DOUBLE EDGED BLADES

GOLDCREST

GOLDCREST

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How many makes/types of DE blades are currently available?...does anyone know?

I'm just curious..as when I first started DE shaving in the 60's..(That was the first time round)....all that seemed to be available in the local area were..Gillette.....Wilkinson sword....or Jewel....there obviously were others...but the world was a smaller place in those days.....

Then along comes the internet and there are literally dozens of different blades available..

Makes me wonder how I managed for so long without Feathers and Gillette yellows.
 
To give some perspective I personally have tried all of the following (only a handful of which are vintage):
ASCO Stainless
Astra Keramik
Astra Superior Platinum
Astra Superior Stainless
BIC Chrome
Big Ben Super Stainless
Bluebird Hi Stainless
Bolsano Super Inox
Croma Diamant
Crown Super Stainless
Crystal IP
Derby
Dorco 300
Dorco 301
Elios Inoxidable
Feather New Hi Stainless
Gillette 365
Gillette Seven O'Clock Super Stainless (Russian)
Gillette Nacet
Gillette Nacet Platinum
Gillette Seven O'Clock Super Platinum
Gillette Seven O'Clock Sharp Edge
Gillette Bleue (40s NOS)
Gillette Bleue (80s NOS)
Gillette Bleue (in production: French)
Gillette "Swede"
Gillette Superthin (black flash)
Gillette Superthin Platinum
Gillette Platinum
Gillette Goal
Iridium Super
Jewel Super Stainless
Kai -
Laser Platinum (French)
Laser Super Stainless (Indian, green)
Leningrad
Lord Cool
Lord Platinum
Lord Super
Lord Classic
Lord Super Chrome
Merkur
Permasharp Super
Personna Red
Personna Israeli (unbranded)
Racer Stainless
Rapira
Rapira Swedish Super Steel
Rapira Platinum Lux
Seven AM Platinum
Shark Super Stainless
Sharp Stainless
Silver Star Stainless
Sputnik Teflon
Supermax Super Stainless
Tiger Stainless
Timor Solingen
Topaz Platinum
Treet Classic
Treet Durasharp (Carbon black)
Treet Durasharp (Silver stainless)
Treet Platinum
Trig Silver
Voskhod Teflon
Wilkinson Sword Silver & Blue (Gillette made, Indian)
Wilkinson Sword White (England)
Wilkinson Sword White (Germany) Gold 5
Wilkinson Sword White (Germany) Classic
Xpom (aka Wodx) Chrome. Branded Sputnik on blades but not on box
Zorrik

There are also Panda, King, Supermax Platinum, Rainbow, and many, many other blades still being produced. And probably thousands of vintage ones.
 
NotTheStig said:
To give some perspective I personally have tried all of the following (only a handful of which are vintage):
ASCO Stainless
Astra Keramik
Astra Superior Platinum
Astra Superior Stainless
BIC Chrome
Big Ben Super Stainless
Bluebird Hi Stainless
Bolsano Super Inox
Croma Diamant
Crown Super Stainless
Crystal IP
Derby
Dorco 300
Dorco 301
Elios Inoxidable
Feather New Hi Stainless
Gillette 365
Gillette Seven O'Clock Super Stainless (Russian)
Gillette Nacet
Gillette Nacet Platinum
Gillette Seven O'Clock Super Platinum
Gillette Seven O'Clock Sharp Edge
Gillette Bleue (40s NOS)
Gillette Bleue (80s NOS)
Gillette Bleue (in production: French)
Gillette "Swede"
Gillette Superthin (black flash)
Gillette Superthin Platinum
Gillette Platinum
Gillette Goal
Iridium Super
Jewel Super Stainless
Kai -
Laser Platinum (French)
Laser Super Stainless (Indian, green)
Leningrad
Lord Cool
Lord Platinum
Lord Super
Lord Classic
Lord Super Chrome
Merkur
Permasharp Super
Personna Red
Personna Israeli (unbranded)
Racer Stainless
Rapira
Rapira Swedish Super Steel
Rapira Platinum Lux
Seven AM Platinum
Shark Super Stainless
Sharp Stainless
Silver Star Stainless
Sputnik Teflon
Supermax Super Stainless
Tiger Stainless
Timor Solingen
Topaz Platinum
Treet Classic
Treet Durasharp (Carbon black)
Treet Durasharp (Silver stainless)
Treet Platinum
Trig Silver
Voskhod Teflon
Wilkinson Sword Silver & Blue (Gillette made, Indian)
Wilkinson Sword White (England)
Wilkinson Sword White (Germany) Gold 5
Wilkinson Sword White (Germany) Classic
Xpom (aka Wodx) Chrome. Branded Sputnik on blades but not on box
Zorrik

There are also Panda, King, Supermax Platinum, Rainbow, and many, many other blades still being produced. And probably thousands of vintage ones.
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Which ones do you rate?
 
