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Looking at getting myself some vintage blades
is there any that you wouldn’t recommend or after a certain age ?
i’m willing to try anything really
within reason
+1 to this.In the days that every chemist was selling DE I used to acquire a tack of ten Perma Aharps that lasted up to three or four month, but as above it was dear in the same way that current Gillette carts are.
Despite this I think that the current Russian Gillette blades are few leagues over what we had in the 70's and are sharper, last as long and god how cheap they are compare to anything I used to buy then. I think the urge to use vintage blades is 90% nostalgic tbh.
Good right up mate.I shaved with a Russian PermaSharp blade this morning and had a really great shave. I like using the old blades as well as the new blades. It’s not 90% nostalgia because if they weren’t excellent blades I would just gaze at them fondly and never use them. But I also agree with so much of what has been said. The price stamp on my mid 70s Platinum Plus packs of 10 blades is $1.89 which is about $10 in today’s money. So that makes today’s Russian blades fantastic value for money and the best of them are truly great blades. But then I bought most of my old blades at car boot sales and the like so they were also as cheap as.
The only way to find out whether you‘re one of the people who thinks the best blades of the past deserve at least a bit of their mythical status or whether you’re one of those people who think it’s just a load of self serving cobblers is to try them.
But actually if some old fart gets a lift to his or her morning by shaving with a razor and blade from their teenage years I find that a warm and happy thought.
Some nice vintage ones here for you Mike:
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The vintage English Wilkies are good; I've never found any that were downright poor, and some I have which were made for the Spanish export market, I think in the 1980s, are really excellent. Gillette did some good stainless blades, like the Super Silver and Platinum. The Personna 74s are also nice, but tend to be expensive and are really not worth what many sellers are asking.
I have a few UK-made stainless blades which are also very good. Two that come to mind are Perma-Sharp Supreme and Eversharp Super Stainless. I think one or the other of these was made at a factory near Glasgow, but can't remember which.
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