0:00 [Music] hey everyone Matt pasaric from Razer emporium.com coming at you today for another shave review video we are going to be looking at some of the new blades at Razer Emporium featuring 1988 the latest and greatest from Rex with that being said let's get started I'm going to take it from right there because I actually want to again reiterate how amazing the Rex 1988 soap is this is the latest and greatest like I said it is everything 1980s as my famous joke goes this is like Don Johnson is rolling down
0:45 the streets of Miami listening to Prince and there's some purple rain outside and it is a good day I'm going to start by just kind of doing a little distribution and we're going to do a little scrubby scrub and build this into a beautiful s Santa Claus lather I'm excited also to be back I'm back in the saddle again everybody I am shaving again we took the month of December off I grew my nice big Santa Claus beard everyone was sad to see it Go most especially my children my wife my employees my friends my followers everybody really honestly but you know as I said I do run a shaving company and occasionally I have to to shave so
1:31 that's what we're doing 88 has got an Amber and musk uh smell going on I'm sure there's some other notes I'm missing but you just got to try it you got to try it it it was been selling like hot cakes and that's what you're going for see that cush right there it should look like whipped cream we are going to be doing one of the most famous segments in razor and PR history we've done this I think three or four other times and it always coincides when we get new blades in the store and it's been a been a little minute since we've done this these are the new blades at Razer Emporium and um I'm always amazed I tell my my staff that I can't believe how many blades we sell uh it started off you know carrying five then seven
2:17 then 12 I mean it's just keep and I think we're up to like 40 or 50 different kinds of blades and they all sell and you know so we we kind of have a little tradition of doing a blade aggressiveness rating and we use one for really blades and five for really super aggressive blades and to date I still like to always say there's only one five blade and that's feather because if I was to somehow put another blade in front of feather I think everyone out there in YouTube land and the Shaving Community would string me up and kill me because you can't ever say there's a blade that's not as sharp as feather feather is the sharpest that's it okay and in keeping with tradition we'll be using a Gillette fat handle Tech now this is a 40s fat fat handle Tech you're going to probably say Matt why is it
3:03 black like this the fat handle Tech was originally nickel plated and I say well we did a little failed experiment of powder coating and I say failed because if you if you look at this you're going to see the guard has got some nickel showing through and this is why powder coating is not a good option so this was uh me being the guinea pig and taking this home and using it and exactly like I thought all right so we're just going to jump right in and we're going to get started and the tradition with this and I will you tell me your hate in the comments all you want but this is the tradition is I give it what I call the one stroke Challenge and that just means that I'm not going to obviously I have to do I have what one 2 3 4 five six I have
3:48 seven blades here I can't obviously do an entire shave with seven blades I'm going to have to do one or two strokes with each one and move on and this is what I call like the ini assessment this is not me using the blade for 3 months and telling you my deep dark secret feelings about it this is my gut you know just visceral feeling about what it feels like and I'm always going to compare it to the feather as a five or I think we I can't remember I think we made the the bck was like the three or four I mean or I should say two or three I'm going to kind of go off of like the middle point and like is it is it more aggressive or less aggressive than like the midpoint of three starting with this guy this is called a 7 a.m. High Platinum durable I don't know where it's
4:34 made it says Swiss quality that's cool doesn't say where it's made on here we'll put it in the description it's technical collaboration from Switzerland whatever that means okay great I doubt it's Swiss made I mean Swiss steel is very ubiquitous it's like it's what everything is is made with Swiss steel I think my lather is looking pretty good maybe a quick little refresh the problem with these videos is I sit here and blab and the lather dries up and I'm I I don't have great lather to begin with because I didn't just pop out of the shower that being said the 7:00 a.m. let's give it a couple shots see how it does hey that's actually really nice I'm surprised because it's not one
