Thread: Genco blade

Gencos are all great quality blades. I have more Genco razors than anyother brand in my collection. Here is a photo of some of them. You will like your Genco if it is shave ready.
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Genco steel is really good quality. I find it to be a bit more labor intensive to get just right, but once it is, great stuff.

Genco's are good blades, also know as Geneva Cutlery which I believe became Case cutlery.

As to shave ready, they rarely are. For hones, 95% of my honing, a 320 diamond plate to cut/set the bevel, then a 600 and 1200 diamond to clean it up, then a 4000/8000 Norton and some 0.5 micron chromium oxide on strop (50,000 grit) to polish and leather. I have honed thousands of razors and that combo will get you most all the time. Add in a 10K for a few pickier blades. Then if you want to play with things like Coticules, Thuringians, and Escher Stones you can but like I said, 95% or more I dont need them and never had a complaint about the edge on any blades I have honed other than they are too sharp.