Welcome to WetShaving Lemmy community! This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

  • Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
  • Favorite scents, bases, etc
  • Where to buy certain items
  • Identification of a razor you just bought
  • Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

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    • waldenMA
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      10 months ago

      3 is my normal go-to, but recently I’ve been using 4. I think the blade has a lot to do with it. I’m using a Personna 74 with 20+ shaves on it, and it’s a very smooth blade at this point. When it was new, setting 2 or 3 would have been a better choice.

      • sgrdddy
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        10 months ago

        The Pers 74 I tried was a totally different type of blade than any of my modern ones, after maybe 15 uses. It operated by a different set of rules.

        Of course, later I would find that it had a defect: that the center holes were not drilled exactly center.

        • waldenMA
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          10 months ago

          Interesting! This one seems well centered. I used a fresh Rapira today, and can’t wait to go back to the 74 haha!

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            10 months ago

            Yeah, I’m sure mine was an exception.