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My first shave with this blade was smooth and trouble free, the second was a different affair, like using a broken bottle, anybody else had the same experience.
Unless many others are having a similar experience, with a difference you seem to be describing as quite huge, I'd be tempted to examine if there were inadvertent differences in prep or technique.
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Same prep everything 100% as the 1st shave
Fair enough. It's an interesting observation. Unfortunately, I have no direct experience with this blade.
I find that when I think I have a bad blade, or the performance of my blade has suddenly dropped off a cliff, it's usually a problem with my lather for that particular shave. On subsequent shaves, if my lather is good, the bum blade suddenly starts to work better again.
Have you noticed this problem with any other blades, or just the Dorco?
Have you noticed this problem with any other blades, or just the Dorco?
This for me. Love my Prime, Dorco Prime Time, BABY!!!!
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Everything was good, same prep, same cream and brush.
The Primes are surprisingly good blades for me, way better than other Dorco that I have tried.
Primes are good blades. Sharp, smooth and a decent value.
It's a mystery. Everyone seems to like the Dorco Primes, but they just didn't work for me. I bought something like 50 or 60 and had to get rid of them. I really think that I gave them a fair trial.
I had always resisted trying Dorco blades based on the expectation that they would not be sharp enough for my beard. However, after some reading some reviews of the Dorco Prime Platinum blades another forum member sent me several blades to test. If found them to be both sharp and smooth, so I ordered another 100 blades. I have not yet tried the sblades in my full range of razors from a very mild VDH TTO (Tech clone) to the aggressive R41, but they work quite well in mid-moderate razors like the EJ DE89. I get about three shaves from a DE blade before it becomes either too dull for my beard or too rough for my skin. This pattern seems to hold for the Dorco Prime Platinums as well.
There are Dorcos from Korean and Vietnam, which one do you have?
The Dorco Prime blades I received are from Korea.
That may be the problem, I have from Vietnam and are excellents
My Dorco Primes are Korean and are fine. I call them "enhanced AstraSP".
Mine are from Vietnam as well. The Korean blades are older, I believe, but they've also received good reviews on this board. When I first bought the Dorco Primes in my blade stash, which was right around the time of the change in manufacturing locations, I was hoping for Korean blades and was disappointed when the Vietnamese blades showed up. The Vietnamese blades do seem to shave well, but I've never tried the Korean blades.
Either you missed a hyphen or you found the eternal blade.
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