Nice review on these bladesI finally gave Lord's Rainbow DE Blades a first try today...
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They come in a similar high quality card box and paper wrapping, that Lord's Sharks do - 4 colour, varnished, heavy card outer, with a thick glossy inner paper wrapping - , with the "Rainbow" branding printed prominently on the blade. The blade itself has an unusual copper hue and the inner wrapper appears slightly larger than need be. I head and face shave daily, starting with my head, ATG. I so much wanted these blades to perform as I love the graphics and Lord's Sharks, Silver Star and Asco orange fit me like a glove...alas the blade failed to perform, it struggled to cut one day's hair growth on my head. I ended up switching out the blade for an Asco — normal service was resumed. Lord's Rainbow's received a lot of love about 10 yrs ago, so I am at a loss as to why it did not perform for me, as I can usually make any blade work and can not recall switching out a blade. It maybe the blade edges were damaged in transit (certainly not during unwrapping as I exercise care when unwrapping a blade; Lord has downgraded the blade; they are not genuine Lord blades; poorly stored / old perished stock or I just had an off day. I will give them another go but my perception of these blades may already be coloured. The one positive was that it confirmed how good Lord's Sharks, Silver Star and Asco's work for me.
Paul, there are a few I can think of aside from the ones you've mentioned. Aside from the standard Lord Platinum and Asco Platinum there are a few lesser known ones which seem to have gone under the radar.
There are the Lord Captain blades, which are carbon steel. £30 for a 100 on Ebay.
These Lord Super's, which I've never seen elsewhere aside from here.
Also, from this thread, Bolzano blades are no longer made in Germany but in Egypt, presumably by Lord. I'm not sure whether that means the Elios blade is also made by them.
The Lord Captain Carbon Steel sound interesting...do you have a link for the ebay seller?' as nothing is showing...thx...
ok...thxIt seems it's no longer for sale, the only place which has them in stock are TryaBlade in shavette format.
I had had a similar thought re Lords being essentially a "currently produced vintage Wilkinson" and thought that the Lord Big Ben might be similar to the vintage Wilkinson London Bridge. The name and packaging of Lord Big Ben are clearly an allusion to the vintage Wilkinsons:
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But reviews of the Big Ben seem to be not so great, while the reputation of Wilkinson London Bridge are quite good. Perhaps someone here has tried both?
I second that, the platinum is very smooth.I have used and still have some of the Big Ben blades that I was gifted by a buddy. All I'll say is that when it comes to Lord DE blades skip the rest and go straight to their flagship blade Platinum.
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