Your thoughts on OneBlade

Thanks Brian. I took your word for it and earlier today hit Ted Pella and ordered the coated blades and Amazon and ordered a nibbling tool.

Thanks Brian. I took your word for it and earlier today hit Ted Pella and ordered the coated blades and Amazon and ordered a nibbling tool.

While I did get a nibbling tool I found it to be useless. I could make the cuts, but it actually destabilized the blade within the razor head. All I do now is use a pair of needle nose pliers to remove the spine and then insert the blade. Others had good success with the nibbling tool but I'll stick with the simplest solution that works best for me. At least you'll be able to try and see what's best for you. Keep us updated.

Thanks for responding quickly. I was able to cancel the nibbling tool. I don't want to add steps that aren't needed.

Pete123, although I do not have a OneBlade, I have followed SharpSpine's journal on the subject with interest.  Please let us know how you get on with the GEM PTFE in the razor.

Will do. I'm excited to try the GEM blades. I think the OneBlade will grow on me. I have gotten very good shaves with it. As I've mentioned, I love my Merkur, though look forward to seeing the difference between double edge blades and single edge blades as Brian described above.

Any set of pliers will work very well to de-spine the GEM blades.
As long as you get a firm grip on the very end of the spine, bend the blade up and down to loosen it from the spine, then gently pull it out.
It is quite simple and I just finished de-spining 30 GEM blades in preparation for the OneBlade.

Awesome, do you have one in the mail?

celestino, I thought you already had a OneBlade.

So I have been using this for quite a while but there was one tiny part of my neck it just never quite got BBS perfectly.  A month or so ago I came across this video and read the part about the chin. I quote.  "I find the best way to tackle ... [the chin]  with the OneBlade seems to be taking much shorter strokes and backing off the angle of the razor slightly so that the razor’s head isn’t quite flat against the skin." I didn't think much about that since I had no issues with the chin.  

The last couple of days I just started to do what Mantic said in the one trouble area, not because he mentioned it but because keeping the head flat wasn't working. I had intuitively done that for the chin anyway. And ... YES, it works. By raising the angle of the blade, I guess there is more blade exposure and the most difficult place I couldn't really get well before is now as BBS as I can get it.  Then I remembered Mantic's video. If you haven't seen this, you should and if you have trouble areas, you might listen to Mantic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6W7_0IdVo

Good to hear you are really enjoying the shaver! I should be getting mine, finally, in a week or so.