Does your shave last longer with a straight than with other methods?
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Originally Posted by
UKRob
I'd be interested in the science behind this - or is it maybe a little PapaBullShine?
This is why I don't post on forums any more. People are too quick to belittle others, often without knowing anything about them.
A straight razor can be used to shave more closely because, when the edge is just right and the angle is right, it presses into the skin, which gives way and let's the razor catch the hair below the surface of the follicle. The skin gives way before it's downward pressure and the hair is caught quite deeply. The "safety" part of the safety razor prevents it from grabbing that deeply. The "safety" is a bit of a compromise. It made the whole process a little easier. Better? That's what people still debate and, hopefully, respectfully.
Now if you removed that safety limitation from a safety razor, you could do the same thing. But then it wouldn't be a safety razor.
The safety razor has a built-in limitation that the straight does not and that explained that mystery sufficiently to me.
Does your shave last longer with a straight than with other methods?
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Originally Posted by
RobinK
This might help explain why the mythical effects of shaving with a cut-throat razor, especially one forged and ground in the US, are only being observed in said US. And not anywhere else on this planet.
Well, since I am not omniscient, I can't say what people do or do not observe across the entire world but since you seem to have such knowledge, I'll just take your word for it. :).
Of course, the fact that I found this out before I ground my first razor so many years ago would seem to belie your theory here, but can't argue with omniscience like yours. :D