I tried that, they aren't nearly good enough to remove my stubble and they take quite a long time to use.
For now I do electric and then finish up with a Gilette battery powered something.
Re:Can Reddit Grow Up?
by vanderZwan on Monday July 28, 2014 @03:59PM
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The best solution really varies from person to person - how hard/soft you hair and skin is and such. There's also a somewhat different technique to it, but I'm if you've tried a DE razor you've looked that up.
In my case, I guess I'm pretty lucky - the morning shower is enough to soften the hairs and stubble, and if I shave immediately after leaving the shower it only takes only a few minutes.
But that only goes to show how ridiculously expensive and wasteful a 5-blade cassette would be in my situation.
Arguably, the whole reason the big name companies get away with 5-blade nonsense is marketing. Meanwhile, on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/wicked_edge
(I'm speaking as someone who has switched to a double-edge razor and couldn't be happier)
As is discussed elsewhere in this thread, the whole concept of specialist sub-reddits makes it easy for enthusiasts to share information on their own. Mods with an iron fist, combined with comments and upvotes can be quite a decent makeshift version of democratic peer review among hobbyists. Of course, this has lots of issues of its own, but the point is that it subverts (the in my opinion ethically icky) aspects of marketing - the only thing you can really do against that is either genuinely make a good product, or be evil and subvert a community from the inside somehow.