Quote Originally Posted by salazch View Post
Thanks for the advise. I think I'm gonna take the plunge and get the Feather....well, as soon as I can afford it otherwise my wife will use it to make me into fish food.

Are there any other tamer blades that fit the Feather AC from another manufacturer? I have been too scared to try feather blades in my DE yet!
I figure that I'll just pretend that I'm learning how to use a straight razor all over again and take it really slow, just the cheeks WTG, just like a total noob for a couple weeks and clean up the reset of the shave with my DE.

The Artist club blades are only from Feather.

By all means try the feather blades in your DE!

If you hate feather in a DE the Artist club open blade
solutions will be a bigger risk. The DE world is
interesting. There is a large range of blades to try
so try a bunch.

I can say that tinkering with good and bad DE blades gave me
a whole new perspective on how to hone a straight edge.
And more importantly what I like to shave with....

Back to the AC feather... If you like it you will want
a 'real' steel blade.

I do recommend that you look at the classified.
A $90 or less shave ready blade from the classified or the AC
feather is about the same cost after a year if you
send your razor out to a honemaster as needed.

i.e.
I think a 20 pack of AC blades is about $20
and sending a razor to a honemaster is also
about $20... A 20 pack gives me about two
months of shaves and a well honed blade correctly
stropped will also serve for two or three months.

The advantage of the AC is that you do not need
to learn to strop or invest in a strop.

The advantage of a str8 is that once you master
honing and stropping you can get the edge you
like not the edge you get. That does take time,
rocks and practice...

I never regretted getting my AC feather but it
sits mostly idle at this point now that I have
a worthy rotation of steel.