The drawer option is for now the best one. When I started I was scared ****less from my qshave futul aka Sunday bloody bloody freakin every time I use it.
So you store it and carefully try other razors and you notice they need the right blade for that razor and you. Sometimes you find the combo for a proper duet sometimes never.
But someday I found that a Gillette silver blue made my butcher a very comfy shaver. And I am pretty sure that some of the razors I did not like or did not like me were poorly matched and might have liked them a looooot better with the right blade.
Nothing wrong to get a second Gillette and flog the merkur.
But try a Gillette silver blue in the Gillette first. If that more or less shaves the same put it in the merkur.
Why the gsb? Because that is a close relative to the blades which came with it but a lot cheaper.
FYI there is a discussion going on if those blades are unique or rebranded gilette 7 o clock black.
So you store it and carefully try other razors and you notice they need the right blade for that razor and you. Sometimes you find the combo for a proper duet sometimes never.
But someday I found that a Gillette silver blue made my butcher a very comfy shaver. And I am pretty sure that some of the razors I did not like or did not like me were poorly matched and might have liked them a looooot better with the right blade.
Nothing wrong to get a second Gillette and flog the merkur.
But try a Gillette silver blue in the Gillette first. If that more or less shaves the same put it in the merkur.
Why the gsb? Because that is a close relative to the blades which came with it but a lot cheaper.
FYI there is a discussion going on if those blades are unique or rebranded gilette 7 o clock black.