of Mitchell's Wool Fat Shaving Soap
- an Edwin Jagger Medium Best Badger brush (21mm knot)
- a Feather Portable DE razor
- and finally a sampler pack of 100 blades from Ebay (mainly Turkish and Russian stuff)
Happy with most of those (nothing has arrived nor will for a few weeks I'd say) but prolly wouldn't have gotten the brush - nice 2nd hand buys here.
Eyeing off a few older Gillette Super Speed's on Ebay and also considering ordering the obligatory Merkur HD - which from all reports is just a can't miss classic vanilla kinda razor.
Which might be a good thing for me as I'm not cursed with a heavy bristle and would prefer not to have to mess around with it much.
Anyway thats me, nice to be here and look forward speaking with a few folks along the way.
Cheers, Nick