Nominate Blades #4 and #5

[BlacknTan]

Ignore the clown. I fail to heed my own advice sometimes.

I agree. I fail to heed sometimes also..

 

[TobyC]

Ignore the clown. I fail to heed my own advice sometimes.

I usually do ignore you, but sometimes I get a kick out of watching you get all flustered.

 

[TobyC]

Yup - Astra SP are my everyday goto blade.

Have gotten through a 100 of them over the last few years as well as trying other blades.

For me, the Astra SP just works. consistently sharp and smooth in every razor that i have tried. For the price, i think they are a great blade.

I've used a bunch of SP's and SS's and they are smooth but not that sharp really. For the price and consistency they're pretty good though.

 

[Paper Plane]

I’ll put in a vote for Bic Crome Platinum.

steve

 

[BlacknTan]

It's been some time since I shaved DE, but at the time, Derby was my favorite blade. Are they still available?

 

[Baba Rum]

I think you may like the Personna "reds" (Platinum Chrome). For me they're there with the GSB and Nacet.
Astra SP is much cheaper and a general all round blade - but for some people maybe a bit too general... and not as efficient as the other ones. I pair a slant with an Astra SP on a daily basis to compensate for the lack of sharpness in the Astra SP. If you can try out a Personna Red or Platinum Chrome (they come in Blue packages quite often now, sometimes with red lettering, but you will recognize the solid plastic 10-pieces boxes mentioning Personna Platinum. Made in Germany for Edgewell USA. Packs of 200 are frequently found at around 35 EUR.

 

[Consafe]

Of the blades that you have, I have only used Wizamet.
For me Bluebird(Derby) and Perma-sharp are good blades.
Perma-sharp are more consistent thar Wizamet and Bluebird is not like other Derby blades.