Friday 30th April
French Pink Clay & Charcoal Face Soap
Meissner Tremonia 'Natural Brown' Bitter Almond & Texas Cedar
DSC w/Blonde Boar 24mm
Yaqi Katana DLC w/Star Bakelite Handle
7AM Plus Hi-Platinum (2)
Jovan Musk Aftershave Cologne
After being very impressed indeed with this 7AM Plus Hi-Platinum blade, todays shave was a good enough repeat ... if a little less smooth and a little less sharp. It's a blade I really like, being less fierce that the Lancet Sharp Edge Super Platinum from the off, but not lasting quite as long with that initial performance.
I'd be very happy indeed to use this blade again, as I would the Lancet Sharp Edge Super Platinum that I used a blade or two ago. Both have characters that stand them out, especially when compared against, say, the Gillette Winner Special Platinum but neither are as consistent or balanced as the Gillette.
From this little bunch of Subcontinent Super Platinums I've used recently, the scores are:
Gillette Winner Special Platinum - 9
Lancet Sharp Edge Super Platinum - 8.9
7AM Plus Super Platinum - 8.7
Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Platinum (Black) - 8.5
SuperMax Blue Diamond Platinum - 8.5
Zorrik Super Platinum (Latest Version) - 7.8
EuroMax Platinum - 7
Lancet Advance Plus Super Platinum - 6.9
Centwin Super Platinum - 6.5
Topaz Platinum - 6
Loads of fun!
... and to think, I went into this lot with the general impression that I don't like platinum blades and have come out with certainly the top 5 on that list that I'd happily keep in stock and consider all to have very different characteristics.