Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
We have seen many many people who come on the forums with similar concerns and then come back a couple weeks later and are amazed at the difference that couple weeks of practice and learning has helped them.
I second that. By now I've got less then 10 shaves of experience, but the difference between the first and last is phenomenal.
I bought a € 15,- blade prehoned by the previous owner and didn't strop the first time I used it. On the cheeks it shaved fine, but everywhere else it pulled like a diesel. My stropping made it even worse the next two shaves, but I gradually got the hang of stropping, prepping and shaving. Seriously, it gets better every single shave. I even got some BBS spots yesterday!

About the quality of your blade. Almost every single experienced member here defends Lynn&Don and vouches for the quality of their blades. That many ppl can't be wrong, right? Either that or Lynn&Don deserve major props for applying Advanced Marketing and using the entire site as a big propaganda machine, but imho that sounds highly unlikely.