Why is 1/2/3/4 printed on each corner of a DE blade?

[Pig Cat]

Some people flip the blade?
I know i'm new too this lark, but that is one thing i don't think i'll be doing.

The art is to only use your mouth to flip the blade!

Yes indeed! When I have blunted the blade sufficiently I actually eat the blade. Been doing this since I gave blood recently, or rather didn't give blood. They told me that my iron level was below the minimum requirement so turned me away.

Are razor blades made of iron?

 

[RedNeckRash]

Some people flip the blade?
I know i'm new too this lark, but that is one thing i don't think i'll be doing.

The art is to only use your mouth to flip the blade!

Yes indeed! When I have blunted the blade sufficiently I actually eat the blade. Been doing this since I gave blood recently, or rather didn't give blood. They told me that my iron level was below the minimum requirement so turned me away.

Are razor blades made of iron?

:hungrig Yes, until I get a sharps bin I will join you in eating the blunt(ish) blades :hungrig

 

[Pig Cat]

:hungrig Yes, until I get a sharps bin I will join you in eating the blunt(ish) blades :hungrig

Ha ha! You are a red neck in both senses of the word!! We're just a pair of banjo-pickin' idiot boys.

 

[Rev-O]

Flipping blades? Life's too short and blades are too cheap.

Also I suspect that it would lead to a worse shaving edge, due to handling, realignment and potential burrs.

But what do I know?

Surely shaving "up" as well as "down" inverts the blade anyway?

 

[Manx Man]

I find that if you correspond the odd and even numbered blade edges with odd and even dates in the month and the lunar cycle you can get a much smoother shave. The gravitational effect of the moon affects the Earth's core which leads to a realignment of steel molecules along the razor edge. Simple.

Thats only if you have your pyramid [everyones got one for sharpening there blades :roll:] 3rd corner facing the North Pole.

:?

 

[Jeltz]

I find that if you correspond the odd and even numbered blade edges with odd and even dates in the month and the lunar cycle you can get a much smoother shave. The gravitational effect of the moon affects the Earth's core which leads to a realignment of steel molecules along the razor edge. Simple.

Thats only if you have your pyramid [everyones got one for sharpening there blades :roll:] 3rd corner facing the North Pole.

:?

Magnetic north or true north?

 

[RB73]

I find that if you correspond the odd and even numbered blade edges with odd and even dates in the month and the lunar cycle you can get a much smoother shave. The gravitational effect of the moon affects the Earth's core which leads to a realignment of steel molecules along the razor edge. Simple.

Thats only if you have your pyramid [everyones got one for sharpening there blades :roll:] 3rd corner facing the North Pole.

:?

Magnetic north or true north?

There’s only one and Santa lives there... :evil:

 

[Audiolab]

Philistines...you know you are supposed to take the blade out and scratch out a number each day, then when they are all gone you know to change it.

 

[hunnymonster]

That'll be why Dorcos have no numbers on... you toss them out before you put them in your razor :lol:

 

[Urban Hermit]

I didnt even think of flipping the blades

Well, for some unknown reason (though possibly linked to my deeply (very very deeply), entrenched suicidal ideation), I think of the flipping blades much of the flipping time.

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