132 Blades - Some Charts

[Kent Kimmons]

Obviously, this is only my opinion and YMMV.

Yes, the Dorco ST-300 is the same blade as the ST-301 and drops out of the top 20 if we look at using only the top 4 blades. While both scored the same overall, the blade I got as the ST-300 did not give me a BBS first stave while the ST-301 did. This is one argument against using the first 4 only as a hard criteria for which blades to choose moving forward. Thankfully, neither blade was high enough in the rankings to force me to come to grips with this issue so my decision will likely be to simply ignore the question in the end.

 

[luvmysuper]

What do the left and bottom scale numbers represent?

 

[Kent Kimmons]

What do the left and bottom scale numbers represent?

The bottom is just a blade count, 1 - 20, The left is my overall score for the blade.

 

[blethenstrom]

Thank you for those charts. That is some very detailed information.

 

[Euler]

Never heard of Big Ben Super Stainless. I'm pretty new and have shaved mostly with Feather blades and RK Stainless (the ones that ship with Henson razors). Would you say Big Bens are similar to Feathers?

Also, you have scored Bic Chrome Platinum in the bottom dwellers. Curious about why, since I have seen these rated highly by others.

 

[Kent Kimmons]

Never heard of Big Ben Super Stainless. I'm pretty new and have shaved mostly with Feather blades and RK Stainless (the ones that ship with Henson razors). Would you say Big Bens are similar to Feathers?

Also, you have scored Bic Chrome Platinum in the bottom dwellers. Curious about why, since I have seen these rated highly by others.

132 Blades - Bic Chrome Platinum

This one was completely underwhelming. I've had the blade in the razor for 2 shaves and it was a race to the bottom, but the Abest still retains the title as worst blade I've tried so far. I had a total of 8 bleeders in 2 shaves and I have no doubt that, should I press the blade to 4 shaves, I...

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[BigJ]

Interesting data!!

Thanks for posting.

 

[Aaron H]

Thanks for posting.

I share the same view as you, weirdly Big Ben stainless is my new favourite blade in my Yates EH dethroning my Russian Nacets.

Big Ben stainless is not as sharp as a Nacet, but sharp enough and more importantly its the smoothness with the least drama in the sense its hard to cut yourself unless you are really careless or super aggressive.