I love the look of the large blades and have several. For shaving purposes the 5/8ths or 6/8ths are my favorite. I went to the barber for a shave and brought an old 5/8ths Wostenholm and a 1 1/16th Greaves. He looked at the Greaves and asked what I planned to dismember with it. He used the Wostenholm and I think he got a big kick from using a 200 year old razor.