Thread: What should I get...5/8 or 6/8?

BeB,

Could your comment about the flood of 7/8 and a paucity of 6/8 have been a typo? From what I've observed there are boocoo (or is that beaucoupe?) 5/8 on the market and a modicum of 6/8 and a mightly slim choice of 7/8. Our European makers seem to think that most shavers demand the 5/8, which I think is not the case.

So, kcar, were you to choose a 6/8, you'd probably get a fine and eminently ueful shaving tool. A 7/8 will take a bit of getting used to, particularly if you don't have a moustache and have to shave under your nose, but is also a fine shaver.

My vote is for a 6/8 as being the best of the middle of the road. Since we're using the road metaphor here it's only right to add your mileage may vary.

And while here on the pavement, I gotta add a suggetion to look at the DOVO 6/8 Special with faux tortise scales. If I didn't have such a terrible case of RAD, I probably would have stopped buying razors with that one. Other razors may strike your fancy, and that's what should guide you as most will work just fine. But that 6/8 fake turtle really fits my hand well, shaves well, looks good, and thus it ranks right up there in the favorites rotation.

good luck, good shaving

Originally Posted by Bruce

BeB,

Could your comment about the flood of 7/8 and a paucity of 6/8 have been a typo? From what I've observed there are boocoo (or is that beaucoupe?) 5/8 on the market and a modicum of 6/8 and a mightly slim choice of 7/8. Our European makers seem to think that most shavers demand the 5/8, which I think is not the case.

So, kcar, were you to choose a 6/8, you'd probably get a fine and eminently ueful shaving tool. A 7/8 will take a bit of getting used to, particularly if you don't have a moustache and have to shave under your nose, but is also a fine shaver.

My vote is for a 6/8 as being the best of the middle of the road. Since we're using the road metaphor here it's only right to add your mileage may vary.

And while here on the pavement, I gotta add a suggetion to look at the DOVO 6/8 Special with faux tortise scales. If I didn't have such a terrible case of RAD, I probably would have stopped buying razors with that one. Other razors may strike your fancy, and that's what should guide you as most will work just fine. But that 6/8 fake turtle really fits my hand well, shaves well, looks good, and thus it ranks right up there in the favorites rotation.

good luck, good shaving

I agree that you would probably be very happy with a 6/8. It is a nice size and I also agree that 5/8 is really too small for most Americans. A few years ago Heribert Wacker asked me what Americans like and I told him, "Big scarry sharp things!" <LOL> Dovo wouldn't even talk to me about a 7/8 which is interesting since they keep cleaning that same warehouse and finding the absolute last of them. Lynn himself got the "absolute last ones in existance" a few years back. <LOL>