Why is 1/2/3/4 printed on each corner of a DE 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
 
RedNeckRash said:
: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.
 
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?
 

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:
 
RedNeckRash said:
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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        • ...he said 'flipping the blades', not 'the flippin...'
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