What razor did you use today?

FAREWELL SHAVE #1
I’ve never done a Farewell Shave with a razor, I feel this one deserves a proper send off before we part ways and goes to a new home via the BST (I’ll list it this weekend).  A smooth operator, a piece of Art, a brilliant performer, an aesthetic pleasure.  You know you’re holding a piece of luxury when you use a P-dime 17-4. Like Sting, Madonna, Cher...you know what someone is referring to when they say “17-4.”

PARADIGM / 17-4
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Gillette Red Tip

Gillette Fatboy / Polsilver Super Iridium

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Haircut & Shave P076-SB Titanium
Personna 74 Tungsten (9)

Pre-shave:- ETHOS First Lather Unscented
Soap: ETHOS Lavender Supreme
Razor: H&S P076 Copper DC
Brush: Varlet Ranger
PostShave: ETHOS Remede Sensative Skin
AfterShave: ETHOS Skin Food Unscented

Pre-shave:- ETHOS First Lather Unscented
Soap: ETHOS Lavender Supreme
Razor: H&S P076 Copper DC
Brush: Varlet Ranger
PostShave: ETHOS Remede Sensative Skin
AfterShave: ETHOS Skin Food Unscented

On a rating scale of 1-10 (10 being the best, cannot do any better) what number did this kit provide in terms of your overall shave?

Can only base this on other shaves experienced. Many here regularly get perfect shaves using various different soaps and razors. Such not case for me. Require extreme cushion and postshave

Razor: at minimum the H&S Copper equals or slightly exceeds my Wolfman WR1 DC custom which was easily best DE ever used

Soap: the Lavender is the 5th best soap ever used after ETHOS Green Fresh, Succes, Agrumes and DragonsBeard V2.  All other soaps used beside the ETHOS have left neck more than ruddy.  Of course there a hierarchy amongst the other brands tried if interested.

PreShave: ETHOS is slightly better than Grooming Dept mainly in convenience to apply being a stick. GD was quite good

SkinFood is just so head and shoulders above any AS ever used including my previous favourite ABC Apricot balm at a fraction of cost

Serum is working well but too recent to really fully ascertain. Seems better than Grooming Dept which also was quite good and Sebum which trailed GD

Overall was amongst best shaves ever but prefer the ETHOS soaps with fruit extract as they even more healing for my extremely damaged and sensative skin.

Apologies, neglected to grade shave:
To my mind there can never be a 10 or the world would end (akin to fool Fukuyama: End of History and Last man).  So let us presume man and his doings imperfect with room to advance technologically.  For kindness sake, let’s limit the human potential scale from 0-8.  Further, as I can not achieve what normal skinned and nondisfigured people can achieve, let’s limit my scale from 0-7. Based on preferring the fruit extract to regular ETHOS soaps, let’s rate it a 6,5 based on little to no perceived latent pain and zero ruddiness anywhere including the neck. It may seem a tough rating but don’t believe in grade inflation - this is in top 0,1% of all shaves ever undertaken since a teen using a very wide range of hardware and software, some amongst best in the world and only behind the fruit extract ETHOS shaves using either Wolfman WR1 0,54 DC custom or H&S Copper.