What blade should I buy a 1000 of?

[Mark1966]

OK P&C brethren...

IF I felt the need to buy 1000 blades what would I get?

Vintage Polsilvers?
Polsilver SIs?
Voskod?
Personna Lab Blues?
Astra SP?
Merkur? (cough, cough)
Dorco Prime Platinum?
Something else?

 

[SpeedyPC]

I would get the Polsilver Super Iridium that's depend cause YMMV

I would rather stay stick you're blade that works best for you.

 

[borked]

Have you tried the vintage Polsilver browns?
If you like them, I suggest them, since this appears to be the last large lot of them available.

 

[eggbert]

Light brigades or Personna 74s

 

[Mark1966]

Light brigades or Personna 74s

So you have some spare - thanks mate !

 

[dewynter]

Voskhod

 

[Osman]

Vintage Polsilvers are wonderfull. Six shaves per blade, one thousand blades so thats six thousand shaves. May need to buy more soap.

 

[Mark1966]

Have you tried the vintage Polsilver browns?
If you like them, I suggest them, since this appears to be the last large lot of them available.

Vintage too ...

 

[alfredus]

Ladas

 

[Korbz]

Permasharp

 

[Mark1966]

Blade Supplier Number Currency Cost Shipping Total Exchange Rate $AUD per blade
Polsilver SI http://www.polsilver-blades.com/ 900 USD 144 0 144 1.29 185.76 0.2064
Polsilver Brown http://www.shaving.ie/products/200-polsilver-blades.html 1000 GBP 138.82 4.86 143.68 1.69 242.8192 0.242819
Voskhod http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/262394738112 1000 AUD 71.48 30.61 102.09 1 102.09 0.10209
Lada http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/262128758970 1000 AUD 71.48 30.61 102.09 1 102.09 0.10209
Permasharp https://shavingmarket.com/shop/perma-sharp-double-edge-razor-blades/ 1000 AUD 249 9.9 258.9 1 258.9 0.2589

 

[eggbert]

I don't know what your plan is for these blades but I really don't think you would be getting as nice a shave with the Russian ones as you do with your current collection of vintage blades.

 

[Mark1966]

I don't know what your plan is for these blades but I really don't think you would be getting as nice a shave with the Russian ones as you do with your current collection of vintage blades.

Possible - but I'm not sure that I have enough to last me into my declining years ...

All the stashes of vintage ones seem to have gone too

 

[Korbz]

Possible - but I'm not sure that I have enough to last me into my declining years ...

how long exactly do you plan to live for?

 

[Mark1966]

how long exactly do you plan to live for?

I have looked at the life tables and built in a little margin for error

 

[Ptr74]

If you like the vintage Polsilvers Shaving i..e. still seems to have alot left. Last chance to get?

 

[hunnymonster]

OK P&C brethren...

IF I felt the need to buy 1000 blades what would I get?

Vintage Polsilvers?
Polsilver SIs?
Voskod?
Personna Lab Blues?
Astra SP?
Merkur? (cough, cough)
Dorco Prime Platinum?
Something else?

Whichever one(s) you love beyond measure. Even if they're still currently made, you guard against them being "improved".

 

[Monsta_AU]

I'd be stacking Silver Blues & PermaSharp Supers. Only modern blades worth grabbing in my book.

In the meantime, keep looking for the vintage blades - Wilkies, Schicks, 80's Gillettes.... even older Personnas (pre-86). Anytime you see a couple of hundred of these at a reasonable price, grab them.

There was the 1000-lot Gillette blades on the holder floating around on ebay a while ago - these are the English Platinum (Royal Award) blades but they are expensive. Possibly the best that Gillette ever made, period.

 

[dewynter]

I don't know what your plan is for these blades but I really don't think you would be getting as nice a shave with the Russian ones as you do with your current collection of vintage blades.

I've got some kind of Russian background and I was really worrying about the quality, but I was pleasantly surprised with Voskhod blades. Now it's my go to blade. Counting the price per blade even if you have 3 shaves from Voskhod (I've got 4 very good shaves) and 6 from vintage Polsilver the price per shave is the same. At the same time Voskhod and Ladas are widely available while you really need to look for vintage Polsilver. Always having BBS with Voskhod. No complaints from my wife.

 

[eggbert]

I've got some kind of Russian background and I was really worrying about the quality, but I was pleasantly surprised with Voskhod blades. Now it's my go to blade. Counting the price per blade even if you have 3 shaves from Voskhod (I've got 4 very good shaves) and 6 from vintage Polsilver the price per shave is the same. At the same time Voskhod and Ladas are widely available while you really need to look for vintage Polsilver. Always having BBS with Voskhod. No complaints from my wife.

I liked the Voskhods when I first started shaving, but then (when prices were still relatively cheap) I discovered vintage blades along with some of the other people here (@Mark1966 included). Vintage Gillette Spoilers, Silver Platinums, Aussie Spoilers, Schick Plus Platinum, Personnas, Wilkinson Light Brigades (plus others) are just that bit better in terms of sharpness, smoothness, or longevity.
I've traded away (almost) all of my current production blades as I have enough good vintage blades to last me, and current blades just don't hold a candle to the best of the vintage ones.