I’ve made mistakes before I started doing this on a regular basis, one
of those mistakes was going for a cheap cutthroat razor that wasn’t in the
changeable blade category. Sliced me to
ribbons on a number of occasions and caused me no end of trauma as a result.
Lesson learned...
This time I went for a cheap cutthroat but with a changeable blade
option, in this case, the Sanguine razor.
Fitted it with a Wilkinson Blade (wasn’t feeling brave enough for Feather)
and started to have a go with it.
Curious feeling to it, unlike shaving with a safety razor, the angle is
completely dictated by your hand, which means that shaving when you’re either
tired or have just worked out and your muscles are still jumpy is a bad idea.
First time, I’d just worked out...
Lesson Learned...
But after that, I’d got the idea.
The shave wasn’t as close as I was used to with the safety razor, but
that was more a function of my own nervousness at the lack of any defensive
measure against being shredded. The lack
of weight on the blade means that you have to actively press to get the blade
to work, and just a little too much pressure causes a slice to even the
toughest skin.
Several slices later, I decided that actually the best way forwards was
to use the safety razor and then clean up the awkward bits with the cutthroat
afterwards. I’m not going to give up on
using a cutthroat any time soon, but I’m not going to rush the learning curve
either, that way lies a whole bunch of problem.
Regarding the razor itself though, it’s nicely presented, very light
(too light for my tastes), but solidly constructed and easy to load and unload
the blades from the razor (with one minor mishap while still learning that cost
me one of my fingerprints)...
Certainly worth the price paid for it and it’ll be getting more use in
the ongoing adventures.
