I know that the English WS blades have/had a great reputation but I never tried them, and since they are hard to obtain wouldn't really want to. However, the local £ shop sell the current German WS blades for 3 boxes for £2 so I tried a pack. I'm liking them quite a lot and wonder if they are well regarded also or perhaps if not have they just suffered from being not as good as the English ones. Of course it might just be that my mileage has varied, but I've not been able to find many people expressing a view.