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Posted by Colin on 10/9/2007, 18:50:49, in reply to "Re: Even with the Fusion?" As Gunny says, it's all a matter of personal priorities. For me, the smooth look and feel were important enough to be worth dealing with the occasional nick and learning how to prevent it. If you're not so in love with slick bald, then ease and safety correctly take a higher priority. I wasn't criticizing Gunny's priorities. I just wondered if he might have let one razor scare him off from another. Even though the HeadBlade's designed to prevent nicks by reducing the force on the blade, I can see how it would make it easy to turn a small nick into a major gash if you don't happen to think exactly the way the designer did, since you're pushing rather than pulling. I wonder if a combination of the HeadBlade's roller movement and the Fusion's drag action might give you the best of both. I'll have to see if HeadBlade comes out with adapters for the Mach 3 and Fusion before the next time I shave my head (hopefully not another 17 years off!).
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It's the placement of the pivot. With the regular old center-pivoting heads, you've got blades against skin ready to slice at any slight sideways motion. My preferred razor, the SuperMax 3, was particularly bad in this respect because its blades are set at a steeper angle than most. With the end-pivoting heads like the Mach 3 and Fusion, the blades never touch skin unless you're actually pulling forward on them--or you're holding the handle almost straight out from your head, I guess.
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