I recently acquired a Timeless with the 95Ti baseplate in scalloped. I have always had better luck shaving with thick single edge blades. My trouble spots seem to deflect the less rigid double edged blade in all but the most rigid clamping razors. Now that I have such a razor, and one that has some blade exposure as well, I began testing blades all over again. After I got my technique figured out. This is going to be a series of musings about how various blades perform in the same razor and assumes similar strategy/technique. I am at a point where I feel confident enough that any trouble I encounter is not my technique, I could be wrong. But if I am wrong, I don't care because I don't plan to do weird tricks to get an underperforming blade to work. The spoiler upfront, as I theorised beforehand, is that for my beard everything comes down to sharpness and how much of it my skin can handle.