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I have had a good experience with many of the blades from India.
Recently tried these ones and have to say for such a low cost blade £5 for 200 ! they are very good.
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I'm loving Vokshod at the moment, so I've just bought Rapiras etc.to trial on the off chance that Russia does it for me. Certainly Russian Gillette 7 o'clock greens suit me far better than Indian yellows. Worst case? It's a nick/weeper and two quid of blades. Best - you've got a keeper or a least a regular. Seriously, Vokshod was ordered as a "cool" addition to a multipack noob order, and I'm really impressed. But some other recommendations haven't worked for me at all. And I'm enjoying getting little packs of tucks to experiment with alongside the burgeoning selection of paraphernalia
Of all Gillette DE blades currently in production I would say this is the least known as well as least respected. I have tinkered with a few tucks in the past few years and will be frank in stating that these are a surprisingly good blade, believe it or not. I used one ages ago and hated it, but the "wand" was not at fault so much as the magician. With time and honing of technique some blades that were once viewed as wretched are now doted upon, e.g., this one and the Bic Chrome Platinum.
I am guessing in saying that this 365 blade doesn't have the quality of coating and hardened edge as their more expensive blades and read that Indian barbers use these as "one & done". I can get at least three superb shaves from this blade and as a bonus it thrives in my favorite razor: the Tech.
As an interesting side note, on another forum a keen observer (and user of this blade) noticed that it was made in both Indian manufactories, Bhiwadi and Baddi, or that production had shifted from one to the other and that in his opinion the quality had improved. Well, I had tuck of the older 5 +1 blades and ordered a few new ones from razorblades.com just out of curiosity and boredom. The newer ones did indeed seem smoother or perhaps I was imagining things.
Oh well, the next time you order blades try a tuck. You may be surprised.
@Bogeyman , my bad. I had in my head that yellows were Indian. I can't see a country of manufacture on my pack - Arabic writing for the market there but that's it. That blows my Russia theory out of the water then!I think you meant Russian Yellows.
The problem with Vokshod is universally known: awful QC. One batch is fine and the next duller than a temperance speech.
7OC sharpedge yellow pack - Russian
7OC super stainless green pack - Russian
7OC permasharp stainless green pack-Indian
There are a couple more as well, discontinued and unobtainium. I have all of them and will do a "group" photo for you people in a few days.
So in addition to the ones above, PPI Green & Yellow, Indian Green & Black, there was PPI Blue, and the seldom seen Indian 7 Diamond. Were there any others?
...I guess when folks just had a Gillette Tech and were limited to a small selection of soaps, the variable factors were indeed much less. Now we're using any given blade with a myriad of prep/soap/razor combinations and almost never the same shave twice, it's no surprise that opinions of blades vary so wildly.
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