Ask Aaron Q/A: Razor blade positioning & alignment on a slant bar razor
Aaron is requested a query about razor blade positioning & alignment on a slant bar razor
Roy Bichan, from the UK, asks:
“Hi Arron, I’ve submitted a few questions already asking in regards to the place of razor blades in my DE Merkur 34c the place one facet appears to shave properly however the different facet hardly in any respect. I'm not sure if the blades are a ‘duff’ batch with holes within the fallacious place or if that is a frequent drawback and care should be taken to centralise the blade.
Anyway I've not too long ago purchased the Merkur slant as an experiment and with equipped Merkur razor blade I get the identical challenge, and customarily poor shave (1st time). I repeated the shave the next morning with a feather razor blade and though higher, nonetheless the preliminary challenge. So 2 questions I assume, 1 – blade positioning on the razor and a pair of – is there any totally different method to utilizing the Merkur slant? Thanks, Roy”
Merkur 37C Slant Bar DE Safety Razor
AARON SAYS
“Hi Roy,
Thanks once more for submitting some extra nice questions! There are positively some good methods on the market for utilizing a slant razor. They are a bit difficult to clarify in phrases, so I counsel you go to my good friend Mark’s YouTube channel, Shave Tutor, the place you'll find every kind of useful movies. For utilizing the slant I counsel his superior methods video, and this video on utilizing a slant razor. http://youtu.be/mfb22jUXLLs
As for blade publicity stability, a trick that may assistance is to show the top the other way up, place the blade and the bottom plate on and gently shake the items to get them to distribute the blade evenly. I might not rule out that you just might need obtained an off batch, however in my expertise it's usually just one or two blades which can be off, and never the entire pack. Please tell us how issues progress and in case you are nonetheless having issue together with your blades balancing out!
Smooth Shaving!
Aaron”
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