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I've been using the same Feather Artist Club Pro Super Blade in my Feather DX razor since July 22 -- that's 42 days. Yesterday, I completed shave 32, and got my usual BBS in 3 passes + touch-up. The blade is still plenty sharp, just more forgiving than when it was new. It's a pleasure to shave with.

The secret to this longevity appears to be stropping. After every shave since shave 1, I've stropped the blade on a soft terry-cloth towel. (Thanks to Larry [Lmarkow on B&B] for this tip.) I do 15 round trips: 5 passes in one direction, 5 passes in the other, 3 times. Somewhere around shave 20, I started stropping the blade before each shave as well, on a soft leather paddle strop. I can't say with scientific certainty, but I'm pretty sure that this extra step has added life to the blade. It's still going strong.

I have a hunch that towel-stropping will also help with shavettes that take DE blades. When I do touch-up with a Parker SR1 half-DE-blade shavette or the Equinox whole-DE-blade shavette, I towel-strop those blades, too. They seem to go on forever, but of course it's only touch-up.

I'm guessing that towel-stropping would work with Feather AC Pro blades, too. Not sure about the Pro Guards, but worth trying.

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Viseguy
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You can strop the Weck, Litt etc old type straight razors this way as well.they were originally sold with a small leather strop if I remember correctly .

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