All I do is rinse the soap off and put it away. The only time I open it is to change blades. I have hard water and have no issues. Don't overthink it.
+1 I do the same. But do what makes you happy.
All I do is rinse the soap off and put it away. The only time I open it is to change blades. I have hard water and have no issues. Don't overthink it.
months?! The only way I could go months with the same blade is if I was still 11 years old and had peach fuzz
All I do is rinse the soap off and put it away. The only time I open it is to change blades. I have hard water and have no issues. Don't overthink it.
+1 - I loosen the razor, rinse, shake and blow out the excess water daily after each shave. When I change the blade (generally every 4 - 5 shaves), I disassemble, scrub the parts with knucklebrush, dry the parts, and reassemble with a new blade.Depends on the quality of the tap water where you live, if it's nice and soft without too many nasty chemicals added to it, you can probably get away with just loosening your razor, giving it a good rinse at full pressure and shaking/blowing on it to get rid of excess moisture.
BTW, I thought all blades were stainless steal? Oh course im a newbee and dont know much.
Rinse it, shake it, let it air dry. Do you think your grandpa was dismantling his razor after use and drying each part?
No fuzz here bubba! Prep, technique, and a good blade! And since I don't take my blade out after each shave and play with it it stays sharp longer.
Lane, your a slacker!
I get up at 1:15am to go to work. Thats why i shave at night after work. I dont wake up until ive driven 100 miles. Ha.
Sounds like its a mix of cleaning or just rinsing. I can understand the TTO razors need cleaning more. Ive been taking apart aftdr each shave. Rinse the parts, dry on a towel and put back together tight for the next use. Glad to see we all agree. Ha.
I rinse it, take it apart, dry it, hand strop the blade, and put it on the stand ready for the next shave
the razors not in use sit in a jar of alcohol waiting to be rotated in. Needless to say, I don't have a soap scum problem, lol. I only own 5 razors, I'm not a collector or anything, so the 5 suit me fine, thinking about a PIF for one of them but it wouldn't be for a newb, lol- It would be cruel of me to PIF a Gem Micro (bullet) SE razor to a newbie. Anyhow, I'm rambling...but that's how I clean them up after a shave and store them.
..2 questions
1- what is your avatar photo? A girl looking out of a door.
2- what blades? The only one that I can get more than a month on is Wilkinson Sword German.