Thread: Rotation Shrinkage

yea, you guys are killing us noobs.... I have one razor that i made shave ready after useing a shavette for a few months got into straights and bought one made in china and made it shave with a knife hone..... then i joined here and discovered lapping film..... been trying to get a better shave ever since I have found this place, and to be honest I have. So do I love my gold dollar yes, because 1 i love shaving with a straight over my de and 2 it got me here to learn from you guys, so how can my gold dollar be a bad razor lol....

To be honest, from my perspective, it isn't that the GD razors are bad per say it is that they are of unpredictable quality and geometry. The issue I see is with that is trying to learn to hone, which can be very challenging for many, and try to figure out problems with geometry at the same time, while never really sure that you have a good enough razor to shave with either. I think that a lot of more experienced guys have a lot of fun goofing around with fixing and redesigning the GD's. I hope you get to the KC meet and really get your feet wet.

yep one day ill get it right and then some one will make a post on how great their shave was of their natural out of space metorite stone lol

Originally Posted by admvalentine

yep one day ill get it right and then some one will make a post on how great their shave was of their natural out of space metorite stone lol

You might want to look up Tim Zowada's thread on using a piece of meteorite in one of his recent razors....

Great thread, I have been thinking about this as I've norrowed my rotation down.
Working on the "letting go" part...

I have my best shaver in front of me all the time but the rest of them need my attention too. It's the same with brushes and soaps. Sometimes you would like to sell one of your kids but you don't. I wonder how much I would get. bj

Gentlemen,

I have trimmed my modest razor collection even more — to 15 and all shave ready — and rotate them. Mine are mostly 6/8 German NOS round points, and I love them all equally. Then there are several that I don't use and sell from time to time.

I've got too many.. for me.

They are all very different. Some I love because of the story that goes with them. Other's shave perfect every time. And others just have a cool factor. Can't really explain it. Try as I might to reduce the inventory, inevitably I talk myself out of selling/trading. And when I do move a razor out, its' void gets filled in no time.

What I do know is that over the past year my preferences have narrowed. I can see myself getting the quantity down to a more reasonable number, and in doing so focusing on only a few makes, sizes and styles.

For the past few months I have laid a set of seven at the beginning of a two week period and rotated through them, using each one twice and different one of the seven each day. Each razor shaves so uniquely different that I never get REALLY intimate with any one blade. I believe I will change this in the next few weeks.. going back to one razor for a week of shaves and just rotate the brush and software.