What is your all time worst blade?

Merkur was probably the worst, but Baili was awful, and I don't put anything Chinese in my razor, either. Too many good blades to even wade into those awful waters.

Indian Wilkies. Couldn't even finish my first pass the first time I used them. Tried them again a few months later and still felt terrible.

Dorco 301 worked for me.

I posted this somewhere else.  A  fellow then tried a 301 . He then posted that he was surprised that they were so good.

I believe that this is the correct name.

And this is why YMMV probably applies more to blades than any other piece of hardware or software in the wet shaving world.

Isn't it the ST 300 that's awful and and the 301 is better?

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Isn't it the ST 300 that's awful and and the 301 is better?

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For me, they were both bad. The 301 was slightly better but still pretty bad.

I've used a bunch of different kinds of blades, but only two didn't work for me: Merkur and Voskhod. Granted, I only gave them each one shave, but life's too short to risk a second. Lucky I only had one Merkur, but I believe I'll be PIFing the 99 Voskhods I've got left. Or pawn them off on my son...

I have to agree on the Astra SP's. I have been through 5 blades of my pack. I can only do a 2 pass shave, never against the grain with them, which I can comfortably do with others. Even more interestingly, it seems there was a fair amount of blade to blade variability in the pack for me as well. One blade was dreadful, 3 blades were mediocre, and 1 blade was quite good. Not to mention, I can't get nearly as close a shave with them as I can with other blades.
-Chris

You shouldn't have any trouble unloading the Vokshods as I believe that there are a few fans on DFS. I have a few and they are ok in the right razor for me.
Mark

I can get a decent are reasonably comfortable shave from just about everything I've tried with one exception. I've tried Shark blades four or five times and they were awful(for me). All the tugging and scraping, it kind of felt like the first straight razor I tried to hone. I've tried them in both mild and aggressive razors and a Parker shavette and had to finish with a different blade every time.

Bic. I doubt if I will ever try anything worse as my experimentation has ended. I have no reason to use anything but the PSI and 7 O'Clock Black blades.