arlopez
Jr. Shave Member
So while I was perusing Target once on a business trip around may 2016, I saw the VDH-Weishi rebranded TTO razor and some nicely packaged box that included an apothecary bowl, a boar brush a stand and a soap so I pulled the trigger.
My initial thought was not save money, nor did I knew the rabbit hole I was getting into, but what I was actually looking for was to have comfortable shaves. I was pushing those cartridges way past their expected use life and that obviously was pulling, tugging and leaving a lot of nicks behind.
I wasn't forced to shave at work, but once in a while I would shave my beard off out of bordom or wanting to change looks but once I read the instructions on the back side of one of those cartridges I said to myself....there's is no way in hell I'm gonna spend this much to only get 4 shaves out of this cartridge when I was well into a month and a half on that single one, mind tyou that I have a really full beard growth, so to me this change was a welcomed one.
4 mo in and I had already aquired a Muhle R41 and a Merkur Futur and although some razor burn from them, my actual 1st cut came from the Maggard's Slant, clocking already 6 mo into wet shaving.
I've used everything from Asylum Rx, Parthenon TTO, Gem Micromatic, Shick G model, Ikon Tek, Sterling HA, Fatip Lo storto and all, and only the Maggards actually cut me, but in hindsight I let all of the reviews and comments get into my head and was nervious as nervious can be, so since that instance I've learned to take all the comments from the forums with a grain of salt.
Although I had slowed somewhat my RAD, it comes and goes, my last adquisition was back in Feb this 2022(65 DE, SE, GEM, Injectors), and like many, I wasn't even shaving that much with all the work from home and not much social interactions that i started to grow my beard once again, this time it lasted a good 7 month and everybody was giving my a hard time.
Lo and behold I got the SR bug at the beggining of Sep 2022, so now I'm venturing into that side of shaving and it has been from dradfull to worrying and all in between I can't say that is still fun, well I guess it kindda is if i was looking at myself from the outside shitting myself the first couple of tries.
Today was my 13th shave and eventhough I had a small nick i think that I'm starting to get the hang of it. Not as close as with my trustworthy R41 but at least not visible stubble as the previous days.
My initial thought was not save money, nor did I knew the rabbit hole I was getting into, but what I was actually looking for was to have comfortable shaves. I was pushing those cartridges way past their expected use life and that obviously was pulling, tugging and leaving a lot of nicks behind.
I wasn't forced to shave at work, but once in a while I would shave my beard off out of bordom or wanting to change looks but once I read the instructions on the back side of one of those cartridges I said to myself....there's is no way in hell I'm gonna spend this much to only get 4 shaves out of this cartridge when I was well into a month and a half on that single one, mind tyou that I have a really full beard growth, so to me this change was a welcomed one.
4 mo in and I had already aquired a Muhle R41 and a Merkur Futur and although some razor burn from them, my actual 1st cut came from the Maggard's Slant, clocking already 6 mo into wet shaving.
I've used everything from Asylum Rx, Parthenon TTO, Gem Micromatic, Shick G model, Ikon Tek, Sterling HA, Fatip Lo storto and all, and only the Maggards actually cut me, but in hindsight I let all of the reviews and comments get into my head and was nervious as nervious can be, so since that instance I've learned to take all the comments from the forums with a grain of salt.
Although I had slowed somewhat my RAD, it comes and goes, my last adquisition was back in Feb this 2022(65 DE, SE, GEM, Injectors), and like many, I wasn't even shaving that much with all the work from home and not much social interactions that i started to grow my beard once again, this time it lasted a good 7 month and everybody was giving my a hard time.
Lo and behold I got the SR bug at the beggining of Sep 2022, so now I'm venturing into that side of shaving and it has been from dradfull to worrying and all in between I can't say that is still fun, well I guess it kindda is if i was looking at myself from the outside shitting myself the first couple of tries.
Today was my 13th shave and eventhough I had a small nick i think that I'm starting to get the hang of it. Not as close as with my trustworthy R41 but at least not visible stubble as the previous days.
