I have had three razors to date: Revisor 5/8 with thermoplastic scales(first blade, bought direct from Mfr), Cadman Bengall 6/8 with celluloid scales (Etsy purchase), Henckels 472 6/8 with celluloid scales (ebay purchase), and I am now about to take delivery of a new Dovo Encina 6/8.

I have only been straight shaving for 4-5 months and I know a real expert will get better results, and as always YMMV, but I feel comfortable enough to chart these as follows:

Ergonomics (balance, handling, control etc):

1st - Bengall (by a country mile)
2nd - Revisor
3rd - Henckels

Comfort of shave (problematic due it boiling down to it being my honing vs factory honing vs another's):

1st - Henckels
2nd - Bengall
3rd - Revisor

Build Quality:

1st - Henckels
2nd - Bengall (not much to call between the Henckels and Cadman here, both feel very sturdy, they possess heirloom quality)
3rd - Revisor (blade did not sit tight in scales, the scales themselves felt insubstantial, did not feel of heirloom quality, to be frank it felt cheap)


Now this is only a subjective comparison and one provided by a relative newcomer to straight shaving, but I have read comments from renovators - honers that suggest a preference for the old blades; one particular honer compared the new blades to being hard, rough to use, harder to hone than the older sheffields. All that being said I have, as mentioned, bought a new Dovo, and so the experiment goes on.

Does anybody have a particular opinion (dangerous question I know)?