Thread: Super Speed vs Fatboy

I have used all these razors. All this is IMHO and YMMV.

The flare tip Super Speed is very mild, this is why Gillette did the Red Tip, which is heavier and more aggressive. (They also did the Blue Tip which is lighter and extremely mild, ideal for women's leg shaving.)
To get round having three models they introduced the Fat Boy adjustable and dropped the blue and red tips.
The Fat Boy adjusts over 1 to 9 but in reality the change in aggression is not that great. After just 4 years they re-engineered it as the Slim which is much the same only lighter with a thinner handle. Then came the Super Adjustable with the black handle in both long and short versions, the adjustment range is wider on this and it is (to me) by far the best of the three. Later versions of this had a black plastic under head moulding, these are known as "Black Beauties".

These razors are so cheaply and easily available that it is a shame not to own all of them and so protect our heritage. They can only go up in value.