What's the smoothest?

[SirPrize]

I would invite nominations for the smoothest available blade - nothing exotic or hard to find.
Also I am not concerned with price or sharpness - I enjoy my shave and don't mind an extra pass or bit of polishing here or there.
So there you have it - what is the "The old smoothie - the Leslie Phillips, the positive Alan Whicker" of blades?

 

[ultrawomble]

Dorco ST301 - certainly not the sharpest, but certainly the smoothest blade I've tried.

 

[ChopperHarris]

Rapira Super Stainless in the pink and blue wrappers (easy to find off ebay) give me my smoothest shave. They are pretty sharp, too, but effortless in a DE89.

 

[NotTheStig]

Rapira Swedish Super Steel, especially in a 7 o'clock long comb New.

 

[zygalski]

I've tried quite a few blades & at the moment I'd say Personna Platinum Chromes are the smoothest.

 

[majortom]

I've tried every blade from the good to the bad to the ugly. Some, like the Rapiras and Personnas previously mentioned are good, but sometimes you come across a pack that are a bit "iffy". For absolute smoothness and consistency I go for Voskhods
closely followed by Sputniks.

 

[Helveticum]

Got to be Astra.
Sputniks would've been up as well, but in my experience batches may differ.

 

[zygalski]

Ironically I got really terrible bumps using Astra SP's & Voskhods, to the point I thought I was allergic to them!

 

[SmallBeard]

For me it's probably the gillette nacets, absolutely great for me.

 

[Denzle]

I'm with majortom on this one, just loving the Russian blades at the minute.

 

[chrisbell]

Slightly left-field choice for me - Wilkinson Sword/Gillette Indian blades - the "Saloon Pack" ones. As with ultrawomble's nomination, they're not especially sharp, but seem very smooth and forgiving. I'd also nominate Perma-Sharps (gold and red pack, not Gillette greens).

 

[Louis]

Slightly left-field choice for me - Wilkinson Sword/Gillette Indian blades - the "Saloon Pack" ones. As with ultrawomble's nomination, they're not especially sharp, but seem very smooth and forgiving. I'd also nominate Perma-Sharps (gold and red pack, not Gillette greens).

+1 on the Wilkinson/Gillette blades. These are consistently very smooth for me.

 

[ChopperHarris]

Slightly left-field choice for me - Wilkinson Sword/Gillette Indian blades - the "Saloon Pack" ones. As with ultrawomble's nomination, they're not especially sharp, but seem very smooth and forgiving. I'd also nominate Perma-Sharps (gold and red pack, not Gillette greens).

The saloon pack nomination really shows how it's horses for courses. I get about half a smooth shave out of mine before they turn into rough peelers of skin I'll have a look and see how many I've got to hand - if there's more than a couple, you're welcome to them.

 

[salesman]

Treet Platinum for me.

 

[SamuraiJack]

Voskhods and sputniks are smooth for me followed by perma sharp

 

[Neilo]

+1 for the Personna reds, smooth and sharp, great with the Muhle R89 razor.