Feather blades just don't cut it???

One of the hardest things for me to get my head around when I started out a few years back is that a product that worked really well for me might not be so good for someone else and vice versa. I was just so used to seeing things through a quality lens - a good steak is a good steak no matter who you are and a bad steak is just bad.  You may like a different cut or seasoning or prep but there won't be much argument over whether or not a steak is of good quality or not.  Not so with shaving especially blades.  I happen to love the feather blade in the feather razor, the razor not surprisingly has an affinity for that blade.  I found I could get about 3 or 4 shaves with it.  I also found that the feather blade, for me, was a little too scary in my DE89 razor.  I recently had a surprise when I took a feather out of my AS-D2 that I had used 3 times and put it in the ikon 102 - it went on to do a wonderful job for 3 more shaves giving me 6 shaves on a feather blade albeit in 2 different razors.  It must be the different angles of the two razors that allowed me to get 3 more BBS shaves out of a feather that was losing its edge in the AS-D2.  Weird but I'm good with it.  Yes I do really like Feather blades

Kai blades are another story, very sharp in whatever razor I use them in, I like them in the 102.  I went and bought 50 blades from Amazon and they arrived loosely, i.e., not in the little blue boxes.  I don't know if its my imagination but those "Kai" blades seem a little harsher.  Given that Kais have no marking of any kind on the blade or the wrapper, once you separate them from their blue box its hard to tell if they're the genuine item or not.  I suspect these blades to be knock offs.  My lesson on this is that I should continue to deal with Jason of TryABlade He provides great service and you can be sure you're buying the real deal.  Especially when it comes to expensive blades like Kai.


Thats my two bits.
Mark

I bought my Kai 50 pack from Amazon and received 10 boxes of 5 blades each. Each blade is individually wrapped in white paper and there are no glue dots on the blades.

As there are different merchants on amazon marketplace I must have bought from a different vendor - it even said on the page when I went back and checked the fine print that the blades would come loose. I won't do that again.

In addition to what grim provided there was a member on B&B who had access to a scanning electron microscope and took some of his blades to work and provided the images. He ended up doing quite a few. I don't belong to B&B and I don't know if linking to another forum is okay but you can find it with a Google search. Pretty interesting.

Link away.  I'm curious to see them.  

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This is the orig thread I was thinking of:
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread....dge-Images

This post has a link to additional scans:
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread....omparisons

I preferred them in milder razors

In addition to what grim provided there was a member on B&B who had access to a scanning electron microscope and took some of his blades to work and provided the images. He ended up doing quite a few. I don't belong to B&B and I don't know if linking to another forum is okay but you can find it with a Google search. Pretty interesting.

Link away.  I'm curious to see them.  

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Here's another thread from a member on B&B that involved a microscope.  The OP started with some shots of a straight razor edge at different stages of honing and then added some DE blades as well.  Playing-around-with-my-new-microscope-My-Boker-straight-razor

In addition to what grim provided there was a member on B&B who had access to a scanning electron microscope and took some of his blades to work and provided the images. He ended up doing quite a few. I don't belong to B&B and I don't know if linking to another forum is okay but you can find it with a Google search. Pretty interesting.

Link away.  I'm curious to see them.  

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This is the orig thread I was thinking of:
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread....dge-Images

This post has a link to additional scans:
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread....omparisons

wicked!

A lot of people rave about the Polsilver SIs. I have tried them a couple of times and hate them with a passion. It's definitely a YMMV thing. Feathers perform extremely well for me in everything from a 40s SS to a wide open FB. I always get about 4 shaves out of a blade and you can get them for about $23/100.