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What is your favorite lesser-known blade?

I've always been a fan of Shark Super Stainless although admittedly I don't use them as often as I once did, shifting more to my Tier 1 blades (Nacets, Perma-Sharps, Astras, etc.).
Three Treet blades have impressed me in admittedly limited use: the Falcon, the Carbon Steel and the Dura Sharp.
I'm spending all of Shark Week with a SS. I think for me it needs to go in a very aggressive razor. I didn't like it in a Lord L6 and will try it with a Fatip Grande and Yaqi Knight Helmet next.

What razor did you use with the Super Stainless?
 
It seems like, back when I first started using Gillette Nacet a number of years ago, it was a "lesser-known" blade. Then I drifted away from the forum and, when I came back recently, half the people on here had apparently become fans of Gillette Nacet. It feels kind of weird.

As for still-lesser-known blades? Rapira Swedish Supersteel.
 
Never found I need nothing but a Gillette Blue Blade, long time ago, was cheap, consistent, and available every where like corner drug store.
 
Ladas super stainless
Seconded. A well-behaved and consistant blade pretty much identical to the Rapira SS.

Smooth, good for 5 nice shaves. They were on sale here for £5.99 a 100 so I picked up 400. Sweet medium sharp blade.
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Ran a lovely shave with an English 1948 Aristocrat No.21, but it seems to get on pretty much with all my collection.
 
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Ladas super stainless

They are my go-to blade for traveling, because they do great on shave #1, and I don't feel bad about tossing them after only one shave. All the Moscow blades I've tried (other than Voskhod) have performed similarly to each other. I've only tried a few, though.


Well, I'd never heard of them till just now. Cool!

I don't know if these are lesser-known, but I find them really smooth!

I've heard of them a few times on this forum, but that's it. Definitely lesser-known.
 
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