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Ok, firstly I'm not sure if this question is actually in the right board, so forgive me if it's not.
Question is quite basic:
Firstly, I'm living in India, but I also spend a lot of time in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. This has a bearing on the rest I'm going to ask about. I currently shave with a Gillette Vector, which I seem to remember has a different name in UK. More importantly, blades for this didn't seem to be availabe at all in Britan when I was last there (April-May this year), nor did I see them elsewhere in Europe that I was. Here in India they're widely available. This is one reason I'm thinking of changing to what I believe is called here a double edged razor. I'm sure you all know what I mean, anyway. Other reasons would be not wanting to throw away a bit of useless plastic and that green lubricating strip, or whatever it's called, every time a blade is (or rather, two blades are) blunt; and the idea that it could be cheaper!
So I want to know if all DE blades fit all DE razors? Can, say, Wilkinson blades be used with a Gillette razor? The only such razor I can find here, in India, is the Gillette 7 O'clock. I understand there are different types of razor like TTO, twist to open, but I confess I don't know what sort this 7 o'clock razor is. So in short I don't want to buy this only to find I can't get blades for it outside India. Or indeed to buy something else - Merkur or whatever - in UK only to find no blades for it elsewhere.
Did that make sense?
Question is quite basic:
Firstly, I'm living in India, but I also spend a lot of time in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. This has a bearing on the rest I'm going to ask about. I currently shave with a Gillette Vector, which I seem to remember has a different name in UK. More importantly, blades for this didn't seem to be availabe at all in Britan when I was last there (April-May this year), nor did I see them elsewhere in Europe that I was. Here in India they're widely available. This is one reason I'm thinking of changing to what I believe is called here a double edged razor. I'm sure you all know what I mean, anyway. Other reasons would be not wanting to throw away a bit of useless plastic and that green lubricating strip, or whatever it's called, every time a blade is (or rather, two blades are) blunt; and the idea that it could be cheaper!
So I want to know if all DE blades fit all DE razors? Can, say, Wilkinson blades be used with a Gillette razor? The only such razor I can find here, in India, is the Gillette 7 O'clock. I understand there are different types of razor like TTO, twist to open, but I confess I don't know what sort this 7 o'clock razor is. So in short I don't want to buy this only to find I can't get blades for it outside India. Or indeed to buy something else - Merkur or whatever - in UK only to find no blades for it elsewhere.
Did that make sense?