{"id":8371,"date":"2016-10-11T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2016-10-09T10:53:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T14:53:32","slug":"how-to-load-a-razor-blade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/how-to-load-a-razor-blade\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Load a Razor Blade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CcebrnrvY2M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Razor blades are sharp. You need to handle them carefully.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, a safety razor allows you to use a razor blade safely and efficiently. However, for the first-time user, loading a blade can be bit daunting and intimidating.<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly safety razors are the easiest to load. \u00a0Just twist the bottom of the handle, the double doors on top of the razor head open, drop in a blade, twist to close, and you&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<p>A three-piece razor is just a bit more involved. \u00a0In the above video, I show how I load a blade. \u00a0I&#8217;m using my<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/deshaving-20\/detail\/B019QLSRT4\"> Vikings Blade Godfather razor.<\/a> \u00a0It&#8217;s a terrific razor and has quickly become my favorite to use. \u00a0Once the blade is loaded in <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/deshaving-20\/detail\/B019QLSRT4\">The Godfather<\/a>, it&#8217;s always perfectly aligned!<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer to use a butterfly razor (when I first started to wet shave, a butterfly razor was the first kind I used), then I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/deshaving-20\/detail\/B011L8WJIA\">The Chieftain by Vikings Blade.<\/a>\u00a0 (When I finally came back to wet shaving with a safety razor, <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/deshaving-20\/detail\/B011L8WJIA\">this is the first one I bought.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/deshaving-20?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=12\">Both razors <\/a>are precision shaving tools and sold at an affordable price! \u00a0They are very well-made and crafted using premium materials. \u00a0And they both have an International lifetime warranty against manufacturer defects. \u00a0Most importantly, they give you a close and comfortable shave without nicks, cuts, razor burn, or irritation. \u00a0I love mine!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=georgetoon-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B019QLSRT4&amp;asins=B019QLSRT4&amp;linkId=f83ca952a134b910d012d8726658e390&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Razor blades are sharp. You need to handle them carefully. Luckily, a safety razor allows you to use a razor blade safely and efficiently. However, for the first-time user, loading a blade can be bit daunting and intimidating. Butterfly safety razors are the easiest to load. \u00a0Just twist the bottom of the handle, the double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1467],"tags":[1376,1501,1361,1360,1431,1425,1502,1363,1399,1393],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-wet-shaving","tag-de-shaving","tag-loading-a-razor-blade","tag-safety-razor","tag-shaving","tag-the-chieftain-razor","tag-the-godfather-razor","tag-three-piece-razor","tag-vikings-blade","tag-vikings-blade-razor","tag-wet-shaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8373,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions\/8373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}