Disburden...thanks for the support. I don't disagree at all, in fact, after all the "suffering" I went through learning how to do this before joining this site, well, all I can say is many thanks to all the various opinions and advice. And Gamma, I know exactly what you mean as well. I know that I can very likely live my life for some years, and far in the future die, and in the meantime do all my honing on a single coticule-BBW combo and do just fine at that. But, I feel that all the various results we achieve using different materials is what makes it all so darned interesting - and ultimately the ability to distinguish the effect of the shave.