I bought 100 Voskhods off ebay seller unuta77. I have had these blades from different vendors in the past and loved them but these are rough on the first shave and completely unusable for a second.
Wouldn't discount the Voskhods but would advise staying away from this seller.
As a newbie I thought I would take a scientific approach and do a spreadsheet to see which blade got the most thumbs down so that I could avoid buying that brand. After a few pages I realised that this was a hopeless task with too mmany variables affecting the judgement of the user. In addition, it soon became apparent that what I had thought was an ok blade especially with a given razor that it would be on others 'never buy again' list, so the criteria for not buying that blade was different to my own.
With only a limited number of exceptions, am I right in thinking that a good performing blade is part of a three way partnership with the razor and soap being at least equal partners?
As I said, I have been DE shaving for three weeks and only used three blades and two razors in that time so I suspect that I have taken an approach that is too simplistic.
I also tried to make a pseudo-scientific comparison of blades, but got myself hopelessly flummoxed after a while. My problem is that I am rather over-provided with razors, which means a whole raft more of variables enter the equations. It's obviously easier to do comparisons with fewer razors and blades, but even then, the permutations start to multiply.Your observations are very astute, and I agree with the points you have made.
I've been trying to compare a few blades recently, and I'd use two different blades over two consecutive days and keep all the other variables fixed (razor, soap, prep, amount of growth, number of passes etc) and works to examine a particular blade in a particular razor on the first day but it becomes nearly impossible to examine a blade after the first shave and personally my favourite blades seem to be at their best after a few shaves.
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