Thread: i am so ticked off..

Being able to begin and finish ATG in one pass is heavily dependent on skin type. Those of us with sensitive skin likely wouldnt even be able to touch our faces if we tried that.

I've never had a problem like that , I can switch between my mach 3 turbo and a straight any day without any irritation, though I have to say I never had a problem with the mach 3 I just decided I liked the idea of straight shaving.

After reading this thread I threw out my last remaining M3 cartridge to avoid any temptation (The kind of temptation that tells me to drink a whole bottle of cheap scotch just to remind myself what a real hangover feels like). As of the start of this year I have only used a straight and I never want to go back

Did you use lather or canned goo? If you use proper lather with the mach3, you're gonna get burned. It takes much more preparation with the real stuff than with Gillette's sensitive gel. With the gel I just rub it into my face, make a couple of passes without really re-lathering, and splash some AS in my face and call it done, no irritation. With soap I need to shower before shaving or at least spend time massaging hot water into my face. Then I proceed to rub my face with pre-shave oil, and then I whip up some lather against my face. Then I start shaving, making one pass, washing out the brush and whip up some more later, re-lather, make the second pass, relather without washing the brush, then touchup with some blade buffing and j-hooking. After that I wash my face with cold water and splash some AS in there.

My skin feels better after the proper stuff, but that's only happened recently after I did some thinking and refining. The gel shaves has always been quite good as long as I used new blades. Makes me think someone actually thought about how to get a nice shave when they made the Gillette Mach3 system. Having said that, the gel really eats blades, 2 shaves and you're done, while with proper soap you get maybe 5-8...

So I had one fresh fusion blade kicking around in my medicine cabinet and a bit of its canned goo to finish off so I thought I'd give it a try. If your willing to buy a new blade for every shave I got a pretty good shave out of it not quite as good on the cheeks but better on the tuff spots on my neck (since its a shorter length its easier to get a good XTG pass there). And yes it took 3 passes to almost get what I do in two on the cheeks.

Originally Posted by timberrr59

7. Now I have a unique hobby which allows me to dominate conversation whenever 3 or more are gathered.

I love that reason!

I just calculated in the thread about the economy of straight razors (under frontpage stuff I think) how much money I spend on cartridges, 440€ per year, and that's with two shaves per blade My straight razor itself with a coticule and strap only came in at 168€, and I calculated that if you subtract the cost of the Mach3 handle from the cost of the razor (since the handle isn't free either, and I do need to shave with something, the savings from not buying cartridges only have to make up for the additional cost of a straight razor), it turned out it would pay for itself in about 115 shaves, and since I shave about 6-7 times per week that doesn't take very long, and every year after that I get 400€ to spend on shaving crap

The soap/brush combo takes a while longer to pay for itself as I used about a can of goo per month, and a can costs 4€ and my soap and brush cost 60 € which makes the brush and soap pay for itself in about 1 1/3 of a year, which is about as long as a puck of soap lasts, but after that I start saving 40€ per year in goo costs since a refill soap only costs 10€. And the huge cartridge savings also eats the cost of soaps and brushes fairly quick.

Now imagine what would happen if I had a fusion which cartridges costs 3,50€ instead of the 2,60€ for the Mach3's. I would be up to my ears in shaving parapheila and still have money left over.

Sometimes I envy my friend who is a year older than me and still only shaves once or twice per month and can make a Fusion blade last for 16 months. Then I rub my beard and thinks that the benefits of that doesn't outweigh the downsides (having beardgrowth like a 15 year old (which is like what I had when I was 13) when you're 20 just isn't good)

Originally Posted by cotdt

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besides, straight razors are super cheap so you can buy a bunch and put one everywhere you go. i have so many straights now i use them as box cutters, steak knives, and pocket knives. the cutting performance of a straight razor is exceptional.

This makes me sad. I hope those blades are not salvageable for face work.
J.

Originally Posted by jfreaksho

This makes me sad. I hope those blades are not salvageable for face work.
J.

I must say, I'm guilty of this too. I once got my hands on my grandfathers old rusty invicta. It ended up being used as a letter opener. But in my defense it was rather rusty and had a hairline fracture in the middle of the blade.