How many shaves from a single edge blade?

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Vintage English Wilkie (Wilkinson Sword): 11 or 12 shaves max.

Is that a typo? What could be the different in the material and polish of the grinding in the wilkies that get them 11 or 12 shaves? Are they made from depleted uranium? I cannot see how the material strength, regardless of initial cutting edge would last for nearly two weeks of shaves.
 
Is that a typo? What could be the different in the material and polish of the grinding in the wilkies that get them 11 or 12 shaves? Are they made from depleted uranium? I cannot see how the material strength, regardless of initial cutting edge would last for nearly two weeks of shaves.
I've used NOS DE blades manufactured by Wilkinson, Gillette, Schick and Personna.

Stainless DE blades were a strategically important product from the mid 1960's through to the early 1980's when cartridges became a mainstay.

As a consequence of this I believe much attention was paid to getting the alloy, tooling, grind and QC right. Also longer production runs aid consistency, particularly before programmable machinery was available.

Whilst I don't claim to get double digit shaves from a good NOS blade, I can generally get 6 good shaves, compared to 3 from a modern blade.

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@mpf9ret Thanks for this and yes I got 14 from the US delivered from Amazon. Would be interested to know where you got you chicks at that price. I have the prolines as well though I actually prefer the chicks tbh. The messing around inserting them into a dispenser is a pain too but they are good value so will stick with them as those chicks from the states are hardly a bargain.
 
@mpf9ret Thanks for this and yes I got 14 from the US delivered from Amazon. Would be interested to know where you got you chicks at that price. I have the prolines as well though I actually prefer the chicks tbh. The messing around inserting them into a dispenser is a pain too but they are good value so will stick with them as those chicks from the states are hardly a bargain.
 
@mpf9ret Thanks for this and yes I got 14 from the US delivered from Amazon. Would be interested to know where you got you chicks at that price. I have the prolines as well though I actually prefer the chicks tbh. The messing around inserting them into a dispenser is a pain too but they are good value so will stick with them as those chicks from the states are hardly a bargain.
Got them from Flea Bay supplier in mid 2016. offer of some at £5 per pack + post stands, as my stocks of Proline are now good.
 
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