thisISjoel
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I've been wet shaving for a few months now and I've started to accumulate a bit of gear (something like 6 razors, 4 brushes and 8 or so soaps/creams, with a couple of pre and after shaves mixed in, few tucks of different blades too).
As far as soaps and creams and the like (aka software) goes mixing it up on a shave-to-shave basis is pretty much a no brainer. Different smells and stuff, easy.
For the hardware though (brushes, razors and blades) I have tended to get things that I like better than what I already have and then use them fairly exclusively. In fairness, my first safety razor was a cheap, garbage ebay job with 20 dorco blades so once I had my first real razor, the parker 97R, it hasn't had a start. Next, I got a few old gillettes, a long comb new, an old and a couple of techs. I loved the new so much it took me a good week or so to even try one of the techs and then I like that tech so much it was another week or so before I tried the other one. I still haven't shaved with the old.
Then, last week I decided to try shaving with the parker again, and to my surprise I had a wonderful shave. Comparable to what I experienced with the new (and the first shave I had with the new was revelatory).
So then I shaved with the parker for a week or so and now I just got a fatip grande from @Adam and I gave it a whirl today and it was a really nice shave.
So now I've got at least 4 razors that I like to shave with that I'll have to rotate.
My first brush was a body shop synth, in fact I bought it before I even bought a safety razor. It was like dipping my toes in the wet shaving water. At first I really liked it, but pretty quickly I decided I didn't and I needed something new.
I wasn't particularly keen on badger or boar so I bought what was supposed to be a horse hair brush (Turkish no. 6, bestshave.net) but further research determined it's likely a boar. It's better than the body shop synth, but still wasn't what I wanted.
Next I got an omega s 10065, a great little brush for the money. It put my older two brushes straight out to pasture, but eventually it too couldn't satiate me.
Enter the whipped dog synthetic. 26 mm. This thing is the business. I haven't even thought to use the omega since I got it.
So, that's a pretty long account of my brief experience wet shaving, all of which to ask, how do you manage your rotation? Do you use gear that isn't your best stuff? Any other thoughts?
As far as soaps and creams and the like (aka software) goes mixing it up on a shave-to-shave basis is pretty much a no brainer. Different smells and stuff, easy.
For the hardware though (brushes, razors and blades) I have tended to get things that I like better than what I already have and then use them fairly exclusively. In fairness, my first safety razor was a cheap, garbage ebay job with 20 dorco blades so once I had my first real razor, the parker 97R, it hasn't had a start. Next, I got a few old gillettes, a long comb new, an old and a couple of techs. I loved the new so much it took me a good week or so to even try one of the techs and then I like that tech so much it was another week or so before I tried the other one. I still haven't shaved with the old.
Then, last week I decided to try shaving with the parker again, and to my surprise I had a wonderful shave. Comparable to what I experienced with the new (and the first shave I had with the new was revelatory).
So then I shaved with the parker for a week or so and now I just got a fatip grande from @Adam and I gave it a whirl today and it was a really nice shave.
So now I've got at least 4 razors that I like to shave with that I'll have to rotate.
My first brush was a body shop synth, in fact I bought it before I even bought a safety razor. It was like dipping my toes in the wet shaving water. At first I really liked it, but pretty quickly I decided I didn't and I needed something new.
I wasn't particularly keen on badger or boar so I bought what was supposed to be a horse hair brush (Turkish no. 6, bestshave.net) but further research determined it's likely a boar. It's better than the body shop synth, but still wasn't what I wanted.
Next I got an omega s 10065, a great little brush for the money. It put my older two brushes straight out to pasture, but eventually it too couldn't satiate me.
Enter the whipped dog synthetic. 26 mm. This thing is the business. I haven't even thought to use the omega since I got it.
So, that's a pretty long account of my brief experience wet shaving, all of which to ask, how do you manage your rotation? Do you use gear that isn't your best stuff? Any other thoughts?
