Thread: Favorite Blades

I have three favorite blades. A W&B wedge, a Puma and a Dovo. I get great shaves from all three. What are your favorites?

Well, for the past few shaves I've been using my 6/8 Wade and Butcher Hollow Ground. "Extra Hollow Ground," as a matter of fact. I had just honed it, and these past few days have been my introduction to this 6/8 blade size. I quite like it.

Then there's the Henckel 5/8 hollow ground. This one looks the coolest, too.

I've also got my 5/8 Worcester razor, which shaves really well. It's somewhere between a hollow-ground and a wedge. A semi-hollow.

A heavy 6/8+ W&B and 5/8+ Pierre Thiers collectable are my favorites followed closely by TI 6/8 Singing blade, which by the way does not sing.

I am also trying to get a 6/8+ Joseph Rogers & Sons, very shallow holow ground blade, almost a wedge, up to par to be one of my favorites. I like the weight of the blade but so far the shaves are good but not great.

Another in the rotation is a 6/8+ Fontana but I am still trying to get it to that great shave stage from just good.

I love ALL my blades equally. It's impossible for a father to choose.

X

I like all my razors. My favorites are a Puma INOX Special, a Pume 1938 hohl, a Dorko 123,and a Dovo Astrale, all 5/8, that I like above the others. I always get a great shave with these. These tend to stay in my rotation, while I change the others every couple of months.

Well thats a very hard question. You know razors can be like children, when they are in need of honing they can be very naughty but when they are keen they are a joy to behold.

Actually if you put a gun to my head and made me choose my TI pierre limited would be my first choice. After that its get difficult, any of three other TIs, all my 7 or so DDs, my Puma's my henkles and so it goes.

I have quite a few really top razors, Some limited TI editions, a big Friodur, two beautiful Stehlo 7/8 razors, etc.... but if I am in a hurry and want to grab the one blade I knw will perform it is a Thiers-Issard Special Coiffer 1937 ($65). For some reason it always performs.

Tony

My favorites are the larger ones! I have a custom Cocobola wood 6/8, a L'Alpin 6/8, a Mondesir 7/8 and just got a Stehlo 7/8 that looks like a winner!!! And of course, my SRP #89!

RT

I'm currently getting the best shaves from my Bismark 6/8". The fact that it is elegant is a bonus

M y W & B's, both of them. After that my Noonan.