List your Top 3 Shavers

What are your top 3 best PERFORMERS? Not your favorite "looking" razor or your grail but your best shaver.

You can list 5 if you want but it gets harder.

Here's my list:

1) 1974 U1 Gillette Super Adjustable "Black Beauty"
2) 1956 B2 Gillette "Red Tip" Super Speed
3) KAI Captain Excelia Folding

The next two get harder but I'll say:
4) 40's Tech Heavy
5) Toss up between Fatboy and a Matador (haven't quite found the right blade for the Fatboy).

For DE razors:
1) Gillette New
2) Gillette Old
3) Gillette Aristocrat Jr.

4) Gillette 1940's Superspeed
5) Early war triangle slot Gillette Tech

For SE razors:
1) Damaskeene
2) GEM Jr.
3) Schick Injector "G"

Wolfman DC
ATT S1
ATT M1

For DE razors:
1) 1962 Slim
2) 1940's Super Speed
3) My dad's Toggle

1. #88
2. my other #88
3. #15

1) NEW Deluxe 17mm

2) British RFB NEW

3) Probak OC

All of these shave best for me paired with a Weber bulldog handle. The original handles are nice, but I prefer the extra weight of the bulldog.

In no particular order:
Black Beauty
Wolfman SB
Weber PH

I only have five razors so my universe of candidates is pretty small, however I don't see the need to buy any more since I am happy with all of them to some degree. That is not to say that I don't keep my eyes open for a vintage three piece or TTO when I'm browsing an antique store or thrift shop.

Dad's '59 Gillette Fat Boy
Grandfather's Schick Krona
My birthday razor: '62 Gillette Slim H1

My others are a Edwin Jagger DE89 and a Feather Popular.

Muhle R41
Gillette Slim
Mergress XL

Mergress (hands down winner for performance and versatility)
'13 R41
'11 R41

1. Vintage merkur slant
2. Cobra
3. Palmera 14

1. Merkur 34c - Not sure how I will ever knock this one off the top.
2. Gillette Super Speed TTO - So efficient but yet very smooth. Just slightly more aggressive than the 34c.
3. RazoRock Baby Smooth - Light, efficient and again, just slightly more aggressive than the above 2 razors.

I had a tough time with #3 cuz my Gillette Slim is right up there as well. I love my 39c as well but its not a daily driver for me so no top 3.

-Josh

1. Weber DLC
2. Weber PH Graphite Black cerakote
3. Wolfman WR1-SB modified by .006mm

1. Merkur 23C with base plate removed.
2. Merkur 23C with base plate.
3. Mühle R41.

2013 R41
Fatip Piccolo
Gillette Slim

1.Merkur 42C
2.EJ Kelvin
3.Hard choice on #3 but probably my Gillette SS

Gillette NEW Deluxe (15mm)
Gillette NEW Deluxe (17mm)
Gillette NEW Long Comb (post-merger)

Only have 2 but they are ...

MERKUR 39C (smoothest shave ever)
EDWIN JAGGER DE89

had several razors at one time but sold all but these 2 which are my favorites

JTillman said:

1) NEW Deluxe 17mm

2) British RFB NEW

3) Probak OC

All of these shave best for me paired with a Weber bulldog handle. The original handles are nice, but I prefer the extra weight of the bulldog.

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My list is similar. I can't decide which is better, my 15 mm NEW Deluxe or my RFB New, so for now they tie for first. I love my Probak, too, but I think my Feather AS-D2 outshaves it slightly.

1) Schick Krona
2) Old Type
3) Rotbart Mond Extra Solid Bar