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I'm definitely a Treet (Pakistan) man and get on well with much from India, including a general preference for Gillette from India (like these 365s, to keep it on topic). That said, I do like VOSKHOD, Sputnik, Rapira and PermaSharp (Russian) but not a whole heap else Russian including their hallowed Silver Blue and Platinum blades. I particularly like Lord, but oddly not Wilkinson Sword who were the expertise (and equipment?) behind Lord.
That said, around 2015 I packed it all in and went with a 1912 and GEM Stainless almost exclusively until this last year when something or other (which I can't actually remember) brought me back to double edge.
Mysterious things, blades.
I guess when folks just had a Gillette Tech and were limited to a small selection of soaps, the variable factors were indeed much less. Now we're using any given blade with a myriad of prep/soap/razor combinations and almost never the same shave twice, it's no surprise that opinions of blades vary so wildly.
That said, around 2015 I packed it all in and went with a 1912 and GEM Stainless almost exclusively until this last year when something or other (which I can't actually remember) brought me back to double edge.
Mysterious things, blades.
I guess when folks just had a Gillette Tech and were limited to a small selection of soaps, the variable factors were indeed much less. Now we're using any given blade with a myriad of prep/soap/razor combinations and almost never the same shave twice, it's no surprise that opinions of blades vary so wildly.