I had an interesting experience as part of my blade journey and I wanted to see if others had experienced anything similar.
As part of the strange experiment I'm conducting (over here), I tried a Tatra carbon-steel blade (made in the Czech Republic). It was terrible. Truly, truly awful in every way.
Now I'm on a Polsilver Super Iridium. It is every bit as wonderful as the Tatra was terrible. Fabulous blade!
However, I've noticed that not only was there a massive difference (obviously) in the shaving experience and results, the feeling of my face as the beard grew back in was also palpably different.
To whit: As the Tatra shave grew back in, it felt rough, sharp, jagged, and unpleasant, as if the hair tips had been shredded rather than sheared clean; whereas the SI shave has grown in comfortably, almost soft. I don't shave every day (every other day on average) and it's nice if my face on the day in between is, while obviously not clean-shaven, also not like having particularly nasty bit of sandpaper glued on.
I'm not sure to what extent it was a real thing, versus how much my perception might have been coloured by the ghastly experience of shaving with the Tatra versus the joyous glide of the Polsilver, but I really noticed it and wondered if others, who might have for whatever reason tried a blade that they really didn't get along with, might also have noticed this?
As part of the strange experiment I'm conducting (over here), I tried a Tatra carbon-steel blade (made in the Czech Republic). It was terrible. Truly, truly awful in every way.
Now I'm on a Polsilver Super Iridium. It is every bit as wonderful as the Tatra was terrible. Fabulous blade!
However, I've noticed that not only was there a massive difference (obviously) in the shaving experience and results, the feeling of my face as the beard grew back in was also palpably different.
To whit: As the Tatra shave grew back in, it felt rough, sharp, jagged, and unpleasant, as if the hair tips had been shredded rather than sheared clean; whereas the SI shave has grown in comfortably, almost soft. I don't shave every day (every other day on average) and it's nice if my face on the day in between is, while obviously not clean-shaven, also not like having particularly nasty bit of sandpaper glued on.
I'm not sure to what extent it was a real thing, versus how much my perception might have been coloured by the ghastly experience of shaving with the Tatra versus the joyous glide of the Polsilver, but I really noticed it and wondered if others, who might have for whatever reason tried a blade that they really didn't get along with, might also have noticed this?