Any blades you won't buy again?

I found my blade nemisis at the weekend. Gilette 7 o'clock super stainless (green pack)

Usual prep after a shower at 8am, Executive Shaving water soluble pre shave oil and musgo real oak. Loaded up my Ikon B1 Dual head with a new blade and as I had half hour to myself, took my time to enjoy the shave. Smooth feeling and efficient apart from the neck area where I needed some minor touch ups. Rinsed my face in cold water to inspect my handiwork.
Weepers galore and ended up looking like an extra from dawn of the dead. My face was like the red planet.
Finished with Alum bar, Proraso razor burn relief and some good old Nivea post shave balm (don't usually use either balm but my face was so sore !)

Ironically my face was still red until 7pm.
 
Bechet said:
7 O'clock Greens are the best blade going! Fact! Ask my father if you don't believe me - except you can't ask him.
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Probably good for everyone else but it's the first and only blade to skin me alive. A cheese grater would have been more comfortable. Could have been the combination of Ikon B1 OSS and blade, but I'm not going to try again. 'Once bitten' and all that.....
 
Purbeck said:
Probably good for everyone else but it's the first and only blade to skin me alive. A cheese grater would have been more comfortable. Could have been the combination of Ikon B1 OSS and blade, but I'm not going to try again. 'Once bitten' and all that.....
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Clearly, it was a duff blade - the first duff Green I've ever heard of!
 
FrankieG said:
Due to irritation they caused I won't shave again with Gillette 7 O'Clock Yellow, Derby or Feather blades.
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Had an absolutely horrendous shave this evening using my trusty 37C slant with a Gillette 7 O'clock blade(yellow). My chops looks like a blind cobblers thumb! What a bloody awful blade!!! Back to the Rapiras for me.
 
Very interesting views and I make notes of what not to buy in the future. In my experience of all the blades I've tried the only I wouldn't buy is the Jewel. The personna red, the feather, the Astra SP are all very good for me BUT depending on the razor and how many days growth I have. For instance, I just shaved with a Derby Extra (green packaging) with my Merkur Progress on setting 4 and 1.5 days growth and it was a fantastic shave. I guess the same blade on the Merkur 34 HD and 3 days growth and I'd be cursing the blade lol
 
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