Sunday 13th June
Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
Meissner Tremonia Dark Limes Rasierpaste
Yaqi Daffodil w/Cashmere Synthetic 24mm
Yaqi SE DLC w/Star Bakelite Handle
Cloud 'Bruce Lee' Super Stainless (2)
Meissner Tremonia Dark Limes Aftershave
Return of the Dragon
Back to the Cloud Bruce Lee blade for a second run through my Yaqi SE DLC. I've alternated this with the regular Cloud Super Stainless in my other Yaqi SE razor. I've found the blades to be identical other than packaging ... and if you can put Bruce Lee on a pack of razors, it's going to get noticed.
While I find these blade okay to use, they're certainly not refined. There are any number of better stainless blades out there and equally a good number worse. I find the smoothness, or rather rawness, to be about the same as with Ladas or Rapira Stainless and perhaps Shark Super Stainless but the sharpness is better than the first two from Rapira, not as sharp as the Shark.
First shaves were rough and ready, but shaved efficiently with a single pass. Remember that in the single side format razor, this is like doing a couple of shaves, and so when I get to the second run through it's like the third or fourth shave in a regular double sided razor. To that end, I'd say that these blades are fine first go, probably as good for a second and possibly okay for a third shave.
I struggle to justify them, though ...
If you want a retro-car without power steering where you feel every bump in the road and are fully connected to the wheels as you go around corners, then (shifting that metaphor to shaving) you drop in a Shark Super Stainless and hold on. That would be my advice, anyway. Having made comparisons to the Ladas and Rapira Stainless, I guess that's a good comparison given those two blades are largely ignored for the same reason - there are, simply, better blades out there.
Fun to try, mind.