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Post by wchnu on Mar 6, 2014 0:43:30 GMT -6
Like he said. : ). They end up nice and stiff in a 1912. I remember the blade holder idea though and will try to get time for making one. All the purists are starting to grimace now. I can feel it out in the interwebanet. Et tu, Brute?
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Post by HoosierTrooper on Mar 6, 2014 5:34:58 GMT -6
If the truth be told I have been trimming Astras with a pair of scissors and using them easily in 1912s for a while. I like the shave. Care to elaborate? I assume you just cut one edge off to make the blade the same size as an SE blade.
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Post by RocketMan on Mar 6, 2014 9:45:58 GMT -6
.. To use a regular DE blade, you need to snip the edges off and the back end which makes it a single edge. I guess you could spine them or even snip the sharp edges off another couple to use either side for rigidity, making it about as thin as a single SE blade. It's a bit wasteful, but DE blades are cheap as chips. Go VERY careful with any sharp edges you snip off! PJGH has it down. Use solid good quality small scissors. 1- width - each side needs a narrow piece removed to fit - maybe 1/16 or so, not much 2- trim off one blade edge. I like Astras because I use the tops of the letters as the line to cut. Cut off a strip that just touches the tops of the Astra letters 3- chuck the three pieces out, pop the blade in a 1912/dammy and away ya go! ( sorry Dick). : ) If your scissors aren't good the blade will warp. Nice sharp ones work like small tin snips and cut quite well. I use a small pair of henckel sewing scissors. Work like a charm.
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Post by RocketMan on Mar 6, 2014 10:10:58 GMT -6
Like he said. : ). They end up nice and stiff in a 1912. I remember the blade holder idea though and will try to get time for making one. All the purists are starting to grimace now. I can feel it out in the interwebanet. Et tu, Brute? Afraid so. But, this is fine SE shaving. The result bw the 1912 and a wicked sharp blade is like nothing else. There are NO DE razors that shave like this. It is still an wonderful SE shave and certainly qualifies as an Original Safety. Don't slice your nose off with this tool though. It isn't for the unskilled.
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Post by PJGH on Mar 6, 2014 12:53:43 GMT -6
My motivation for trying this was to get a sharper shave out of the later razors - the Featherweights, Contours and their like. I didn't know about the single edge Feather blades then (and still have not bought any).
This worked out, but it's not something I'd want to do regularly. Razors creep me out at the best of times and the thought of snipped off razor edges in the rubbish, where that winds up, inquisitive animals on rubbish dumps ... nah ... not something I want to do often.
But, it works ...
Whether we endorse it is another thing.
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Post by HoosierTrooper on Mar 6, 2014 16:03:58 GMT -6
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I don't have the gumption to go to all the trouble of making one of the holders out of a couple of SE blades, but I may trim up a DE blade and give that a try sometime.
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Post by PJGH on Mar 6, 2014 16:23:24 GMT -6
Wear your Kamizake headband when you do ...
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Post by RocketMan on Mar 6, 2014 18:26:03 GMT -6
It is really pretty simple. And I place the trimmings in with my used blades which I drop off to the local public health unit once a year for disposal with their sharps. Critter friendly!
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Post by wchnu on Mar 6, 2014 21:57:06 GMT -6
Ugh. Using a cut down double edge razor blade in a SE razor makes it far from an Original Safety. It's like the guys that put new style parts and engines in old muscle cars. Sure they run faster etc... But they are no longer an old muscle car. A SE razor frame with a DE blade is not the same as one with a SE blade. Far from traditional.
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Post by RocketMan on Mar 7, 2014 0:09:30 GMT -6
Are you saying that improvements are not necessarily all good? You do have an important point Fuzzy. It still is a car though. Just personalized is all.
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Post by wchnu on Mar 7, 2014 1:21:43 GMT -6
But it is not a traditional piece of equipment.
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Post by birdlives on Mar 7, 2014 1:41:14 GMT -6
There's room,I guess for any combination of ingredients. Kind of like Fusion (or Con-fusion)Jazz. But when alls said and done nothing knocks me out like pure unadulterated Be-bop. Although I'm not knocking anybody's right to screw-up the purity of a thing...lol...Oh come on.Justing kidding...kind of... But in all fairness I do have the hot's for a restored 1971 Volvo 1800E, with the original 2 liter engine only it's been bored & stroked and had a super charger added. The same guy who did this one said he has been dropping Toyota Supra engines in 1800's with great success, but that to me is just wrong. Kind of dishonest... Like I saw a Fiberglass Aston Martin Vantage body on a new Mustang chassis, and while it was jaw dropping gorgeous I really couldn't swing with it. Just felt all wrong...Of course there is nothing wrong with it, and I wish the owner many years and miles of happiness with it, but it did feel wrong to me. But in the words of Voltaire, "Although I my not have eyes for this jive...I'll defend until I 'check out' your right to dig it" I believe the above quote is correct, but if not, please pardon... Back when I was in school I was seeing the world through Mad mag tinted glasses....also this morning, I may have still been asleep; but I believe I may have briefly contemplated putting a Permanent Sharp Super in my ER'1914, whew ...glad that moment of insanity has passed.
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Post by HoosierTrooper on Mar 16, 2014 5:27:59 GMT -6
I gave this a try with a Personna blade and gotta say, it's pretty impressive. I tried it first in a Streamline but it didn't work because the DE blade is a tad too narrow and slipped right out, so next I put it in a gold Push Button.I have never got as good a shave from a PB as I did with the Personna. This morning it went into a 1924 and it performed flawlessly. I wonder if this works so well because the DE blade is thinner than an SE and without the spine it is setting at a slightly different angle? It's not something I'll do a lot, but it does work very well.
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Post by RocketMan on Mar 16, 2014 14:18:01 GMT -6
I gave this a try with a Personna blade and gotta say, it's pretty impressive I know, right? And sharper than a spelling bee winner. Try to leave a little more metal on the sides. You don't want to lose too much strength or it will compress some which you don't want. Of course YMMV.
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Post by norfolkdick on Mar 16, 2014 15:02:59 GMT -6
Greetings ' A spelling bee winner', I had to Google that one! Regards Dick.
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