What's the status, Steven?
You mean, with the Vector, Victor?
Roger, Roger.
The Proline came through! The shave was that smooth, close, and audible experience I had come to expect from the Vector. I had searched the interwebs for info on AC blades, and noted that several guys posted that the blade, in their opinions, had more to do with aggressiveness than the razor. Or that at least, more than in a DE razor, blade choice could dramatically change the shave. My limited trial of 3 different blades seems to bear that out. Shane rates the Vector, on the Blackland site, as a 5/10 for aggressiveness. If I had never tried Dave's with his recommended best blade for his face, and only gone with blade marketed as mild, I would have blamed the Vector and either never bought one or immediately put this up in the BST. My DE blade trials were nothing like this; in fact, I gave up after a bit as I had some blades I really liked and only a couple that were bad, but most would be totally fine in my razors. Especially as my technique got better. Maybe I'll find that to be the case with the Vector, but for now, I will stick with Schick, in both my SE razors!
Which reminds me, back in my misspent youth, for some reason known only to my dear Mom, Santa brought my brother and I a Foster Brookes comedy album. Some who read will know the Lovable Lush. Being young lads, we found eructations and flatulence to be hilarious. And this album delivered in spades! But, one bit that still resides in the ol' memory banks is Foster watching his wife prepare chicken for dinner. She was having such a hard time with all the feathers to be removed.
[an aside: after a heart attack when he was only 34, my Dad's doctor said limit the red meat intake. As a family, we moved to lots of chicken and fish. Dad had hated chicken, having helped as a youngster in the late 40's and early 50's at his uncles farm. To this day, he says nothing smells worse to him than chicken coops and having to pluck and butcher one!]
So Foster thinks on this, and offers his wife his razor. It does the job fantastically! So he send off a letter to the company, and tells the audience that soon there will be a man's Schick, a Woman's Schick,........................and......................................
Chicken Schick!!!!!!!!!!!!
You mean, with the Vector, Victor?
Roger, Roger.
The Proline came through! The shave was that smooth, close, and audible experience I had come to expect from the Vector. I had searched the interwebs for info on AC blades, and noted that several guys posted that the blade, in their opinions, had more to do with aggressiveness than the razor. Or that at least, more than in a DE razor, blade choice could dramatically change the shave. My limited trial of 3 different blades seems to bear that out. Shane rates the Vector, on the Blackland site, as a 5/10 for aggressiveness. If I had never tried Dave's with his recommended best blade for his face, and only gone with blade marketed as mild, I would have blamed the Vector and either never bought one or immediately put this up in the BST. My DE blade trials were nothing like this; in fact, I gave up after a bit as I had some blades I really liked and only a couple that were bad, but most would be totally fine in my razors. Especially as my technique got better. Maybe I'll find that to be the case with the Vector, but for now, I will stick with Schick, in both my SE razors!
Which reminds me, back in my misspent youth, for some reason known only to my dear Mom, Santa brought my brother and I a Foster Brookes comedy album. Some who read will know the Lovable Lush. Being young lads, we found eructations and flatulence to be hilarious. And this album delivered in spades! But, one bit that still resides in the ol' memory banks is Foster watching his wife prepare chicken for dinner. She was having such a hard time with all the feathers to be removed.
[an aside: after a heart attack when he was only 34, my Dad's doctor said limit the red meat intake. As a family, we moved to lots of chicken and fish. Dad had hated chicken, having helped as a youngster in the late 40's and early 50's at his uncles farm. To this day, he says nothing smells worse to him than chicken coops and having to pluck and butcher one!]
So Foster thinks on this, and offers his wife his razor. It does the job fantastically! So he send off a letter to the company, and tells the audience that soon there will be a man's Schick, a Woman's Schick,........................and......................................
Chicken Schick!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Eric
Put your message in a modem,
And throw it in the Cyber Sea
--Rush, "Virtuality"
Overloader of brushes, Overlander fanboy, Schickhead, and a GEM in the rough!
Put your message in a modem,
And throw it in the Cyber Sea
--Rush, "Virtuality"
Overloader of brushes, Overlander fanboy, Schickhead, and a GEM in the rough!