Sorry, Eeyore. I don't buy it.
If someone says, "I think X is a little more comfortable than Y, so I spend twice as much because I like the small improvement and blades are cheap", I fully understand them. If someone said, "I get a 10-15% improvment in feel using GSBs...", I believe them as part of YMMV.
When someone says, "X turns my face into hamburger but Y is butter smooth in the same razor", I view that as the equivalent of someone telling me THEIR F-150 gets 87 mpg. It is silly. There just isn't that much difference mechanically. Some? Maybe. I kind of like the GSBs I've tried recently. I kind of think Astra blades might be a little smoother than my long-time standby of Derby...by 5%.
5% difference, or 10%? I believe. 15%? Well, that seems a bit of a stretch, but I'd believe it. YMMV.
500% difference, from hamburger to butter? I'm not buying it any more than I buy the idea of someone getting 87 mpg in their stock pickup truck.
I'll be interested in what Marquis_De_Wyld finds. If someone posted pictures of new Derby blades with edges like trash cans while Feathers look like knives, it would at least give a person REASON to think. But someone saying they can put a Derby in their favorite razor and have their face torn apart? Not a chance.
If someone says, "I think X is a little more comfortable than Y, so I spend twice as much because I like the small improvement and blades are cheap", I fully understand them. If someone said, "I get a 10-15% improvment in feel using GSBs...", I believe them as part of YMMV.
When someone says, "X turns my face into hamburger but Y is butter smooth in the same razor", I view that as the equivalent of someone telling me THEIR F-150 gets 87 mpg. It is silly. There just isn't that much difference mechanically. Some? Maybe. I kind of like the GSBs I've tried recently. I kind of think Astra blades might be a little smoother than my long-time standby of Derby...by 5%.
5% difference, or 10%? I believe. 15%? Well, that seems a bit of a stretch, but I'd believe it. YMMV.
500% difference, from hamburger to butter? I'm not buying it any more than I buy the idea of someone getting 87 mpg in their stock pickup truck.
I'll be interested in what Marquis_De_Wyld finds. If someone posted pictures of new Derby blades with edges like trash cans while Feathers look like knives, it would at least give a person REASON to think. But someone saying they can put a Derby in their favorite razor and have their face torn apart? Not a chance.