Thread: Why shaving with the featherlite blade is the better than the rest

Ok, since you want other people's opinion I would submit my refute to your statement.

Originally Posted by JGUNS

Shaving with the Feather artist club Disposable straight razor is BETTER than non disposable blades. Here are the reasons:

First, I think that learning on the Featherlite as I have done is the best possible thing you can do. There are simply no sharper blades then the FeatherClubs. I haven't come across any non disposable blade that is nearly as sharp. If you can master shaving with the Feather club(which I don't think I can honestly say that I have), then anything else is child's play. So, for the pure ART of the shave, I think that the Feather artist club master is the true artist.

This has been demonstrated to be wrong - many people's hand-honed edges are just as sharp at the Feather ones. Please submit your proof. I would like to see micrographs of the edges of people who were mentioned previously along with ones for the feather edges.
On my end I would point you to the infamous article by Verhoeven et. al.

However, not only your facts, but your logic is flawed as well: I do not see why shaving with the 'sharpest possible edge' is the most challenging thing in the world, making anything else a child's play. I would argue that far more challenging is shaving with a dull blade, say dull as in butter knife dull. I would submit that if one masters shaving with that edge, any edge sharper than it would be a child's play. If you think that is prohibitively dull, let's use the minimum sharpness that ensures a hair would be cut - I suppose that's about order of magnitude smaller than the thickness of the hair, so let's say 5micrometers.

My own opinion is that the best edge to learn on is somewhere in the middle between the sharpest possible and the dullest possible.

THUSLY, he is more BAD ASS, and let's face it: most of us shave with Straight razors because it is manly as hell, and there is a sad sad lack of manliness in the world today.

So if I would to wield an AFM tip I would be the ultimate bad-ass? There is sharp for the sake of sharpness and there is functionally useful for the task at hand.
You would also have to provide some support that 'most people shave with straight razors because of insufficient testosterone level'.

Next, I would add that the razor itself is pure art in its design. It is perfectly designed to adapt to every person's individual style and do it well, it's balance is perfect, and its light weight is excellent. I have read a ton of posts where people say "it just seems flimsy" or "there seems like there is nothing there." Like this is a BAD Thing??! It is SUPPOSED to be light, the "flimsiness" is actually an extremely fine edge, for the closest shave possible.

Some people actually prefer razors with substance, apart from the ever changing fads. I think extending your idea of 'perfection' to an absolute applicable to anyone else is where your (and many others') problem is.

Thusly, you get a closer shave, another reason.

I know plenty of people who get equally close shaves with other razors, and more enjoyable ones as well.

Finally, no stropping.. Yes yes, I know the purests claim to "love to strop" but Come on, the manliness and art of shaving begins and ends with the shave itself,

Really? "That's just... your opinion... man."

stropping is just extra busiwork, time I'd rather spend on something else, like learning to master the Featherlite!!

Well statistically you're an odd ball. A lot of people actually do the stropping, the honing, the restoration, the collecting, because they enjoy these things.

I'm trying to find something to convince myself that this isn't a classic troll. I really am

I'll throw in my last 2 cents and then I'm out.

I've been on this forum for a bit of time. Although you'll see the occasional barb against shaving with "cans of goo" and mega multi bladed cartridge razors, etc, unless I'm blind to it, I don't feel the consensus among members on SRP is that shaving with a traditional straight razor (non-disposable) is so utterly superior in form, function and ideology that any other shaving method is not only inferior, but wrong headed. I could care less if a man chooses to shave in any other way. Or to put a more positive spin on it for the glass half full crowd, I think ANY method a man prefers to use to shave his face is great for him and more power to em.

YOU on the other hand appear to be telling me that my method of shaving with a traditional straight razor is inferior to the Feather. I guess I don't get it. I must be one of the luddites you make subtle reference to.

Chris L

Oh, and yeah, I agree, Quick; I can't help but think Forzato sold his defective Norton combo stone and other straight razor gear, bought a Feather and has reincarnated himself.