What is your opinion ?
Do you think for a beginner using a straight razor, that there would be any benefits to using a wedge blade over a hollow ground blade. Or any other grind for that matter. Anything besides a shavette.
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What is your opinion ?
Do you think for a beginner using a straight razor, that there would be any benefits to using a wedge blade over a hollow ground blade. Or any other grind for that matter. Anything besides a shavette.
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I LIKE THEM BOTH. When I go several days without shaving the wedge just plows through the beard. if it's just 1 or 2 days the hollow round does just fine. I do like the stiffer blades though. I think for me the extra hollow grind gives to much feed back. some folks like it I don't. I also like the blades 6/8 or larger for the same reason. each to his own.
A beginner would have difficulty knowing the difference.
Plenty of posts about this if you search.
Here's one: http://straightrazorpalace.com/gener...-vs-wedge.html
Once upon a time recall there being something about starting with the middle ground, so 5/8 or 6/8 width and full to half hollow, leaving out the extra hollow and 1/4 hollow and wedges.
No shaving den is complete without one of each variety.
Good question.
I would answer it this way, in the whole scheme of things it isn't all that important as long as you don't go to either extreme.
More importantly though I would suggest a round tip of any grind professionally honed shave ready.
It is interesting as FME, most (myself included) that I have known started with smaller hollow grounds. Then, the magical wedges take over. Nothing better! :D Then, some have-to-get-it-hollows arrive. Then it's hollow madness till one decides which hollows suit him. a wedge here, there. Soon it gets : wedges, half-halfs, on down to the thinner ones. They ALL get larger and more expensive. Then we go back to where we started and see what we enjoyed about each along the way. A mix!