70+ DE safety razors on rotation: what is next?

I have 70+ razors (except wolfmanrazors - I do not plan to buy titanium Gillette Tech for 1000$) on rotation ... no Chinese or Indian clones... What is next? How many razors on rotation do you have?

 

The last time I counted, it was around 140 DE, SE, and Str8s. I really prefer to shave with vintage razors, 50+ years old.

 

Cool! About vintage ... may be. I have no vintage razors yet

 

Vintage is a whole new world. Today I shaved with a C.V. Heljestrand lather catcher with a wedge Heljestrand blade. Tomorrow I am using a favorite Gillette, my 1921 New Improved Tuckaway. Originally, it was silver plated. It was well worn, so I had it replated with rhodium. It is a beauty.

C.V. Heljestrand with wedge blade.


New Improved, before and after replating.

 

<Vintage is a whole new world.> Yes... your samples are perfect! A lot of different technical way were approved before our epoch.

 

Why bother starting a new thread for just 70 razors?
That amount would be my travel pack.

 

??? full collection ????

 

Yeah 70 razors only makes you piker around these parts.

As others around here would say it's good start but you got a long way to go.

 

O-hhh )

 

Collecting for at least 10 years now and wet shaving close to 20, I've found what I want to regularly shave with and that is about 12 - 13 razors I use semi regularly. Out of those I could shave about 5 or so exclusively if I had to. Since I've been collecting and buying and selling to razors to support my razor habit I've shaved with somewhere north of 400 different razors now going by the amount of razors I've sold off.

 

I completely agree

 

Oh boy...no vintage razors? You know where you need to go now...

 

Yep and single edge razors if none are in that collection. Next up after that would be shavettes and straights and finally broken whiskey bottles.

In all seriousness though jumping into any SE razor platform and mastering it even if you never used another SE razor after that will make you an overall better DE shaver.

 

I have well over 60 razors but only about 40 make a regular rotation as I'm daily shaver and in that bunch of 40 & I use a few favorites more often. I have SE, DE mostly and have a about half in Vintage and the others are mostly modern Razorock & Yaqi brands mostly. The modern razors are becoming very impressive lately with lots of good shaving razors.
Times could not be better for folks who enjoy traditional wet shaving for variety of shave products out there and Yaqi has been even trying to resurrect some old name brand name razors from the past like PAA brand does and the quality is very high end IMO.
Enjoy what we have while we can!

 

Most of my collection is vintage. Lots of good new ones out there but the quality of the old ones is just amazing. When a 60-100+ year old tool still works as good as the day it was built it adds a whole new dimension to your shave experience.
Also, you definitely need to explore single edge. My fantastic shave this morning was with a Schick E type injector. Built some time between 1935 and 1945.

 

I'd say it all depends on how you look at things. A lot of collectors who own 100 + razors often reach that number, because they own a lot of vintage razors and a good number of those vintage razors are either duplicates or they basically share the same head, but with a different handle, patent or it comes in a different case. I've also seen people bragging on various shaving forums and Facebook groups how they have shaved with over 200 razors, but did they really shaved with 200 entirely different and unique razors though? There's a huge difference between saying that you've used 200 + razors, most of which share the same head and claiming that you've shaved with over 200 absolutely different and unique razors.

 

That would make for an interesting thread.

 

I presume that's a hint for me going off topic?

 

Nope just saying is all. It would be interesting to see just how many regulars here are shavoholics and should join W.S.A. (wet shavers anonymous).