03-04-2021, 12:20 PM
Excited to have my first Valet Autostrop shave. Got one from ebay last year and was assuming it only take a Feather FHS10 blade which I have ordered a 100 of and are on a boat to India.
Meanwhile saw a Shaving With Fuzzy video where he shows how to modify a gem blade for earlier models.
Dug out my Valet AS and realised it can take Gem blades too. (Owe you one Fuzzy for that video)
Cleaned, sanitized, despined and clipped a Gemblade blade and it fit perfectly in place.
Picked up a VDH boar - i like its stiff backbone modern Williams and had a go !
First shave I had with a Gem blade which was silent. There was no "scrapping burnt toast" sound- more like an injector shave.
I could feel the teeth prominently and the blade was held at some distance (snug in the tabs)so it wasn't a shave with lots of blade feel and aggressive.
Shallow angle riding the cap worked best. Again no audio feedback but I could sense it was cutting.
Mild DFS to BBS shave. Skin feels soft and smooth post shave.
Excited to join the Valet Autostrop club of all you fine gentlemen here.
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Meanwhile saw a Shaving With Fuzzy video where he shows how to modify a gem blade for earlier models.
Dug out my Valet AS and realised it can take Gem blades too. (Owe you one Fuzzy for that video)
Cleaned, sanitized, despined and clipped a Gemblade blade and it fit perfectly in place.
Picked up a VDH boar - i like its stiff backbone modern Williams and had a go !
First shave I had with a Gem blade which was silent. There was no "scrapping burnt toast" sound- more like an injector shave.
I could feel the teeth prominently and the blade was held at some distance (snug in the tabs)so it wasn't a shave with lots of blade feel and aggressive.
Shallow angle riding the cap worked best. Again no audio feedback but I could sense it was cutting.
Mild DFS to BBS shave. Skin feels soft and smooth post shave.
Excited to join the Valet Autostrop club of all you fine gentlemen here.