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Mitch,

I've only used Shark DE blades, not the shavette variety - whether or not there's a difference would be a question for someone else. I can say that I'm not a fan of the Shark brand though....

Corking is the practice of running a blade over a piece of cork (a wine cork works well :)) once or twice, the idea being that it will dull an extremely sharp edge down to a more comfortable level. ...

To be fair, many a newbie has taken this route and come out (more or less) unscathed :). It's not the direction I went, but some guys have good luck with shavettes and others have cut themselves to...