Thread: Shavettes, the whole truth.

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this one, ok, i can see the difference now, how does the clip thing at the end of the blade holder affect its use?

It doesn't affect it at all. It just holds the door closed so the blade won't move.

I have the devo shavette, I used it until the 2 blades it came with went dull. I would prefer to use it more often because I'm lazy and don't feel like honing my razors, and its more convenient for me to travel with. I have about 30 straight razors but only shave with 3 of them that I rotate until I have to hone them I went a little over board on collecting after I received my great grandfathers collection and got hooked. My personal opinion its much cheaper to shave with a straight razor, 15$ for 10 - 2 sided long blades so 20 usable in total for my shavette, or roughly 150$ and some time and effort to learn how to hone for your life and a few razors and you never need to buy blades again.

Coming in a bit late on this thread... but oh well, can't be too late if it's good info! Right on man, I wish that I would have read this when I first began shaving, because it's true, it really does cover all wet shaving. This should be moved to the beginners thread!
I haven't got into shavettes yet but am considering it. A good travel razor? But I'm on the fence about that because i plan on having a DE for that... just seems sensible... ? Hmm

Great thread, I'm still relatively new to shaving with an open blade, my fiancé got me a shavette
as part of a starter kit and I love it. I'm on the verge of purchasing my first real straight very
soon but for me the shavette has been superb. Rarely have any cuts or nicks and don't have to
worry about honing/stropping - that's the thing that worries me most when I get my straight.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

this one, ok, i can see the difference now, how does the clip thing at the end of the blade holder affect its use?

I ordered the same just yesterday, i can wait to have it to try it. I'll give a review after i use it. Gino

Originally Posted by Sinzalot

Rarely have any cuts or nicks and don't have to
worry about honing/stropping - that's the thing that worries me most when I get my straight.

Stropping isn't too hard. Go slow and just use the weight of the blade. Just like shaving, if you focus on what you're doing and understand the technique, you won't have any trouble. You can always have your blade professionally honed, too, until you decide you're ready to take that on yourself.

Originally Posted by Moonshae

Stropping isn't too hard. Go slow and just use the weight of the blade. Just like shaving, if you focus on what you're doing and understand the technique, you won't have any trouble. You can always have your blade professionally honed, too, until you decide you're ready to take that on yourself.

One more vote for starting with shavettes. It really eliminates the edge quality out of the equation and beginners can focus on the shave first. I too tried to go the path of trying to learn to shave and strop at the same time. Could manage ten shaves before the edge was unusable. Time to learn to hone and postpone shaving studies? No way, I bought a shavette, learned to shave and only now am trying to learn to hone.

The problem is that there's a need to learn to shave and strop at the same time. Both are easy when you know what you're doing and understand the technique. By definition we n00bs don't have a clue. And most of us don't have a mentor to show how it's done and only information source is the opinion flood on the internet.

Originally Posted by elmoensio

By definition we n00bs don't have a clue. And most of us don't have a mentor to show how it's done and only information source is the opinion flood on the internet.

I'd say to check out Lynn's stuff on youtube and you'll be alright.

Best wishes,
OldSalt