Thread: Ever go back...just to see?

Did exactly that, not too long ago…

I went back to the Trac II, Atra and Sensor. There was not much sense in going back to Mach 3 and whatever came later because by that time I already had abandoned cartridges.

I got quite good shaves from above razors applying what I had learnt over 30 years from DE and straight shaving. The reason that many shavers see the light when they switch to DE shaving may be in no small part because these novices learn at the same time to appreciate what a decent pre-shave and two to three pass shave can do to improve results.

I remembered that the Trac II tends to clog with lather too quickly, on the Atra I often lost the cartridge in my toiletry bag during trips because something had pressed on the release button on top of the handle, the Sensor worked fine, but by that time Gillette had already discovered how to gauge shavers with cartridge pricing, even though Sensor cartridges are cheap by comparison to later stuff.

The Atra release issue can be overcome with some aftermarket handles. Remember the Merkur MII handle, quite good looking, ingenious design that adapts to all sort of cartridges, and is of course out of production…






So if I had to consider one, for air travel or whatever reason, I would take either the Atra or Sensor system, most likely with third party cartridges because I have developed a distinct dislike to Gillette cartridge pricing…


B.

Glad that works for you. That's what matters.