In the beginning, there was The Blade

In the beginning, there was the Blade.  The man saw the Blade, and the Blade was good.

The man said, ‘Ug.  Good.’  The Blade was One and it was straight.  At times the Blade dulled but could be coaxed back to attention with a leather rub.  And the Blade was then returned to its wits, its uncanny ability, able to parry any follicle.
And then a second man came and said, ‘This Blade is good, but I can make it better.’
And so this second man took two blades and put them side-by-side.  This man then carved much of his cheek in the curves and shapes of a jack-o-lantern.

This man bled very much.  The first man said, ‘That Blade is bad.’

The third man came and said, Bleeding Man, go from here. You soil my carpets and sleeves.  The second man went from there and died a slow, coursing death.

The fourth man came and said, give me your leather and two blades and I shall fasten them so.
And he fastened them to and so and made a dual blade leather bound beauty.

And the blades performed in harmony, yet lost their status as a singular entity, embodied with a capital letter ‘B’.  The Blades performed in harmony, in pair-ity, in duality.

This continued through the ages until it was known to all that the best blade is not a single Blade, but a confluence of blades.  It came to be known that this confluence of blades could tame the wildest of skins.
Each generation found that the number of blades per confluence of leather containment relative to the amount of square inch of skin covered is directly proportional to the price that Man is willing to pay for this contraption.

It quickly came to be that a five-blade compartment could garner, up to ten units of currency, thus two units per blade.

When Future Man came to this realization of two units currency per blade, he became drunk with profit motives and return on investment, ROI; he wanted to be King.  Future Man demised that if he could maximize the blade to square inch of skin ratio and deduct the amount of time needed to shave and trim he could maximize his kingdom.  He calculated thus:

Future Man’s calculations led him to devise the ultimate Blade device, dubbed the “Blade Brush.”

The Blade Brush pushed the blade to leather compartment contraption device limit beyond the limit, surpassing the “5-blade Fighter Force (TM)”, leaping over the 15-blade hand held “3×5 Masculite (TM)” (wrapping device hand strap not included, and completely dwarfing the latest 5 2 (squared) blade.  It remains to be seen if the 5 squared blade was its own demise after receiving multiple customer complaints of unintentional eyebrow slashing during shaving.

Future Man’s devise was quite simple at its heart—mimic the hair brush setup.

Future Man set out to install dozens and dozens of micro-blades into a hand-held wooden shaft, allowing a leather based implant for a bit of flexibility for the micro blades to sway in the pull of the skin.
What future man failed to calculate correctly, however, was the sharpness of tip to elasticity of skin ratio, thus rendering his wooden shaft device a veritable death syringe pricking device that caused massive lacerations upon impact, rendering each square inch of skin contacted an abhorrent pointillism blood induced portrait of the cheek as a young lad.

Future Man was then sued by all customer men, became straddled in debt and died owing more to his government in taxes, sales taxes and refunded items rendering his ROI, his kingdom, a non-return on any investment.

In the end, the Blade was gone.