I think you'll find these to be great blades without having to cork them. Let us know how it turns out.
Drinking and corking no open a bottle of wine, cork a blade or two , and drink the wine do not open the wine , drink the wine , then attempt corking, just a little advice, The Grottolord
I will never, for the life of me, understand the lengths people will go to to try and eke a decent shave out of poor products (trying to shave with bath soap, corking poor blades, etc.), when there are plenty of products that shave very nicely right out of the package. Just my 2c. Cheers. J
Guys, I have been doing this whole wet-shaving thing for a very long time. Number one thing, I do not use cork. It is too hard and very likely would aid in slightly dulling the blade. I use a hunk of styrofoam. I just run the very edge lightly down the foam a couple times on each side. Not every single blade needs it, but I do it anyway to avoid the grief of those rough ones you come across once in a while. "Corking" does pull away those little burrs that cause an otherwise good blade to give a terrible shave. Stropping the same blades just realigns the edge, and hones it back into smoothness. These are facts guys. 50+ years of experience, all the while trying every different technique around. And this way of stropping has been one of the best things I ever discovered.
Now THAT'S interesting. Simply change the terminology and an unacceptable practice becomes an acceptable one. It's all in the semantics. I am now a "cork stropper".
Have you ever tried using a packing peanut or any other type of soft foam instead of cork? if not, try it. You will be happily impressed, I think.
Rick, Be sure to use a fresh blade. Cork it using the foam, and then use the stropping technique I have posted. You will, without a doubt, notice a difference.
Okay, am I doing two things here? Correct me if I'm wrong, but am I supposed to run the edge of the blade through the foam, and then strop? You know, the more I think about this, the more sense it makes. If you need to strop a straight that's made of the finest carbon steel costing hundreds of dollars, then why wouldn't the .10 DE blades benefit from the same treatment?
Yup....... Make sure that you are running the edge through VERY lightly!! Have you read the posts I have made regarding my stropping method? And on your second point. That is why I started stropping my blades. I used to strop them 50 years ago, continued stropping my Rolls Razors on a daily basis, and then just picked back up on stropping my DE blades again recently. There is no denying that it works.