I've been fairly silent about this topic but with a mere 3 years of SR shaving experience I am finally compelled to broach a topic regarding grinds. Different grinds seem to accommodate different beards. I say "seem" because with my beard, fairly light, I have found that the full hollow offers me the closest shave, and allows me to go for a couple of days between shaves, etc.. However, I have a 7/8ths Wade and Butcher 1/4 hollow that delivers an excellent shave for me whereas other quarter grinds and wedges just don't shave me close at all. I'm broaching this topic because I want to know, based on the veteran shavers experience here, does anyone find that identical grinds produced by different manufacturers perform very differently. To some extent they must, based on my limited experience, but do you think that that is due to different compositions of the steels being used, annealing processes, etc.. (Let me say, that to date, the most incredible performance I've been able to derive from a full hollow blade is with my Fritz Bracht Dovo. I've heard other members talk about the Bracht and didn't believe it till I used one. I can't imagine any razor producing a better shave. I wonder what they did differently to produce such a precision shaving instrument.)