SharpSpine's OneBlade Journal (now w/ CORE)

SharpSpine, Ted Pella has the GEM PTFE SS blades for $34.95/200 ($.17 per blade).  might not hurt to throw those numbers up there.

I ordered those for my Micromatic

how were the shipping prices?

SharpSpine, Ted Pella has the GEM PTFE SS blades for $34.95/200 ($.17 per blade).  might not hurt to throw those numbers up there.

I ordered those for my Micromatic

how were the shipping prices?

I have to look up the invoice, but I know I used Fedex Home.

December 27, 2015 -- #7

Seventh shave on this Feather blade, and eighth overall on the OneBlade. Despite my coarse beard I have not had any trouble using this mild razor and the Feather spineless blades. Even on its seventh use this blade still delivered a BBS shave. I did need some slight touch-ups for the first time to get to BBS after my usual two passes. So the keen edge of the blade is losing some of its sharpness, but it is by no means done cutting. It is just at a point now where I can feel it cutting without it risking my skin to weepers, nicks, cuts, or irritation.

Imagine taking a hot knife through a stick of butter. It glides through effortlessly. Now take that same stick of butter and cut it with a cold knife. I'm pretty sure you'll still be able to slice through the butter, but you are going to feel the slicing action more. This is the difference between a fresh SE blade (hot knife) & a broken in blade (cold knife). I don't push blade longevity to save money. I actually find the extra feedback to contribute to my woosah of shaving. When the blade is so sharp to slice without feedback I feel like I'm missing something in my shave.

It will take a seriously quick degradation of the steel for this blade not to last 10 shaves. I'm feeling really good about both this blade and the razor too. This is a well thought out and executed shaving system despite its many detractors. If you have the means, then I highly suggest you give this razor a try. If it is out of your budget, then please feel free to message me and I'll be glad to discuss other SE options for you.

Until my next OneBlade shave...

Can't remember whether your said you are palm or any kind of stropping after each use. I can forsee that, being thicker, the blade might reach a less keen edge, BUT a more durable and less likely to change condition where the next x number of shaves will be like today's. And, if that condition is satisfactory to you, it could go on for quite some time!

Can't remember whether your said you are palm or any kind of stropping after each use. I can forsee that, being thicker, the blade might reach a less keen edge, BUT a more durable and less likely to change condition where the next x number of shaves will be like today's. And, if that condition is satisfactory to you, it could go on for quite some time!

That is precisely what I notice with SE blades beamon. I palm stropped this blade when it was new and again yesterday when I reinstalled it after my GEM de-spined experiment.

SharpSpine...I'm interested to see how many uses your wife can get out of the feather SE blades when shaving her legs and etc.. I think my wife might like this razor due to its pivoting head...something that reminds her of her multi-blade cart she tend to use most of the time.

andrewjs18, I'm not sure we are going to find out. There is something about the ergonomics that she doesn't like. She has tried it 2 times, but her last shave she went back to her Feather Weight. She did tell me that she thought the blades were great and that they aren't what bother her. It's more about how it feels in her hand.

With how much I'm enjoying the OneBlade I don't see it going anywhere. I'll try to get her to revisit it down the line.

andrewjs18, I'm not sure we are going to find out. There is something about the ergonomics that she doesn't like. She has tried it 2 times, but her last shave she went back to her Feather Weight. She did tell me that she thought the blades were great and that they aren't what bother her. It more about how it feels in her hand.

With how much I'm enjoying the OneBlade I don't see it going anywhere. I'll try to get her to revisit it down the line.

if you want to send it along to Philly for me to try....I'm just saying.

December 28, 2015

I was wrong. The blade seemed to degrade overnight. This morning's shave was ok, neither bad nor great. I had a hard time getting my stubble just below my nose during the ATG pass. This is usually a tell tale sign for a dull blade for me. I also had some razor bumps on my super sensitive lower neck which is a first for me in quite some time.

So while this blade didn't reach my goal of 10, I still have faith that this FHS blade can get to 10 and even more. I was pretty harsh on this blade and still got 8 shaves (6 great ones, 1 purposefully sabotaged, and then the last one not so great).

Next up I plan on using the de-spined GEM blade for 2 more shaves (3 total), followed by the next 3 shaves using a fresh Feather Hi-Stainless. Before this though I'm going to take a short break to reset my senses by using my AlumiGoose for a couple shaves (& hopefully adding on to my Mongoose journal since I'm obviously in the journaling frame of mind).

Until my next OneBlade shave...

December 28, 2015

I was wrong. The blade seemed to degrade overnight. This morning's shave was ok, neither bad nor great. I had a hard time getting my stubble just below my nose during the ATG pass. This is usually a tell tale sign for a dull blade for me. I also had some razor bumps on my super sensitive lower neck which is a first for me in quite some time.

So while this blade didn't reach my goal of 10, I still have faith that this FHS blade can get to 10 and even more. I was pretty harsh on this blade and still got 8 shaves (6 great ones, 1 purposefully sabotaged, and then the last one not so great).

Next up I plan on using the de-spined GEM blade for 2 more shaves (3 total), followed by the next 3 shaves using a fresh Feather Hi-Stainless. Before this though I'm going to take a short break to reset my senses by using my AlumiGoose for a couple shaves (& hopefully adding on to my Mongoose journal since I'm obviously in the journaling frame of mind).

Until my next OneBlade shave...

Really enjoying your shave reports and the GEM experiment is very interesting.
I binned my blade after four uses. I'm pretty sure I could had gone for 1-2 more shaves with it but it didn't seem as sharp as initially and for the cost of a blade I don't want to try to squeeze a couple of more shaves out of it. If I can consistently get four shaves out of each blade, and it seems like I can, I'll be very happy with that