Post Shave: Noble Otter - The Night Before - Aftershave
40 uses on this blade. Really enjoying it. Not to sound too much like @[email protected], but at this point the blade has changed quite a bit from when it was new. When it was new it gave me weepers. It’s less sharp now, but still sharp. Super close and comfortable.
Haven’t seen a sgrdddy post on the Nacet in months, but when you get to 600 shaves on that Personna 74, I’ll be happy to inspect it under a microscope for you ;-)
My theory is that keenness falls off at a non-linear rate. Once you are past optimal keenness and get to “not great”, the rate of change is so slow that each shave will feel the same for as long as you use that blade. Thus, sgrdddy will have the same 5-pass shave he’s having now for as long as he wants. In real terms, that edge is not changing any more.
You’re probably on to something. Metal is pretty strong stuff unless it’s very thin like the edge of a fresh blade (or a freshly honed straight razor). Once it has reached the thickness where an encounter with a whisker means nothing to it, it makes sense that it could carry on and on and on.
March 11, 2025
40 uses on this blade. Really enjoying it. Not to sound too much like @[email protected], but at this point the blade has changed quite a bit from when it was new. When it was new it gave me weepers. It’s less sharp now, but still sharp. Super close and comfortable.
Haven’t seen a sgrdddy post on the Nacet in months, but when you get to 600 shaves on that Personna 74, I’ll be happy to inspect it under a microscope for you ;-)
Well, I guess I have a new goal.
My theory is that keenness falls off at a non-linear rate. Once you are past optimal keenness and get to “not great”, the rate of change is so slow that each shave will feel the same for as long as you use that blade. Thus, sgrdddy will have the same 5-pass shave he’s having now for as long as he wants. In real terms, that edge is not changing any more.
You’re probably on to something. Metal is pretty strong stuff unless it’s very thin like the edge of a fresh blade (or a freshly honed straight razor). Once it has reached the thickness where an encounter with a whisker means nothing to it, it makes sense that it could carry on and on and on.
Yes, that’s my reasoning exactly.