You should get a slant.
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+1 just had loan of one for the week and they are pretty cool. Shaved real sweet.
You should get a slant.
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don't get a slant - they are dangerous, difficult to use, prone to nicking/cutting/slashing, they won't load a blade properly, you are inviting trouble.
This twist results in a cutting condition that machinists would call a 'negative radial rake' and it sets up a 'shearing' cutting condition versus 'plowing' for a positive rake. This shearing condition cannot be duplicated by simply using a conventional DE and manually applying a slanting stroke. The underlying geometric relationships of the slant simply do not exist in the conventional DE razor.
don't get a slant - they are dangerous, difficult to use, prone to nicking/cutting/slashing, they won't load a blade properly, you are inviting trouble.
I'll go a different route here. Don't get a slant, learn to shave the "proper" Gillette way and you get the main benefits of a slant out of any razor.
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While this is a good technique, a slant makes it easier, and usable everywhere. It is nearly impossible to do the Gillette Slide on the trickier parts of ones face, especially if one has a more defined/sharp chin and neck area.
Interesting for a member of BOSS to say....\
[FONT=&]The Slant head actually induces a 'twist' to the blade with the effect that the edge ends up having a constantly varying radius, where the instantaneous radius of curvature at each point on the blade edge is unique. This effect cannot be duplicated by simply taking a linear edge, and making an angular, sliding type stroke. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]The blade is twisted; it twists when you tighten down the head, that's how a regular razor blade gets "slanted". That's part of the genius of the design. The blade rest is lower on the right side than on the left and when you tighten the head, this results in the blade being torqued or twisted and that creates the "slant". The edge of the blade has exactly the same exposure all along its length. You need to look at the razor from the top down to see this. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]This twist results in a cutting condition that machinists would call a 'negative radial rake' and it sets up a 'shearing' cutting condition versus 'plowing' for a positive rake. This shearing condition cannot be duplicated by simply using a conventional DE and manually applying a slanting stroke. The underlying geometric relationships of the slant simply do not exist in the conventional DE razor.[/FONT]
You went off the rails here. The angle of the edge relative to its direction of travel is what enhances the slicing action of the cut, not the twisting of the body of the blade. The twisting is a means to two ends: the primary goal of slanting the blade edge, and the secondary goal of further stiffening the blade. While the second is unique to the torsion slant, the first is exactly the same as slanting the blade yourself, whether taking an angled stroke with the razor, or angling the razor itself and taking straight strokes. It's how the blade comes into contact with and moves through the whisker that matters, not how the blade edge angle was achieved.
I am glad that you at least didn't say that the twist changes the blade exposure across its width, because that's normally what people say when they raise the magical twist of the slant, which makes utterly no sense.
with a slant the blade cuts with a scything/slicing motion, a regular DE chops (or more correctly, crushes).
think of it in terms of a guillotine being the DE and the slant being the scottish maiden - two totally different blade/cutting angles regardless of the position of the neck (or whiskers). the scottish maiden (slant) being the most efficient.
You went off the rails here. The angle of the edge relative to its direction of travel is what enhances the slicing action of the cut, not the twisting of the body of the blade. The twisting is a means to two ends: the primary goal of slanting the blade edge, and the secondary goal of further stiffening the blade. While the second is unique to the torsion slant, the first is exactly the same as slanting the blade yourself, whether taking an angled stroke with the razor, or angling the razor itself and taking straight strokes. It's how the blade comes into contact with and moves through the whisker that matters, not how the blade edge angle was achieved.
I have to disagree. I believe the radial rake would make it that much smoother. It does affect the cutting movement. IMO