Edwin Jagger’s new Loxley razor is gorgeous. After breaking my third E.J. Chatsworth, I thought that perhaps the Loxley, with its reinforced neck, might be more resistant to breakage when dropped.
This is a beautiful razor (Oops, I said that already!). It does have an important deficiency for me though, and that is its length. The Loxley is about one centimeter shorter than the Chatsworth, just a shade too short to be held properly with all my fingers. The pinky sticks out like some fastidious English tea drinker holding his cup in one hand while eating a crustless cucumber sandwich with the other.
Too bad….this is one beautiful razor otherwise (Oops, there I go again!).
Discovered this blog a couple weeks ago. This is my first comment. I’m torn between the Loxley and the Chatsworth, and yours is the first write-up I’ve found about the former. So I now understand why it weights a few grams less than the Chatsworth: it’s shorter! This is not the first post you’ve made regarding dropping/breaking your Chatsworth. Do you find it easy to drop, or were they “freak” accidents?
By: GregPQ on March 26, 2008
at 4:19 pm
The Chatsworth is wonderful, my all-time favorite razor. The ergonomics are superb. The length is perfection as it allows all five fingers to control the razor. The resin finish, however, is very smooth and in the shower with soapy wet hands, particularly vulnerable to dropping. When it drops, rather than land vertically on its head as it were, there is something about the weight balance that makes it land flat. This flat landing inevitably results in a snapped razor, always breaking at exactly the same point right at the neck where the metal insert meets the plastic resin. I have broken three so far, and if my last one breaks I will probably replace it with the metal ribbed one. If I were you I would, IMHO, consider the few extra bucks and go “full metal” Chatsworth.
By: Steve on March 26, 2008
at 4:30 pm