What soap/cream did you use today?

Bay Rum (Barrister & Mann) orange bay rum
Shave 25 ・ 56% left

Today, I used a different soap and aftershave, but kept everything else the same as yesterday. Despite the uniformly close scraping I’ve done this week, I still haven’t felt any irritation, which is remarkable. I’m not sure whether to attribute these fine shaves to the mild Blackbird Lite razor or to the towering mountain of lather I create each day.
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Preshave Ice cube ・ Brush Zenith Big Boar ・ Lather Yanagi bowl ・ Razor Blackbird Lite Ti ・ Blade Wizamet (day 5) ・ Passes WTG, XTG ・ Postshave Barrister & Mann Bay Rum ・ Hoard 20,966 g

I had the pleasure of using the Blackbird Ti this past week with both baseplates and that lite is very smooth but nicely efficient especially for the everyday shaver.

Yes, Frank, the Blackbird Lite Ti is a pleasure to shave with! It feels so mild, yet it gives such a smooth shave, even after only two passes. I don't have the standard Blackbird baseplate yet (but it's in my shopping basket!). How would you compare the Blackbird Ti to the stainless steel version? Completely different beasts?

Bay Rum (Barrister & Mann) orange bay rum
Shave 25 ・ 56% left

Today, I used a different soap and aftershave, but kept everything else the same as yesterday. Despite the uniformly close scraping I’ve done this week, I still haven’t felt any irritation, which is remarkable. I’m not sure whether to attribute these fine shaves to the mild Blackbird Lite razor or to the towering mountain of lather I create each day.
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Preshave Ice cube ・ Brush Zenith Big Boar ・ Lather Yanagi bowl ・ Razor Blackbird Lite Ti ・ Blade Wizamet (day 5) ・ Passes WTG, XTG ・ Postshave Barrister & Mann Bay Rum ・ Hoard 20,966 g

I had the pleasure of using the Blackbird Ti this past week with both baseplates and that lite is very smooth but nicely efficient especially for the everyday shaver.

Yes, Frank, the Blackbird Lite Ti is a pleasure to shave with! It feels so mild, yet it gives such a smooth shave, even after only two passes. I don't have the standard Blackbird baseplate yet (but it's in my shopping basket!). How would you compare the Blackbird Ti to the stainless steel version? Completely different beasts?

It was for me with Ti being amazing

Bay Rum (Barrister & Mann) orange bay rum
Shave 25 ・ 56% left

Today, I used a different soap and aftershave, but kept everything else the same as yesterday. Despite the uniformly close scraping I’ve done this week, I still haven’t felt any irritation, which is remarkable. I’m not sure whether to attribute these fine shaves to the mild Blackbird Lite razor or to the towering mountain of lather I create each day.
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Preshave Ice cube ・ Brush Zenith Big Boar ・ Lather Yanagi bowl ・ Razor Blackbird Lite Ti ・ Blade Wizamet (day 5) ・ Passes WTG, XTG ・ Postshave Barrister & Mann Bay Rum ・ Hoard 20,966 g

I had the pleasure of using the Blackbird Ti this past week with both baseplates and that lite is very smooth but nicely efficient especially for the everyday shaver.

Yes, Frank, the Blackbird Lite Ti is a pleasure to shave with! It feels so mild, yet it gives such a smooth shave, even after only two passes. I don't have the standard Blackbird baseplate yet (but it's in my shopping basket!). How would you compare the Blackbird Ti to the stainless steel version? Completely different beasts?

Hi Bouki

So I have both baseplates in the Ti Blackbird that a friend sent me to use as I’m in the process of evaluating my razors as I want to get down to only a few.
In the past as some on here may know when I called another shaving forum my home I had a thread where I was doing Shave Offs using two razors in one shave and comparing them for things like efficiency or as some call aggressiveness or effectiveness. Also maneuverability., Smoothness, balance etc. I’ve shaved with many different Blackbirds from the very first version in SS right up to a couple of years ago. I honestly never loved the various different SS BB’s. Could I get a good shave out f then? Yes but I had other razors that were much more pleasant to shave with. Well only about a year or so ago a shaving friend sent me the original Ti Blackbird and I was blown away as how much better I enjoyed it than any SS BB I had shaved with and I started a thread in the Double Edge razor section on here. I didn’t buy one as I was going back and forth on do I want the matte finish or polished that was coming out. So now I find myself with the latest version of the Ti and with both baseplates. For me I very much prefer the BB Ti to the SS version. For me the Ti is smoother, is better balanced and is more maneuverable, all of which means a lot to me at this point in my wet shaving journey of almost 23 yrs. The regular baseplate definitely has more blade feel than the lite plate but with a sharp blade and using no pressure and doing some skin stretching I get a very comfortable shave. I’ve used it with both a hand stropped Feather and a Polsilver blue blade and both have been great in the razor.
Just my opinion of course.

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