Long enough to reach all of your back (but not as huge as the picture shows)
You can think of this as a curved oversized model of one of those "safety razors" like people used to use before they came out with cartridge / disposable razors.  It's long enough where I can reach to the middle of my lower back using it over-the-shoulder, but to get lower I have to come from the side.  But there you'd be able to reach with a standard razor anyway.<br /><br />It's large, but not quite as huge as that last picture shows.  I think they had a midget pose for the photo!  It's a good thing it's not as huge as the picture because that would be unwieldy.<br /><br />Before mine arrived (I hadn't read the description well enough) I was thinking how in the world am I gonna find blades that long?  The trick is they use 3 standard blades aligned side-by-side in the shaving head.  These are just the standard paper-thin blades that you can buy anywhere for cheap.  And no, there's no "seam" between the blades because you overlap them when you install them.  It's kinda clever, and works fine since the blades are so thin.<br /><br />There are plastic protective teeth on the head around the blade so you don't cut yourself.  This makes it very safe, but it does mean that you have to hold the razor at a certain angle to your skin or it won't shave properly.<br /><br />Changing the blades _would_ be very quick and easy, except for the fact that you have to undo 4 rather small screws first.  Yeah, it comes with a little screwdriver, but it's really tedious undoing those screws.  Maybe they could improve with a tool-less design.  I don't think this would be suitable for an elderly individual or anyone else who lacks fine motor skills due to a medical condition.  They do give you 2 extra screws because they figure you're gonna lose some.  Nice of them, but I'd rather not have to screw with screws anyway.<br /><br />When it comes time to change the blades, turn them around and use the _other_ side of the blade.  So you can use each set of blades twice.  It comes with 10 extra blades (in addition to the 3 pre-installed blades).  Basically 4 sets of blades which can be flipped around once each.<br /><br />When I went to change the blades on mine the first time, hidden inside the head and molded into the plastic was a message:  "BE CAREFUL CUTTING HAND".  Haha that made my day!  Apparently there's a Chinese product design guy with a sense of humor who likes to play jokes.  I just hope he stays away from my Coca Cola.<br /><br />The handle can be disassembled so that it fits in the small travel bag they give you.  But in order to do that you have to... you guessed it, undo more screws.  Fortunately these screws are much larger than the other ones though.  Still, no way in heck am I gonna go through all that each time I want to put it away, so I just store it as-is in one big piece.
Rating: 5 stars