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I'll admit that I am a bit discouraged, but that may be because I was expecting too much, and got a bit carried away. At first it wasn't too bad, and I got a little too confident and didn't proper...

I'm sorry to report that my first shave with the Shavette did not go well. It's OK at first using 1/2 a DE blade, but what I failed to consider was the corner of the blade closest to the handle.... ...

Michael-

That's good advice. Thank You!

Reminds me of when I got away from the plastic safety shaver/multi-blade TRAC-XXX shavers that did little but make stubble and in-grown hairs......
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I get a VERY good shave using my DE shavers.
My critieria is if I can get a better shave using a straight blade.
I'm not so much an afficio about grinding/honing/stropping, etc....

Don't get me wrong... I LOVE my vintage Gillette DE razors ( not so crazy about my Merkur, though) , and I'm not sure that I can get a better shave with a straight razor, but I'm jumping into the...