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I still have not had a hassle free awesome shave with it yet. Close to giving up on it as a 'just did not work for me' deal.

I am making (the recipie I posted) tonight, but these folks that are coming over to my joint have not a curry like this before so I will probably tone it down a bit (I tend to cook more by taste than by aboslute measure in a recipie), so will probably do more yoghurt and less pepper, we'll see...

My wife loves her lady gillette blue star version but she has not used any of my other razors to know to compare it.

here is my own family recipie for tikka masala ts - teaspoon tblsp - table spoon 1 cup plain yoghurt 1 tbls lemon juice 2 ts ground cumin 2 ts ground corriander 2 ts black pepper 1 ts cinnamon 1 ts salt 1 tblsp unsalted butter 3 garlic cloves mashed or 3 ts minced garlic 1 ts paprika 1 ts garam masa...

I make a real nice chicken tikka masala that my wife often complains its too spicy but I love it.

One of its key ingrediants is yoghurt, but I make my own yoghurt so it would probably taste different if you use store bought...

I'll see if I can find my handwritten recipie when I go home from work.

My grandfather had a couple of injectors and a slime adjustable. I have the adjustable, but never bothered with the injectors.

Plymouth, Magellan, Quintessential. May or may not be common/easy to obtain.

Tanqueray Ten, a step up from the basic...

hail the juniper berry!

yohannrjm, I got the extended tech handle. It doesnt feel all that heavier than my custom cooncat bob handle that I have on my tech. I'll often shave with my 55 diplomat, ranger tech or slim adj on #4 and have no problems, and they are all much more aggressive than my tech. I'll switch handles on th...

nice, i want a 620. nearly got a 520 but the release of the 620 was so close but dpreview took an eaon to do a review and I was not going to buy until my fav DP site completed a thorough review...

hinting to the wife as a xmas pressie!

have fun with the oly

Have company coming over so I did a rare thing, shaved on a saturday :) I tried a Kai in the ikon, weird, the centre post hole in the kai does not quite fit the ikon post, the two studs are fine but the centre post is tighter than other blades. Half way through I switched to the same blade in the te...

This razor is not really that aggressive but you are not used to it so it feels like hell. But did it do its job and give you a great shave? yes I would say it was my technique as the first open comb razor I have used. Every other razor I have has a safety bar and the technique didnt change. The op...

I'd suggest keeping a written log, a little notebook so you can write down your findings for each blade since thats a lot to track and depending on how long you have been wet shaving if you can keep em straight in your head which ones you rank above what etc

Well, tried out my ikon razor tonight. I have never used an open comb razor. Wow this thing was aggressive. It makes it very interesting to see how I use the safety bar on the tech vs this and the change required in technique.

nb. the bluebird shaved identically to the derby.

Very nice looking hat! I've been shopping around for a nice hat, I'm SO done with seeing a great looking hat and its being sold to me as 'crushable'. aargh.

hope you get a good shave, I've not so far, kind glad I only have two packages of them (10 blades)

got my ikon with extended tech handle tonight. the handle is quite impressive, the head is shiny, there were some tooling marks on the baseplate but when the razor is put together you dont see that.

can't wait to test it out

yes, they were super chrome.

didnt realise until you asked

hmm I guess these sharks are completely different to the stainless ones.

Tried a shark last night. Mine came in a white disposable plastic box rather than the cardboard box in squires review. So tried it off with the weekend stubble removal, wow, lots of tugging and pulling. Didn't seem to hold up. Junked it after 1 shave. Will try one more time but so far, not liking th...

mm homebrew! I am making sake right now. I have molded my rice (Kome-koji) with koji spore. Tonight or tomorrow I'll start the initial fermentation (the moto). Takes like 6-8 weeks before I can get it into a drinkable state. My biggest hurdle to come is sitrring the slurry while at work.. hmm and ke...

Squire, do you have any coming? I dont mind sending some. PM me if you want an unopened box or more.