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Gillette discontinued the Excel-series razor handle many years ago, although I have pretty much a lifetime supply of blades.
I decided to buy an additional handle, as they're getting hard to find, and I don't want to ever be without one.
Found a listing on eBay from a seller with a highly positive rating. This was the listing photo:
That's the original. Well, not the original original, but pretty much identical aside from the color of the rubber inlay. Cylindrical, all-metal shaft, with holder. That's the one I own. The one I cherish. The one I pack in my bag every time I fly. Which is kind of the whole point of buying a second one.
This is what I received:
What the **** is this curvy plastic bullshit?
Not even sure if it's worth my time to request a refund on a $13 purchase... It's probably not. But I'm annoyed.
For some reason the vibrating shaver (they aren't razors) handles really work well. I figured a pulsing blade against my throat would be a bad idea, but gave it a shot anyway. That **** seriously makes even dull blades cut well without burn. It's the magic of science, or the science of magic; I can't tell which.
The problem I have is that while the 4/5/6 blade units that seem to be all the rage these days are fine for quickly clearing large areas, they are difficult (bordering on impossible) to use for fine-detail work on the mustache, eyebrows, etc. The cartridge is just too damned large.
Why are razors getting less good over time? I'm seriously thinking that I may need to just invest in an old school double-edge butterfly safety razor...
The problem I have is that while the 4/5/6 blade units that seem to be all the rage these days are fine for quickly clearing large areas, they are difficult (bordering on impossible) to use for fine-detail work on the mustache, eyebrows, etc. The cartridge is just too damned large.
Why are razors getting less good over time? I'm seriously thinking that I may need to just invest in an old school double-edge butterfly safety razor...
There's actually a sizable movement in men's grooming toward the old school mug-brush-safety razor combo.
I'm usually not awake enough to consider using something more dangerous than a shaver, so I'm good for now. Maybe some day.
The cartridges I use actually have a 5/6/7th? blade on the back for trimming. I've gotten good enough to know where the first blade is, that I rarely use it, but it's there.
I despise electric shavers. They just don't do an adequate job, in my experience, of reducing my swarthy facial hair to an acceptably smooth topology.
My beard-growth is of the worst kind. Scraggly, but firm and coarse. Picture Fidel Castro in his younger years, or the stereotypical "Islamic Terrorist" poster child, and you've got some idea. I've been mistaken for Sicilian, French, Israeli, Greek, and pretty much every other Mediterranean ethnicity imaginable.
I'm 29, i've been using an electric shaver just about all my life.. i dont have a beard other than the flavor saver and a mustache. In the past 3 months i've started using a razor and my beard is finally showing. That is all.
11-04-2017, 01:06 AM
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