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Thread: Different grinds—different techniques?
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03-21-2023, 09:50 PM #1
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Thanked: 0Different grinds—different techniques?
I’ve been shaving with a straight razor now for several weeks, and I feel quite comfortable with it. I haven’t nicked myself in many shaves, and I manage to shave all areas. I mastered the upper lip a chin last. But I consistently get a better, once-pass shave with my Wostenholm wedge than I do with a vintage half hollow (maybe quarter hollow). Both were honed in January. Is the hollow grind simply harder to master?
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03-21-2023, 10:36 PM #2
I found when i started new with straights that more hollow blades were easier to get along with. Heavy wedges and me didnt get along until a couple years into straight razor shaving.
Now days the only difference in the shave with either grind of blade is What i feel like using.It's just Sharpening, right?
Jerry...
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03-21-2023, 11:03 PM #3
I didn't have a wedge to shave with at first and it was an adjustment to get used to. Like Jerry, it is just po-TAE-to/po-TAH-to now.
Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17
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03-22-2023, 12:22 AM #4
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03-22-2023, 01:11 AM #5
I think that you answered your own question....
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03-22-2023, 11:05 AM #6
No matter what size or grind, they all typically shave the same. IMO
Some are just better than others,...sometimes.
I adore the wedge grind over the full hollow's, but have no issues shavin with either or all grinds.Mike
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03-22-2023, 08:03 PM #7
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Thanked: 4826That is part of the reason I went to keeping the same razor for a week. It let me be more efficient with each razor before I switch. It makes no difference now but I still typically do multiple shaves with each razor.
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03-22-2023, 10:18 PM #8
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Thanked: 49The business end of them are all the same. They will shave as well as they're honed. I used to think wedges were all that long time ago. But it's as subjective as anything else. Use what you like for whatever reason.
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03-22-2023, 11:28 PM #9
If a razor is properly honed the bit that meets the stubble is near enough identical in width regardless of grind.
The steel & heat treat, the lather, the shaving angle etc .etc.. They're the variables.The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.
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03-23-2023, 03:45 AM #10
I think the big difference is the weight and the way it feels in your hand plus the sound as it pops the hairs.
Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17