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Four Lords A-Leaping – Lord Super Stainless

Here we are: the last week of the four week trek through the Lord blades in the collection. Lord Super Stainless blades. To recap, I started with the uncoated Lord Classic blade, followed by the Lord Platinum and then the Super Chrome. The shaves have progressively gotten better, but I'm not...

Paul September 27, 2026

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Four Lords A-Leaping – Lord Super Chrome

Lord Super Chrome blades. It's week three with the Lord blades, and this week's entrant is the Lord Super Chrome. It's another coated blade, so I'm expecting good things, but I've been burned by chrome coated blades before (I'm looking at you, Shark Super Chrome, which is also a Lord product)....

Paul September 20, 2026

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Four Lords A-Leaping — Lord Platinum

It's week two of the four weeks of Lord blades, and this week, after a week of an uncoated blade that felt rough, I'm back with the Lord Platinum, a blade that obviously is coated with platinum. Lord Platinum Class blades. As a reminder, I'm pairing the blades with the Rockwell...

Paul September 13, 2026

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Four Lords A-Leaping – The Lord Classic

Ah, September (almost). Summer gives way to Fall, school goes back into session, the sun rises later and sets earlier, and I am finished with the Anniversary Month shaves. Back to normal, right? Well, not quite. Lord Classic blades. I've had 4 different Lord blades in the collection for a while...

Paul September 6, 2026

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Another Gem?

The planning for this week was remarkably simple to start: I wanted to try the Personna Gem blade with my 3rd mild razor: the Mühle R89. So far, it's performed wonderfully well with the Henson mild and Feather AS-D2, but you know me, I can't call it a success unless I...

Paul July 26, 2026

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Shave 300 Week

I've been making a big deal of this for a while now. Sunday's shave is shave #300, though honestly, I made a rough estimate of about the first 60 shaves and started logging the shaves with shave 66. But even though the number is a little arbitrary, it's based on some...

Paul July 5, 2026

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The Blades They Rode In On (Part 4)

You may recall that a while back (a whole year, basically--eek!), I had the idea to try out the razors I had with the blades they came with. The point was to see if those blades presented the best shave possible from those razors. And for the most part, they did...

Paul May 24, 2026

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Some Shave Planning Notes

I just wanted to drop a quick post explaining one of the quirks that happens sometimes when planning my shaves, and how it manifests itself in the next two months (8 weeks) of shaves. In my run-up to my 300th shave, I really concentrated on a longer-term plan for upcoming shaves....

Paul May 5, 2026

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The Green Shaves

C.O. Bigelow shaving cream This didn't start out as a planned theme week. I really wanted to compare the Proraso Refreshing (green) shaving cream with the C.O. Bigelow Premium shaving cream in two shaves over the course of a week. C.O. Bigelow is the US importer of Proraso products, and handle...

Paul April 26, 2026

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The Mühle R89 Review

I know what I said in The State of the Shave of the Day post at the end of the year, as I listed out the razors I was thinking I'd be getting in 2026. And none of them were a Mühle. The R89 in the box. Yet to be unboxed....

Paul February 19, 2026