Thanks, guys. I have somewhere around 500 vintage razors and new old stock razors and just all sorts of pretty cool razor stuff, most of which is going to end up being sold because the only thing I like to shave with these days are a couple of HCS razors I made for myself. In fact, I had to make them so damned ugly that I wouldn't be tempted to sell them when someone called and asked. In my opinion, there is nothing that will shave better than really well forged heat treated and tempered HCS steel. I've got a CPM-S30v that was one of my experimental blades and it takes a wickedly sharp edge and is one of my backup shavers but the HCS is a more comfortable shave, in my opinion. After months of shaving daily with just a couple of HCS razors, they'll still pass every imaginable shaving test from the hanging hair test to shaving off the tips of your arm hairs without even touching your skin - the hair will just cut and fall onto the blade.

Unless someone really wants to pay extra for the beauty of Damascus or the stain resistance of CPM-S30v, I always, always ALWAYS recommend HCS steel and I've got more than a few customers that agree that nothing else shaves as well.