5:20 I've ever used before I'm going to give that a solid four like I could do an entire shave easily with that that a nice blade I may I'm instantly thinking of changing up our sample packs cuz that could be in like the sensitive skin sample pack we're going to move right along over to Big Ben this is made in Egypt this is made by Lord so if you're familiar with Lord um that's what this story is guys a lot of these uh big factories they have multiple lines running on them now what those lines represent I couldn't tell you um I would love it if somebody who works in a blade Factory you know I'm sure the last thing they want to do when they're done working in a blade Factory is go watch people shave on on YouTube videos maybe they do but if you do work in a blade Factory tell me exactly why
6:06 there's different lines and how they delineate the different lines this is the Big Bend super stainless yeah see uh slightly less nice than that 7 a so there you go so I was at four with the 7 a I'm going to go to three and a half with this guy and it's just that relative thing again if you were to use them for week on end you're going to have a way better assessment um but I always tell people like if you get a sample pack of blades just do what I'm doing give it a couple you know uh Strokes do not try to do an entire shave with a blade that's miserable don't get yourself cut up because you don't want to like you know waste the 15 cents for the blade just be like yep Noe that wasn't for me it's like when you get a sample pack of beer
6:51 or wine and somebody gives you that sour beer for some reason and you're like why am I drinking a sour beer you know or a rosé wine you're like what am I drinking Hawaiian Punch here I don't know okay next up is the treat classic double edge okay and tree Classic this is a carbon steel blade so little different than stainless steel all right I can already tell it's got a heavier feel to it we're loading it back in the fat handle Tech it's fat all right pretty hot and techy get it all right yeah see that's even more tuggy no I'm to stick with three and a half on
7:38 that guy he was pretty similar to the Big Ben moving right along I know this is this is like rapid fire guys it's like Jeopardy time rapid fire we are going to go over to the asor asor by Bick and this guy is made in grease yeah greasy if you live in Greece have you been to the big Factory that's like what I would do if there was a blade Factory near me I would go tour it I'd ask him all the questions this is the asor sounds like someone's name asor get over here asor I maybe could like name a dog that or something I
8:23 don't know okay let's give this one a shot that's the roughest one so far yeah I give it a three I'm trying to find the one that I really like I may go back to the 7: a.m. to clean up the rest of the shave okay and we got the Parker now I happen to have inside Intel and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to say it I know where these are made I know who makes them I know who your daddy is I know what he does who's your Daddy what does he I know who makes the Parker and I I was I was told by the owner of Parker himself who he you know
9:09 contracted out it's just like the Rex blades like yeah these are offset over here you know no we don't have a blade Factory we contracted that out and Parker doesn't have a blade Factory either they contracted that out okay two and a half yep sorry Howe no it you know again and the thing is I have a a thick beard I have heavy stubble you know I'm not I'm not the the case for the average shaver I'm like the above average shaver when it comes to like challenges fact that's why you're watching this Channel right now is because I had so many sh shaving challenges as a young young shaver back
9:55 when I was like 18 192 like learning how to shave you know I had the same challenges you guys are having uh my dad I've said this story many times my dad was electric shaver he's walking around the house at night locking the doors in his underwear and T-shirt with electric shaver yeah this one's good hey get to bed kid so I thought that's how you shave so I started doing that in my apartment by myself just walking around at night locking the door screaming at people apparently that's not how you shave this one's not too bad I got this a three this was the I was blabbing right through this is the uh this is the Persona these are the german-made personas uh the platinums the little blue label we just got those in literally yesterday we opened the box and I was
10:41 like bam and the one I'm actually really curious to try is the last one of my list and I'm going to finish up with my favorite one here which I so far I'm going to go right go back to that 7: a.m. so I was out there looking for a better way to shave and you know I got the whole double edge thing and that's why you're watching this Channel today cuz I had I had a St you know tricky beer you know easy to ingrown easy to get you know uh irritation we got last but not least now this is kind of a confusing moniker this is Gillette Wilkinson Sword what you say that's like a a Chevy Ford or a Mercedes BMW these are two different names in my mind These Are Made in India um let's give it a shot because Wilkinson Sword does have their own line
