Grind vs Beard observations

[DwarvenChef]

Today I was in a honeing rut and went threw about 25 razors, ok all my razors... honing and touching up edges. As was going along, say about blade #5 I found myself thinking of the last shave or any shaves from that blade. Remembering the different shaves started me down path that lead me to believe I pick a blade style based on the amount of growth I have. I never noticed I was doing that till today.

Here are my finding, that work on me...

Daily shaves tend to go to the 4/8 to 5/8 full hollows. There is little resistance and I can feel the stubble better with the flimsy blades.

With a few days growth I find I like a stiffer blade, the 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 hollow 6/8's. To me these blades really wack the heavier bristles with little resistance, but i can still feel whats going on.

Now and than I get lazy and end up with a weeks growth and I always seem to reach for the 8/8 heavy wedges. Nothing wackes the weeds quite as well. Once I tried a light blade after a week off and it was a hard shave.

Just to test this I went ahead and prepped up for a daily shave but used my heavist 8/8 wedge just to see what would happen. Wow what a difference, I never had so many sticking issues before (blade flats suctioning to my cheek) I really had to watch the angles. I also had a hard time feeling the wiskers to see if i got it all. I had to feel my face to see where I missed as I could tell by how it was cutting.

I'm sure this has been brought up before but it was interesting to try it and see what the results where for myself. Now I have to post the pic in SotD