View Poll Results: What makes a razor shave better?
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Brand
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Metallurgy
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Blade geometry
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Country of origin
2 4.17%
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04-22-2009, 09:13 PM #1
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04-22-2009, 10:38 PM #2
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Thanked: 4942There is a significant amount of personal preference to be taken into account here. Type of grind, blade shape, handle shape and feel as well as a decent steel and adequate honing are all factors. This does not account for beard type, lather and face shape and on and on.
Personally I see no advantage to double bevels as the routine and have never intentionally used them. I do tape Damascus razors to protect the pattern, but that would be the only double bevel that I would do. Again, personal preference, experience and success from honing thousands of razors. If it works, I'm all for trying it too.
I will agree though that I have my favorites.............
LynnLast edited by Lynn; 04-22-2009 at 11:50 PM.
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04-22-2009, 10:43 PM #3
I didn't vote but the way I see it there are a combination of factors that make one razor shave better than another including metal, grind, honing, stropping QC at the factory, heat treatment and the way you use your razors.
I find for me there are just certain razors I say are exceptional razors and they cut across all brands and types. No matter what I do to them I can't improve a razor to make it exceptional. It either has it in it or it doesn't.No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
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04-23-2009, 02:28 AM #4
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Thanked: 13234Here are some things I can tell you, these are my opinion but a well tested opinion...
I only like one type of razor and I own over 50 of them and have owned well over 200 of them myself, this does not include all that I have restored and honed for all of you guys here....
My style of razor is a 5/8-6/8 extra hollow grind spike point razor, almost every razor I own / have owned, falls in this category, so the differences are in brands not in styles... There are for sure differences in the brands, some are way better, then other's, some are smoother, some are sharper... You have to trust me when I say the difference is in the razor, not in I had a good hone day or bad hone day...
Ps: I voted Brand because I feel that encompasses the entire razor, like in the metallurgy, I just felt that the best steel in the world didn't matter if it was ground wrong, know what I mean there?????Last edited by gssixgun; 04-23-2009 at 04:36 AM.
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jockeys (04-23-2009)
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04-23-2009, 04:57 AM #5
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Thanked: 235I will have to abstain because I think it mostly comes down to personal preference combined with a multitude of factors.
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jockeys (04-23-2009)
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04-23-2009, 06:24 AM #6
Country. So far, my best shavers have been Sheffield Steel (i.e Rodgers, Wostenholm, Elliot and Reynolds)
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04-23-2009, 07:12 AM #7
I wish I knew enough about razors to know...but, I am slowly learning.
As stated in the thread that inspired this one, I have one razor which, apparently, is head and shoulders above others with the same/similar grind, but different origins. However, I have other razors which share similar orogins to those...so brand could very well be it. Brand does pretty much encompass quality of steel, quality of workmanship, and other factors...right? And there are good Solingens/Bad Solingens, good Sheffields/Bad Sheffields, etc., right?
So, yeah, maybe brand...
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04-23-2009, 07:36 AM #8
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Thanked: 234Shouldn't you have ticked metal? I imagine there are plenty of razors whos country of origin is different from where they sourced their raw materials.
I went for metal, because if you don't have good steel you're lost at sea really. If it's good steel then it doesn't matter what the grind is IMO, after all, that bit is personal preference - but no one is going to use a wedge built from an assortment of scrap metals from pakistan just because they're a wedge fan.
You've just got to have good steel.
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