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Wade and Butcher Wedge
VDH Boar
Palmolive Shavestick
Mentholated Witch Hazel
Brut Splash On
A month ago I considered this razor the dog of the fleet. While it never gave really bad shaves, they were just never all that good. I was always anxious to get this razor's turn over and move back to the hollow grounds. Lately though, I've noticed an up turn in preformance. I've begun just stropping the hell out of all my razors and I suspect this is the result. Today's shave was off the chain though. Without question the finest two pass shave I've had from anything, anywhere, anytime. In retrospect, I think all those "just OK" shaves were the edge just kind of struggling to get where it needed to be. With all the recent stropping it seems to have arrived. I used to wonder what all the fuss about wedges was, now I know. They take a ton of patience to get the edge right but once it's there, it is absolutely ridiculous how good these things shave.