11:26 of blades and obviously Gillette has its own line of blades and and I thought they were competitors cuz I thought Wilkinson Sword the rights to that was owned by edgewell I give that three and a half as well I'm I'm going to do my little you know final cleanup and get everything done and nice with the 7 a.m. that was still my favorite of all the ones we shot today and now my fantastic staff can put the little blade mark works next to these blades on the website and on our sample packs and speaking of sample packs that's one reason we do this guys do a quick Rel lather and just kind of do a real quick touchup finish up as I'm
12:11 blabbing at you the sample packs we do are curtailed they're tailored they're not just us throwing blades together we're going to have a sample pack that's very targeted like the favorite one we like to sell to new beginners is the beginner pack it's got blades that are twos two and 1/2s three three and halfs four four and 1/2 five even a feather okay so you really can see the full gamut of what's possible in the world of Shaving all right then we have more targeted ones like oh a mild pack this is really nice I might have to take some home like I don't have enough blades at home we have stuff like a mild pack that's going to be like all the two 2 and 1/2 threes we have aggressive pack that's like all the four four and A2 fives right we have like the top 10 like Matt's favorite top 10 blades I'm going to take these
12:57 sideburns up a little bit too it's not 70s anymore we have very specific packs I think we even have a a Gillette pack cuz Gillette has so many different blades but it's a difference between buying stuff from Razor Emporium and off of Amazon first off you're supporting an actual wet shaving company but second you are getting like targeted information people like me do stuff like this that homework and figure it out for you so that you open up a sample pack and have like a map we have these little pieces of paper that come inside them and these little blade markers and this is how we figured them out now you can come back and say oh that wasn't the most scientific method ever I have seen people do scientific things where they
13:43 have like these special little devices they sit on the table and you put a hair across it and you put the blade and it like comes down like a axe or like gillotin and like it sees how much force is needed to cut a hair okay that's really cool but guess what what how how does it feel for you like how does it how does how are you experiencing is it like gliding is it pulling and tugging who cares if it like theoretically should be the sharpest what if it's like the most comfortable that's like going into a shoe store and being like well I heard this brand of shoes is supposed to be the best for art support but then you try it on and you hate it it doesn't matter like the theoretical it matters about the Practical and in this world it's all about the practical it's about
14:29 the experimential it's about what works best for you and we want to be part of that Journey that's why we are here for you guys and that's why we appreciate you supporting us in the wet shaving world I think I'm pretty good I really like that 7 a.m. I am really blown away I'm going to have to figure out who's making it what's the secret sauce that's like the Big Mac sauce on that like I would put that up there with some of the um Gillette platinums uh or or um Banos uh the Persona Reds I mean even like the Rex that's like a Rex quality blade I mean it's nice and that's how unbiased I am I can tell you that's that's a really good blade I'm happy about that um that is what I got things are
15:17 looking smooth things are looking good I'm going to finish up with of course the 1988 Splash Blast from the Past over here getting your Dore get your aviators on watch some Ferris spielers day off and splash some 1988 up in here woo feels good got a hankering to watch Terminator 2 I think they came out 1994 what's another movie Rambo woo wow you know I used to not like splashes I was like a balm guy but now I have come to love the splash go it's made with love at razor Emporium see that beautiful purple color people
16:03 with Talent figure that color out look at that that is all I got I hope you like my rapid approach to trying out blades obviously I would probably go back and use them more and really get to know him if I you know wanted to dive in but this is just for entertainment purposes only right um if you think my ratings were so far off tell me below which ones you thought I was off on what would you give them as a rating and if you do leave a comment you're entered into in this the official Razer emporeum black and blue t-shirt that's all I got today guys please like this video if you liked it subscribe to our Channel if you're not already doing it uh share this video with someone who needs to see it and we'll see you next time at Razer and PO for all things vintage shaving thanks guys
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