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4th Annual February "One Blade" Challenge!

As we near the end of the month…. Who will be continuing their blade into March?
 
I’ll probably call it quits after tomorrow. Switch to a new razor and new blade for the start of March. Blade is starting to give me a little irritation with each shave unfortunately
 
OK, today is the last day of the challenge. How did we do?
@dkeester @Fightingillini22 @EMG06 @b1hart @Quijote @ICETEE @SteveChuckFrank @LW12 @woodpusher


How many blades did you use? How many shaves on your blade? And will you continue into March and beyond?

1. Spider (Drug Store Personna PC) - 1 Blade, 27 Shaves, Will continue.
2. dkeester (Treet Black Carbon)
3. Illini (Bic SP)
4. EMG06 (Gillette Nacet)
5. b1hart (AC Blade)
6. Quijote (GSB)
7.ICETEE (Schick P-30)
8.SteveChuckFrank (Personna Platinum)
9. LW12 (Rapira Platinum Lux)
10. woodpusher (Feather)
 
Feather#1 - 3 weeks, but it was struggling at 2 weeks
Feather#2 - 1 week ... will take it to 10-14 days or whenever it conks out
 
Been 26 shaves on this Bic SP, although 25 and 26 have been rougher than I'd like. Will give it a few more days in a couple more razors to make sure it's not my pairing or technique but it's not looking like it'll get to 30...I've been proven wrong before, though!

1. Spider (Drug Store Personna PC) - 1 Blade, 27 Shaves, Will continue.
2. dkeester (Treet Black Carbon)
3. Illini (Bic SP) - 1 Blade, 26 shaves, will continue
4. EMG06 (Gillette Nacet)
5. b1hart (AC Blade)
6. Quijote (GSB)
7.ICETEE (Schick P-30)
8.SteveChuckFrank (Personna Platinum)
9. LW12 (Rapira Platinum Lux)
10. woodpusher (Feather)
 
Spider said:
4. EMG06 (Gillette Nacet)
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I went the whole month (28/28 days and shaves) with the Gillette Nacet in my Seygus Zeppelin V2 (with 5/7 gaps). Shaved 90% of the time on the side with the 7 gap, and flipped the blade once half way through. Unfortunately starting to get random irritation with each shave and I’m blaming it on the blade (or maybe my skin is missing some of that Williams Mug goodness). So, I’ll be returning to my normal German Wilkinson Sword blades tomorrow. Thanks for another fun month!
 
1. Spider (Drug Store Personna PC) - 1 Blade, 27 Shaves, Will continue.
2. dkeester (Treet Black Carbon) -
3. Illini (Bic SP) - 1 Blade, 26 shaves, will continue
4. EMG06 (Gillette Nacet) - 1 Blade, 28 shaves, Done.
5. b1hart (AC Blade) -
6. Quijote (GSB) -
7.ICETEE (Schick P-30) -
8.SteveChuckFrank (Personna Platinum) -
9. LW12 (Rapira Platinum Lux) -
10. woodpusher (Feather) - 2 Blades, 3 weeks, continue 2nd blade.
 
1. Spider (Drug Store Personna PC) - 1 Blade, 27 Shaves, Will continue.
2. dkeester (Treet Black Carbon) -
3. Illini (Bic SP) - 1 Blade, 26 shaves, will continue
4. EMG06 (Gillette Nacet) - 1 Blade, 28 shaves, Done.
5. b1hart (AC Blade) -
6. Quijote (GSB) - 1 blade, 14 shaves, will continue
7.ICETEE (Schick P-30) -
8.SteveChuckFrank (Personna Platinum) -
9. LW12 (Rapira Platinum Lux) -
10. woodpusher (Feather) - 2 Blades, 3 weeks, continue 2nd blade.
 
1. Spider (Drug Store Personna PC) - 1 Blade, 27 Shaves, Will continue.
2. dkeester (Treet Black Carbon) -
3. Illini (Bic SP) - 1 Blade, 26 shaves, will continue
4. EMG06 (Gillette Nacet) - 1 Blade, 28 shaves, Done.
5. b1hart (AC Blade) -
6. Quijote (GSB) - 1 blade, 14 shaves, will continue
7.ICETEE (Schick P-30) -1 Blade-14 shaves, Will Continue.
8.SteveChuckFrank (Personna Platinum) -
9. LW12 (Rapira Platinum Lux) -
10. woodpusher (Feather) - 2 Blades, 3 weeks, continue 2nd blade.
es, will continue
 
1. Spider (Drug Store Personna PC) - 1 Blade, 27 Shaves, Will continue.
2. dkeester (Treet Black Carbon) -
3. Illini (Bic SP) - 1 Blade, 26 shaves, will continue
4. EMG06 (Gillette Nacet) - 1 Blade, 28 shaves, Done.
5. b1hart (AC Blade) -
6. Quijote (GSB) - 1 blade, 14 shaves, will continue
7.ICETEE (Schick P-30) -1 Blade-14 shaves, Will Continue.
8.SteveChuckFrank (Personna Platinum) -
9. LW12 (Rapira Platinum Lux) - 1 Blade, 20 shaves, Done
10. woodpusher (Feather) - 2 Blades, 3 weeks, continue 2nd blade.
es, will continue
 
1. Spider (Drug Store Personna PC) - 1 Blade, 27 Shaves, Will continue.
2. dkeester (Treet Black Carbon) - 1 Blade, 27 shaves, Done.
3. Illini (Bic SP) - 1 Blade, 26 shaves, will continue
4. EMG06 (Gillette Nacet) - 1 Blade, 28 shaves, Done.
5. b1hart (AC Blade) -
6. Quijote (GSB) - 1 blade, 14 shaves, will continue
7.ICETEE (Schick P-30) -1 Blade-14 shaves, Will Continue.
8.SteveChuckFrank (Personna Platinum) -
9. LW12 (Rapira Platinum Lux) - 1 Blade, 20 shaves, Done
10. woodpusher (Feather) - 2 Blades, 3 weeks, continue 2nd blade.
es, will continue
 
Spider said:
OK, today is the last day of the challenge. How did we do?

5. b1hart (AC Blade)
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February has been a brutal month....not much time here, family obligations and work.

I used 1 AC (Schick Proline) blade for 7 shaves....it really didn't feel up to snuff to start with, so I leather stropped it in my Feather AC DX. BAD idea. I lost that fight.

Second AC blade is still going strong, 11 shaves in. I'll keep using it.

Rotated the Feather AC DX handle, a Blackland Vector, and a Enoch V1 (which I've removed the safety bar).
 
15 shaves now with the P-30, I will use some other razors at times, de's and my 1912 colection, I miss using differant razors but will use my se razors once ore twice weekly until the blade dies. It has been a good run and I would like to see how many uses I can get with one blade.
 
16th shave with P-30 today, after using a differant razor,with a new blade and going back to the P-30 it felt a little tuggy,will give it another go tomorrow to see how it is,might just being using a new blade on a differand razor made it fell tuggy,will wat and see :sneaky:
 
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