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  • Razor pits and similar devices – do they actually work?
  • CaptainSlow
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    It’s marginal I think is how I’d describe the difference a razor pit makes. There will be folk along soon who swear by them but for a typical Mach 3 or whatever I think they’re a bit snake oil as the lube strips etc wear.

    Ymmv

    IHN
    Full Member

    The Razor Pit is the absolute, outstanding, amazing shizzle. Is that recomendation enough?

    I’ve had one for a couple of years, and use it before every shave (with Gilette Mach 3 blades). Using it takes 10 seconds, max – a little smear of shaving gel on the ‘pad’, rub the blade against it a few times, rinse, done. A blade now lasts, well, I can’t really remember the last time I changed it, so ages. In fact, they seem to get better the older they are. It’ll knacker any lube strip on the blade, but that doesn’t matter.

    Someone will doubtless come along and tell you to get a blade of the style used by Sweeney Todd that’s been hand-forged by a Japanases sword-maker, and use it with some shaving cream that’s made from the pituatory gland of the narwhal, applied with a brush made of dodo feathers…

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    molgrips
    Free Member

    No no no. Traditional stuff is what you need. Vintage disposable razor from the 1930s, and good old fashioned proper traditional old recipe proper good traditional proper proper PROOOOOPPPPEEEERRRR shaving soap. It’s the proper stuff. Proper proper.

    ohnohesback
    Free Member

    I wondered if it wasn’t so much dead skin cells blunting the blade but that the blade was so highly sharpened that being scraped along stubbly flesh would be enough to dull it. I wonder if the shaving saver was in fact a mild form of resharpening block.

    spchantler
    Free Member

    real men have beard. beard manly.

    IHN
    Full Member

    I wondered if it wasn’t so much dead skin cells blunting the blade but that the blade was so highly sharpened that being scraped along stubbly flesh would be enough to dull it. I wonder if the shaving saver was in fact a mild form of resharpening block.

    It’s probably a bit of both, and it probably is. Whatever it is, it works.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    I wonder if the shaving saver was in fact a mild form of resharpening block.

    I thought that but reading the amazon reviews it basically just seems to clean the blade.

    Something I’ve always done is rub the razor backwards down my leg a few times to clean it*, so I suspect it is a similar thing to that.

    .

    (* Yes I realise this is probably a weird habit)

    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    (* Yes I realise this is probably a weird habit)

    I use my forearm unless I’m in the shower.

    I’m in the iron fillings for stubble category rather than facial bum-fluff though, multiblade razors lasted maybe 3 shaves before being dull enough no to be effective and saftey blades are single use (but still work out half the price).

    Just been given an antique safety razor for my birthday, not as close as my merkur progress on it’s close setting, but possibly even gentler than the ‘5’ setting.

    IA
    Full Member

    rub the razor backwards down my leg

    A bit of old denim’s supposed to be rough enough to sharpen/clean a razor…not actually tried it though.

    Earl_Grey
    Full Member

    Isn’t this just the same as stropping a cutthroat style razor?

    BigButSlimmerBloke
    Free Member

    real men have beard. beard manly.

    not always
    try this, but take your hat off first

    monkey_boy
    Free Member

    it’s all bolox… dont waste your money and do this (As above)…

    IT WORKS

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