Blades Revisited

I have been using the yellow pack 7am in a tech (fat handle & ball end) and a super speed and have enjoyed them but bear in mind I am coming from a mach 3 as this is my first de blade. But no tugging, pain, or redness and a good shave so far.

 

I think if you check your pack a little closer you will see that it is a 7 O'clock blade and not a 7am blade.

 

he he yeah 7 0 clock not 7 am

 

Well, I hadn't used Derby blades in a few months. I was working my way through a goodly selection of SE, DE, and Injector razors and blades.
I like the Wilkinson Sword DE from Wal-Mart a lot.
This week, I went back to my '69 Super Adjustable/vertical Derby blade combo and remembered why I like this combo so much. I get BBS without pain and blood. They work very well for me.

 

Wow I have to say its kind of a trip to find your post - as I popped this up only last night myself on another non-shaving site I'm a member of - it was in a thread where we're discussing the virtues of DE shaving:

So this ties in essentially sequentially with exactly what you're saying - as really from a logical perspective (haha thats my opinion anyway) - it seems that sampler packs would offer the BEST VALUE/BENEFIT to shavers that have their technique and most other variables under control.

For a new shaver (something I still very much am a month or so in) I too felt it made things harder changing from one type of blade to another.

So I really think new users should be recommended to stick with the one type of blade for the first few weeks/month of their DE shaving life.

Likewise once you're knowing your stuff a sampler pack is of much greater value.........think of it as getting a whole range of great wines but before you have any appreciation/understanding of how to prepare/what food to pair them with.........it'd kind of be wasted. Yeah some seem better than others but you're not going to really know what you're doing.

Whereas when you know your stuff its like pulling the blindfold off - and you can see all the nuances and virtues of them.

So I think great post by the OP and also I'd love to hear what folks think of newbies swapping blades too often.

PS. I know that some GOOD sampler packs have 10+blades of the same type, allowing users to go a month using that one type but MOST don't only having simgle packs or even single blades of each variety. Still I think new shavers should be made aware they're not helping themselves using different blade varieties initially. Get a good type and stick with it for a few weeks.

 

I have to say I had no idea that an average good blade could be are so uncomfortable for people - I'd have thought if you're starting with what are well regarded, well balanced blades (so not something like a Feather) that this'd be the least of a brand new shavers points of concern.

So I mean using something like a Derby, Astra, Personna, Gillette Green/Yellow.....not starting with something ghastly. So there'd be a list of recommended blades for new users to start out with and they'd use ONE variety for the first few weeks....THEN head off on the optimising search.

I mean new shavers are having their hands full with getting a lather, their angle right, correct pressure etc etc etc......I just don't see that changing blade types whlist doing all this other stuff does them any favours at all.

IMHO people want the perfect BBS shave immediately and they feel samplers are part of the answer to this - I agree but think that kind of as the OP has stated that they operated better once you have ALL the other variables down pat.

Just struck me as putting the horse before the cart and making something already with a LOT of variables so much more complicated. Each to their own I guess...