Thread: How does your skin differ between a great razor and a good one?

Originally Posted by Headcrowny

We engineers are VERY good at quantifying feelings. It's what we do ;-)

That is all well and good but this is only shaving for Pete's sakes and more of an art/learned skill not a science.

I worked in a pulp mill for 34 years and have seen what engineers come up with when you request a change in the equipment. Typical scenario is asking what the heck the millwright is installing and being told it was the change requested in the equipment. No real resemblance to what we had wanted originally. Just saying.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

That is all well and good but this is only shaving for Pete's sakes and more of an art/learned skill not a science.

I worked in a pulp mill for 34 years and have seen what engineers come up with when you request a change in the equipment. Typical scenario is asking what the heck the millwright is installing and being told it was the change requested in the equipment. No real resemblance to what we had wanted originally. Just saying.

Bob

Yup, similar experience on the job I am on at the minute.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Yup, similar experience on the job I am on at the minute.

Thank Gawd someone else has the same experience, would hate to think we were the only ones so blessed.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Thank Gawd someone else has the same experience, would hate to think we were the only ones so blessed.

Bob

When we hear "the engineers are coming up" it usually raises a few groans. I don't even want to start on the prototype "design" we have currently been sent.

Not slagging engineers here but some I could do without. My deceased father in law was a civil engineer, well not too civil if you peed him off, and a fine practical fellow. My wife's friend is a chemical engineer and I'd trust what she had to say about chemicals. I just don't know what happened to our lot at work. I don't think they could have worked with Kelly Johnson at the Skunk Works unless you wanted an SR-71 that looked like a VW.

Bob

Lovely. So, if we've all finished implicitly insulting me for my implied lack of insight into "real stuff" and inability to "get the job done" as well as someone who "goes with his gut" I'd still like to hear what distinguishes shave quality in the minds of experienced users who have had the opportunity to use a variety of blades.