Thread: The Grand Experiment- Phase 2

I don't have a SRP TI to offer, but maybe someone would be generous enough to loan you one to make things even? The third TI, although a TI, might behave differently. I know it's a lot to ask, but maybe someone will step up.

Jeff

This will be the first progress report on the experiment. I decided to change the stropping routine a bit so they were all different than in phase one so SRP 38 now gets 30x before shaving and SRP 39 gets 60X while the third TI gets 30x before and 30x after. So after one week everybody is neck and neck. We'll see what happens next week.

If you can put "round 2" on hold, I will send you mine...but it's on loan at the moment and across the country from me, so it may be a bit before I see it again. I have #89. Jeff, it's down in your neck of the woods.

RT

Thanks for your gracious offer RT. The only thing is that this phase is supposedly to validate what was done in phase one. If I change the razors now the results can't be compared to what happened in the last phase. I have a better idea, if your willing to try, after I finish with phase two I could send you my two and you could replicate the experiment from scratch with three SRPs. Now that would be something! And with two people involved it would really nail down this issue of whether more stropping is better.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Thanks for your gracious offer RT. The only thing is that this phase is supposedly to validate what was done in phase one. If I change the razors now the results can't be compared to what happened in the last phase. I have a better idea, if your willing to try, after I finish with phase two I could send you my two and you could replicate the experiment from scratch with three SRPs. Now that would be something! And with two people involved it would really nail down this issue of whether more stropping is better.

Two concerns: I don't shave with a straight everyday, primarily because of time constraints. And, I'm not sure I am expert enough at this yet. I'm still pretty much a newbie who posts a lot! Anyway, I'm game to try, but I would have more confidence in someone with more experience.

RT

Originally Posted by rtaylor61

Two concerns: I don't shave with a straight everyday, primarily because of time constraints. And, I'm not sure I am expert enough at this yet. I'm still pretty much a newbie who posts a lot! Anyway, I'm game to try, but I would have more confidence in someone with more experience.

RT

Well, lets revisit this issue when I finish this phase and well see if your willing to try then or maybe someone else will volunteer.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Well, lets revisit this issue when I finish this phase and well see if your willing to try then or maybe someone else will volunteer.

Fair enough. Even if I decide I'm not qualified, I'm still willing to loan out the razor.

RT

Well another week has passed and so far everybody is neck and neck in this thing. Of course its only been about 5 shaves apiece so its too early. As I recall at about 10 shaves is where things started to get interesting the last time. One interesting difference is that this time I used the coticule to hone them up as opposed to the 8K Norton and 12K Kitayama the last time. There is no doubt they all started out in better shape than the last time. I wouldn't necessarily say sharper but definately smoother shaving. We'll see if that factor keeps them going longer.

stay tuned.

Two concerns: I don't shave with a straight everyday...

Well another week has passed and we're up to about 7 shaves with each razor. I think two issues are appearing here. First SRP 38 the one getting 30x on the strop is beginning to show the earliest signs of a decrease in the comfort factor. Its not much but its beginning while the other two are as good as the first shave. The other thing is it appears I'm getting more shaves this time around from each razor and I attribute that to the honing on the coticule. One conclusion I would say right now is the coticule is far superior to the Norton 8K as far as edge quality goes. For that matter even the 12K Kitayama did not produce as good an edge.

Stay tunes for further developments. Things should start to get interesting pretty soon.