Thread: Anyone shaved with no safety bar?

Originally Posted by belce

Hello Gallinazorey.

I use the razor you can see in this post.

It has not got a safety bar and I find it quite sure. I do not remember to have cut myself seriously and I have never used a straight razor. I must say that I do not use it in the part of the neck... hehe.

Regards.

That it!! Thats EXACTLY what my Mercur without the safety bar will look like.


so someone here IS using it this way...interesting! thanks

This is the one I have

I don't understand the need to shave with a DE with the safety bar removed. Obviously at least a couple of people have or intend to. Can you imagine the lawsuits against safety razor makers if they actually built them without the safety bar for producing an unsafe consumer product. I am sure they have and that is why they don't make them without a safety bar. Use it that way at your own risk fellas.

Bob

Originally Posted by Gallinazorey

This is the one I have

Does it work for you as is ? If you cut the safety bar and it doesn't suit you it is trash. The shavettes that take a half DE blade you just hold the blade in your fingers and bend. They snap easily. They are "too sharp" for a comfortable shave and you have to be really careful of you'll be bleeding.

Well, I tried it this morning and here are my conclusions:

1. As far as the shave is concerned it will give a very smooth return, the blade really gets "under the skin" and cuts the hairs at the very root.
2. The actual shave is confortable, the blades goes naturaly in the correct angle and stays there.
3. Problem is since the blade is being held at the very center, so the sides are a bit flimsy. You dont get a very safe feeling as it glides through the face because of tiny vibrations from the 2 sides of the blade. I guess this is where the shavette is better since it holds the blade firm from end to end (since it was meant to be used this way as others have mentioned).
4. This should definatly not be attempted by anyone without prior experience with a streight razor
5. FANTASTIC for side burns or for defining thin mustaches above the lip or any other area of a fine defined facial hair, but not to do the whole face (even though I did with no cuts or knicks)

So does this mean that not only are the guards missing, but also there's no bottom plate under the blade, holding it up against the top? Point 3 implies that.

Originally Posted by Gallinazorey

Well, I tried it this morning and here are my conclusions:

1. As far as the shave is concerned it will give a very smooth return, the blade really gets "under the skin" and cuts the hairs at the very root.
2. The actual shave is confortable, the blades goes naturaly in the correct angle and stays there.
3. Problem is since the blade is being held at the very center, so the sides are a bit flimsy. You dont get a very safe feeling as it glides through the face because of tiny vibrations from the 2 sides of the blade. I guess this is where the shavette is better since it holds the blade firm from end to end (since it was meant to be used this way as others have mentioned).
4. This should definatly not be attempted by anyone without prior experience with a streight razor
5. FANTASTIC for side burns or for defining thin mustaches above the lip or any other area of a fine defined facial hair, but not to do the whole face (even though I did with no cuts or knicks)

I am agree with your conclusions, specially with point 5. I use it just for side burns and it is incredibly precise.

With my razor I do not have the problem you comment in point 3, so that depends on the model.

Regards.

Another alternative is the Rolls Razor. Sold about 60 years ago, its a straight razor on a stick. Cheap and plentiful, they are common on auction sites.

Some Old people in villages do that in Greece and maybe a young guy just for experimentally reasons.In our shaving forum that idea has not many fans,we believe it's a dangerous risk.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

The shavettes that take a half DE blade you just hold the blade in your fingers and bend. They snap easily. They are "too sharp" for a comfortable shave and you have to be really careful of you'll be bleeding.

I agree with that
I have 2 of them an cause me nothing more than nerves and troubles.