Garbe said:
NotTheStig said:
To give some perspective I personally have tried all of the following (only a handful of which are vintage):
ASCO Stainless
Astra Keramik
Astra Superior Platinum
Astra Superior Stainless
BIC Chrome
Big Ben Super Stainless
Bluebird Hi Stainless
Bolsano Super Inox
Croma Diamant
Crown Super Stainless
Crystal IP
Derby
Dorco 300
Dorco 301
Elios Inoxidable
Feather New Hi Stainless
Gillette 365
Gillette Seven O'Clock Super Stainless (Russian)
Gillette Nacet
Gillette Nacet Platinum
Gillette Seven O'Clock Super Platinum
Gillette Seven O'Clock Sharp Edge
Gillette Bleue (40s NOS)
Gillette Bleue (80s NOS)
Gillette Bleue (in production: French)
Gillette "Swede"
Gillette Superthin (black flash)
Gillette Superthin Platinum
Gillette Platinum
Gillette Goal
Iridium Super
Jewel Super Stainless
Kai -
Laser Platinum (French)
Laser Super Stainless (Indian, green)
Leningrad
Lord Cool
Lord Platinum
Lord Super
Lord Classic
Lord Super Chrome
Merkur
Permasharp Super
Personna Red
Personna Israeli (unbranded)
Racer Stainless
Rapira
Rapira Swedish Super Steel
Rapira Platinum Lux
Seven AM Platinum
Shark Super Stainless
Sharp Stainless
Silver Star Stainless
Sputnik Teflon
Supermax Super Stainless
Tiger Stainless
Timor Solingen
Topaz Platinum
Treet Classic
Treet Durasharp (Carbon black)
Treet Durasharp (Silver stainless)
Treet Platinum
Trig Silver
Voskhod Teflon
Wilkinson Sword Silver & Blue (Gillette made, Indian)
Wilkinson Sword White (England)
Wilkinson Sword White (Germany) Gold 5
Wilkinson Sword White (Germany) Classic
Xpom (aka Wodx) Chrome. Branded Sputnik on blades but not on box
Zorrik

There are also Panda, King, Supermax Platinum, Rainbow, and many, many other blades still being produced. And probably thousands of vintage ones.
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Which ones do you rate?
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I love it when you have to scroll through a thread.
 
I wonder what would happen to our hobby if a shaving craze were to take off in India and China? I'm sure that someone is thinking right now how to get it started!
 
GOLDCREST said:
Then along comes the internet and there are literally dozens of different blades available..
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But are they all different blades at all? Just like recordable optical media there are loads of different brands but only a handfull of manufacturers. Are we comparing rebranded but in actual fact identical blades with each other? Do we really have a such a wide choice? Who has the inside knowlegde? :huh:
 
I rate most Gillettes, Lords, Feather and Rapira. Don't know how many are truly different; how many different manufacturing plants are there in India, Russia, Egypt, China...
 
Thats quite a selection NTS...looks as though I have quite a few to go yet then...Some of those I've never even heard of.....

Strikes me as strange, that Gillette for all their multi bade Razor marketing..still make some of the best/most popular blades..IMO............... after my favourite Feather of course...

Could we do with a list of blades on here with user grading and star ratings??....What do you think?....not sure how it would work ........but is it possible.....Or is there one already that I haven't found yet?
 
GOLDCREST said:
Could we do with a list of blades on here with user grading and star ratings??....What do you think?....not sure how it would work ........but is it possible.....Or is there one already that I haven't found yet?
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Impossible. One man's Derby is another man's Feather.


Johnus said:
I'm sure that someone is thinking right now how to get it started!
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Oh yes, I'm sure Gi/////ette is working hard at getting those booming economies convinced of the "benefits" of the next generation of multiple blade cartridges. :icon_rolleyes:
 
GOLDCREST said:
Could we do with a list of blades on here with user grading and star ratings??....What do you think?....not sure how it would work ........but is it possible.....Or is there one already that I haven't found yet?
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I put together a spreadsheet with my findings (it's where I got the above list) but there was a lack of interest because,as Treb said, different people like different ones. I mainly use it to remind myself which of the more obscure ones were good! If you are interested, though, it's here but I haven't kept it up to date: http://www.theshavingroom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=3950

It's also important to note that different blades work better in some razors than in others - something which would take me too long to document for myself, although I put the best and worst combos in another document I keep.
I am so anal.

Edit: You could always use the spreadhseet as a template for your own findings.
 
Thanks for that NTS...i've finally managed to get a look at your document....I'm not the most computer literate person you'll ever meet so it took me a while,but I got there in the end......

I will have a look at it in depth later....It looks to be very thorough and very useful,I'll see if I can add my own humble findings from my old fashioned "notebook"........................... fascinating stuff this shaving.

You're right of course...blades do behave differently in different razors ...add to that the possible soap combinations...and the possibilities are infinite..........

Thanks again.
 
GOLDCREST said:
Thanks for that NTS...i've finally managed to get a look at your document....I'm not the most computer literate person you'll ever meet so it took me a while,but I got there in the end......

I will have a look at it in depth later....It looks to be very thorough and very useful,I'll see if I can add my own humble findings from my old fashioned "notebook"........................... fascinating stuff this shaving.

You're right of course...blades do behave differently in different razors ...add to that the possible soap combinations...and the possibilities are infinite..........

Thanks again.
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No problem. Glad it may be of use to you!
I'm keen on computers but I can't keep up with the pace of technology so I wouldn't feel behind if I were you - giving it a try is the most important.
Looking back on it now it could seem a bit involved. The scores in each category you key in yourself then the total score for the blade is calculated.
 
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