Thread: Who has Pierre Thiers in his daily routine?

Originally Posted by mparker762

Mine wasn't quite that tough to tune up, but it was definitely an interesting couple of days. I want to emphasize that it's not frustrating to hone like a Wacker can be, because the lack of microchipping means that you keep making positive progress, it's not a two steps forward and one step back kind of deal. You give it a hundred licks on the hone and it's a little bit sharper, then you take a breather and come back and give it a hundred more and it's a little bit sharper, and this goes on and on. Then one day I realized that it was just a little too spooky sharp, so I julienned a wine cork and that took some of the scariness off the edge.

This razor really clarified for me why the commercial razor blades can go for days and days without stropping - they're simply hard enough to do it. I shaved with the Willams for three days straight without stropping just to see if I could, and it didn't seem to care.

I believe yours is a 1/4 hollow..... mine is a very large wedge... proally the difference in the amount of metal needed to hone off is what seperates the difficulty factor between the two.

I still love mine though

I think too many people try and associate the big bucks with big performance. Usually expensive razors are great shavers but not always. However you can spend little for a razor and get awesome performance also. My most expensive razor is a TI damascus and frankly it does give a great shave but I have many other razors costing a fraction of the price that shave better. I have a Pierre LE and it is one of my best shavers, right up there with my Maestro razor, my puma's and a few DDs and a couple others. What I call an exceptional shave where if you were blindfolded and someone shaved you with it you would never guess there was a razor on your face. You can't get any better than that. The only problem is that after you've experienced that level of a shave everything else is somehow just inferior.

Well, I can certainly make them easier to hone, but...... then it requires more maintenance. My ideal is a razor that will get as sharp as you want to get it and then stay that way with minimal maintenance and stropping.

Originally Posted by PapaBull

Well, I can certainly make them easier to hone

Banish that thought! Once you get them rocking then keeping them that way is a breeze. Besides they aren't tricky to tune up the first time, just time-consuming.

I agree with MP, don't change a thing! My razor took me some time to get feather-like sharp but it is definitely one of my best shavers now.

Is that razor done yet?

Originally Posted by mparker762

Banish that thought! Once you get them rocking then keeping them that way is a breeze. Besides they aren't tricky to tune up the first time, just time-consuming.

Originally Posted by 520dvx

I agree with MP, don't change a thing! My razor took me some time to get feather-like sharp but it is definitely one of my best shavers now.

Is that razor done yet?

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Seriously... I think I might have to get 7 RW's and have a box made for 'em as a sweet 7 day set!

I have a TI Pierreforged and I have to say after I honed it right it's one of my best shavers now, probably neck and neck with my Lynn honed DD satinedge and my 'me' honed Maestro Takeda.

The Takeda is the Livi that interests me the most. I'm a sucker for hard steel, probably because so many of my first razors were Friodurs.