Thread: The great experiment

Will be "underground" for a few days due to work, then a houseful of " grand-munchkins" coming for a loooong weekend. Promise to get back to this Monday (maybe Sunday). Still experimenting, just backing up on reporting!

Same here! Have a happy, Harold!

Happy Thanksgiving to you Tom and all my new friends here on SRP!

Happy Turkey Day to you too Harold, Tom & all!

Just a thought, Harold.....Why don't you use only the most problematic razor of the bunch for the duration and see if adjustments over the next week improve the situation?

I was thinking I'd do it a few days in a row. I think it's the Manhattan, but I'll decide, then use it for a week. Great minds think alike!

I also want to think more about what makes a favorite...size, grind, balance, # of day's growth, attitude of the day...etc.

Then I'll get the "rotation back in the mail west.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Just a thought, Harold.....Why don't you use only the most problematic razor of the bunch for the duration and see if adjustments over the next week improve the situation?

I just realized, after reading most of this thread that I have an ongoing evaluation test, so to speak. Every several months or so I will go through my collection (conglomeration is a better word) and do a start to finish rotation cycle of the razors, one a day. That takes about 45 - 50 days to complete. In the process I remember what I liked about that particular razor and if it needs a touch-up or a trip to the hones. If I remembered how it shaved on that use, and I liked the results I would use it for several more consecutive days. By the end of this, to me, rigidly enforced cycle, I resort back to randomly choosing a razor (and if rushed, a DE, SE or any shaving oddity I own) based on subjective response to the day and the look of the razor. What I enjoy the most is looking at the razor and trying to remember what I need to know about it for a successful shave.

One upshot of this process is I have been able to thin the herd every now and then (and of course, against common sense, start looking for more razors to add to the group.)

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

I just realized, after reading most of this thread that I have an ongoing evaluation test, so to speak. Every several months or so I will go through my collection (conglomeration is a better word) and do a start to finish rotation cycle of the razors, one a day. That takes about 45 - 50 days to complete. In the process I remember what I liked about that particular razor and if it needs a touch-up or a trip to the hones. If I remembered how it shaved on that use, and I liked the results I would use it for several more consecutive days. By the end of this, to me, rigidly enforced cycle, I resort back to randomly choosing a razor (and if rushed, a DE, SE or any shaving oddity I own) based on subjective response to the day and the look of the razor. What I enjoy the most is looking at the razor and trying to remember what I need to know about it for a successful shave.

One upshot of this process is I have been able to thin the herd every now and then (and of course, against common sense, start looking for more razors to add to the group.)

Why don't you take over the thread with yours as Harold is done, Richard?
I think that is the original idea, to keep it going.

Oh! BTW, Harold! Your Williams arrived yesterday!




I have a few gifts, I suppose, but one of them is I can see a frown from across the road!

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

I just realized, after reading most of this thread that I have an ongoing evaluation test, so to speak. Every several months or so I will go through my collection (conglomeration is a better word) and do a start to finish rotation cycle of the razors, one a day.

What Tom suggested would be a great follow-on, Richard. I've spent 4 weeks going through a seven day rotation Tom lent me on average 3 times with a few of my own rotated in. I started, with Tom's help, for the purpose of finding put what I really enjoyed shaving with and then thinning the herd of those I didn't. If you'd add yours to it, maybe a thread could be perpetuated that helped encourage new guys, not to go buy 4 of essentially equivalent new razors, but rather shop around and think about a more balanced and "educated" approach than I've taken with my purchasing frenzies.