I get three to five shaves with most razor blades in my Merkur Slant razor, but with Rapira stainless blades, two is the maximum. What's your mileage with a Rapira blade?
How Many Shaves with Rapira?
- Thread starter TinyTim
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Two to three depending on the quality of my beard prep.
4 to 5 for me.
The Swedish Supersteels.
The Swedish Supersteels.
4-5 like all other blades.
I get 5-8 nice shaves with my medium beard type. Its a good blade.
I shave my head and face at the same time. I get 2, sometimes 3 from a swedish supersteel. I think I've only used 1-2 swedes though. I'd have to look at the tuck. Tried using one yesterday and it was getting bitey so i tossed it. I wanna say it was the third shave with it. I changed blades after my 3rd-4th stroke of my first pass. Went to a GSB with 2 shaves on it and it was much better.
I can get 3 good shaves per blade with any of the Rapira blades, including Chrome/Super Stainless, Swedish Supersteel, Platinum Lux, Ladas, Sharp Star and Voskhod - whenever I try to get more than 3 shaves I always end up out of my comfort zone
3 with Sweedish supersteel, 4-5 with platinum lux.
Great timing on this thread, I used a swede this week and got a good comfortable shave. Shave number 2 was awful, tugging painful, everything you don't want. Never seen such a rapid drop and I'm generally wondering if my blades are actually done when I retire them. There was no question this blade was done after just 1 use. Maybe it was a defective blade?
7 shaves. I went all through 2016 on a week per blade theme on whatever blades I use.
My experience is:
Voskhod, ladas - 2 shaves
Swedish supersteel - 1 shave (max - sometimes not even that - horrible blade).
Platinum lux - I am working on 6th shave on one at the moment but it's definitely fading. really good blade.
I have yet to try sharp stars and rapira chrome. I have both to try.
Voskhod, ladas - 2 shaves
Swedish supersteel - 1 shave (max - sometimes not even that - horrible blade).
Platinum lux - I am working on 6th shave on one at the moment but it's definitely fading. really good blade.
I have yet to try sharp stars and rapira chrome. I have both to try.
1 cheek! Same with Voskhod blades on two different blades. For me they are a nasty blade.
All the Rapira blades give me 3 excellent shaves. The 4th and 5th can get a little dicey, but I usually bail on them by the 5th shave because they're cheap.
That being said, I'm currently trying to one-blade February a Voskhod and I usually ditch those after 3 and I'm up to 6, so I'm starting to live dangerously.
That being said, I'm currently trying to one-blade February a Voskhod and I usually ditch those after 3 and I'm up to 6, so I'm starting to live dangerously.
