No really though, I’ve never known technique to make a razor tuggy. I understand getting weepers and irritation from poor technique, but severe tugging? Like, really bad, unusable tugging? I need to know what the reason is!
I’m sure you’ll get to the bottom of it. I’ll offer that those Personna GEM blade edges are great if handled with some care, but are quite sensitive to mishandling. Make sure the blade is seated under the tabs and that it doesn’t shift when the razor door comes down and slides on it.
I looked at @djundjila’s 100-use blade and my 31-use blade under the microscope after last year’s Austere August and was surprised that while shaving wear on both blades was pretty much the same, the 100-use blade showed more damage from handling at the ends. This is where you would expect it, but I have been much more careful in handling GEM blades since I looked at those.
Maybe the lather excelled that second time? If a blade feels tuggy one day and not the next, my money is on the lather being slicker that second time around
Between the razor, blade, and you, the only part of that system that can improve with time is you :)
Hey, leave me out of this!
No really though, I’ve never known technique to make a razor tuggy. I understand getting weepers and irritation from poor technique, but severe tugging? Like, really bad, unusable tugging? I need to know what the reason is!
I’m sure you’ll get to the bottom of it. I’ll offer that those Personna GEM blade edges are great if handled with some care, but are quite sensitive to mishandling. Make sure the blade is seated under the tabs and that it doesn’t shift when the razor door comes down and slides on it.
I looked at @djundjila’s 100-use blade and my 31-use blade under the microscope after last year’s Austere August and was surprised that while shaving wear on both blades was pretty much the same, the 100-use blade showed more damage from handling at the ends. This is where you would expect it, but I have been much more careful in handling GEM blades since I looked at those.
Maybe the lather excelled that second time? If a blade feels tuggy one day and not the next, my money is on the lather being slicker that second time around