Quote Originally Posted by Cornelius View Post
I have no idea why you assume incompetence on the part of the Kiocera testers? Are there specific reports on the experiment that point that way? If it really is too sharp like they say, I could imagine it slicing into the skin at a 30° angle, or even a lower angle for that matter?
In the mean time, our friend Seraphim seems to have the opposite problem.
That is precisely why I too assume incompetance on the part of the Kyocera testers. I doubt very much that those guys shaved with a straight prior to picking up whatever it was they tried to test-shave with (was it something like mine, perhaps?). How many folks with their first straight shave cut themselves? Most all.

From my experience there is nothing uber-sharp about the ceramic. It is capable of getting as sharp, or sharper than a steel edge. I have finished my edge off to 0.1um grit diamond hone. I don't think the Kyocera guys may have even gone that far. But who knows? Perhaps they did.

The night previous to my test shave above, I used the ceramic razor to shave the back of my neck (hey..I had to test it on something...) It seemed to cut rather clean and easy, so I was quite looking forward to the actual shave itself. However, I'm still not sure what the dynamic is that is preventing proper whisker removal It certainly seems sharp according to any tests and observations I have made.

I will say that the ceramic does feel nice and smooth gliding across the skin, which is what I was most interested in finding out about improving upon the steel razors. DE blades have PFTE coatings that aid in glide, and I was hoping that ceramic may have proved similarly slick against the skin.

The issue may be that they are also too slick against a well lathered whisker? Perhaps I should back off from the 0.1um edge, perhaps toa 1um edge, to give a slight degree of serration to grab and saw at the whiskers?

I suppose that's the next step to try.