{"id":57231,"date":"2013-05-18T03:05:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T03:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/57231\/"},"modified":"2013-05-18T03:05:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T03:05:01","slug":"4-of-5-in-a-series-on-single-edge-razors-the-micromatic-open-comb-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/57231\/","title":{"rendered":"4 of 5 in a Series on Single Edge Razors &#8211; The MicroMatic Open Comb Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/si4nW5nRf2M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOriginally posted Mar 29, 2013 on the Facebook Group The Big Shave https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/thebigshave\/<\/p>\n<p>SOTD Good Friday March 29th (my father would have been 89 today)<\/p>\n<p>Saga of the Single Edge Razors Episode 4 of 5<\/p>\n<p>The Gem MicroMatic Open Comb &#8211; Possibly the most aggressive SE Razor<br \/>\nGem Personna SS Coated Blade (4th shave)<br \/>\nOmega 4p Professional Boars Hair Brush<br \/>\nVan Der Hagen Deluxe Soap with menthol infused glycerin added<br \/>\nHomemade Pre Shave Oil and Equate Cleansing Cream with Eucalyptus Oil<br \/>\nWitch Hazel with menthol<\/p>\n<p>DFS but no where near BBS. 3+ passes and still needed work. I think either my beard was too tough due to no pre shave shower or the blade just lost it&#8217;s sharpness during the 4th shave. It wasn&#8217;t tuggy but just not efficient.<\/p>\n<p>The video is 20 minutes long. My camera stopped at 20 minutes which I later found out is the limit of videos uploaded to FB. I recorded another 3 minutes closing but I won&#8217;t post that part. The shave was essentially over. I was just being too wordy about SE shaving today&#8230;sorry. My camera doesn&#8217;t have a time readout so I will need to rig some kind of timer to keep track of it in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you have enjoyed this series of SE shave videos as much as I have enjoyed doing them. I have learned a lot doing them back to back and comparing my different razors.<\/p>\n<p>The final chapter will be later this weekend using the classic Gem 1912 with a new carbon steel uncoated blade. They haven&#8217;t worked well for me in the past, but it&#8217;s been several months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted Mar 29, 2013 on the Facebook Group The Big Shave https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/thebigshave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2755],"tags":[2780,73216,73221,73223,1639,48947,73224,5839,18109,73220,73222,73217,1640,73219,18108,73218,3201],"class_list":{"0":"post-57231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-body-care","8":"tag-body-soap","9":"tag-gem-micromatic-open-comb","10":"tag-gem-personna-ss-coated-blade","11":"tag-homemade-pre-shave-oil","12":"tag-how","13":"tag-razor","14":"tag-safety-razors","15":"tag-shave","16":"tag-shaving","17":"tag-single-edge-razor","18":"tag-single-edge-shaving","19":"tag-the-big-shave","20":"tag-to","21":"tag-traditional-wet-shaving","22":"tag-wet-shaving","23":"tag-witch-hazel-with-menthol","24":"tag-3201"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}