Your thoughts on OneBlade

SharpSpine Are you saying that smile is a good thing? This is all confusing to me. It seems that the blade should be straight, yet I get great shaves with the GEM blades that have the smile.

If I understood what you were communicating, and what you said is correct, then this may be a design change rather than a defect

SharpSpine   Are you saying that smile is a good thing?  This is all confusing to me.  It seems that the blade should be straight, yet I get great shaves with the GEM blades that have the smile.

If I understood what you were communicating, and what you said is correct, then this may be a design change rather than a defect

I just can't see how a blade smile would result in a better shave than a straight blade.

SharpSpine Are you saying that smile is a good thing? This is all confusing to me. It seems that the blade should be straight, yet I get great shaves with the GEM blades that have the smile.

If I understood what you were communicating, and what you said is correct, then this may be a design change rather than a defect

I posted earlier a quote from their website stating to them the perfect gap is .65mm. This wouldn't be a new design - this is a flaw.


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SharpSpine   Are you saying that smile is a good thing?  This is all confusing to me.  It seems that the blade should be straight, yet I get great shaves with the GEM blades that have the smile.

If I understood what you were communicating, and what you said is correct, then this may be a design change rather than a defect

I just can't see how a blade smile would result in a better shave than a straight blade.

Especially when it makes the gap much smaller, which makes a more mild razor. It already seems mild to me, and with the smiling blade I had to make 4 passes just to achieve a DFS. With my ATT SE1 I can get the same with one pass and touch ups.


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SharpSpine   Are you saying that smile is a good thing?  This is all confusing to me.  It seems that the blade should be straight, yet I get great shaves with the GEM blades that have the smile.

If I understood what you were communicating, and what you said is correct, then this may be a design change rather than a defect

I just can't see how a blade smile would result in a better shave than a straight blade.

Especially when it makes the gap much smaller, which makes a more mild razor. It already seems mild to me, and with the smiling blade I had to make 4 passes just to achieve a DFS. With my ATT SE1 I can get the same with one pass and touch ups.


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agreed. definitely let us know how you make out! tell them that it's being talked about on the forum and that another person (me) is also having the same problem to a worse degree (mine seems to smile more than yours) from a similar production batch.

I had the same thing that Brian (sharpspine) shows in his phots with the Oneblade that I ordered, smile with GEM blades, no smile with Feather blades.

Nonetheless, I still didn't get the shaves I was looking for even when using the latter blades, unfortunately.
I am not sure what it was, but I am not overly concerned as I won't be ordering another.
I am extremely content with the DE razors that I have.

Good luck, gentlemen.

I agree that a smile in which the blade gap is severely reduced in the middle would not be good. I also agree that when OneBlade touts their high level of tolerances and specifies a specific blade gap that they don't intend for there to be a differing in gap along the length of the blade, even if it does happen to make the blade perform better in general.

Pete123, I have a long standing theory/belief that the more rigid a blade is, then the more efficient it can be at cutting hair. DE blades never worked great for me due to blade chatter; the blade would flex against my stubble leading to many weepers. Most razors flex a DE blade in one plane. Slant razors will flex them in multiple planes, thus increasing the blades apparent rigidity. Slant razors gave me the best shaves I ever got from DE blades, but they were nowhere near as nice as a good old SE blade.

Therefore, if this theory holds true then I would suspect that a sight flex in a SE blade which normally lays completely flat would do the same type of thing as a slant razor does by increasing the blade's apparent rigidity. In my experience, the higher the blade stiffness the better the shave.

mine has the serial number 7347.

7727 is mine - just checked

mine has the serial number 7347.

It’s interesting that your serial numbers are so far apart. I know andrewjs18 just got his, but isn’t yours RSP1 also a fairly recent acquisition? (Of course the razors could have just been pulled out from opposite ends of the same batch.)

I was thinking about placing an order myself, but reading these latest developments has put a dampener on my plans. Awaiting with curiosity what OneBlade’s response to your very valid concerns will be. I hope it all works out.

7727 is mine - just checked

mine has the serial number 7347.

It’s interesting that your serial numbers are so far apart. I know andrewjs18 just got his, but isn’t yours RSP1 also a fairly recent acquisition? (Of course the razors could have just been pulled out from opposite ends of the same batch.)

I was thinking about placing an order myself, but reading these latest developments has put a dampener on my plans. Awaiting with curiosity what OneBlade’s response to your very valid concerns will be. I hope it all works out.

I hope it gets worked out as well. I want to try a GEM in the razor but I want to do it after I know a feather is aligned properly.