After switching over to a DE 10 months ago, no one will ever convince me that I can get a great shave with a multi-blade cartridge. My neck is no longer chopped up and itchy and I no longer have ingrown hairs on my chin. The Force is strong. You will feel it soon and wish you didn't spend all of that money on Fusion cartridges. Welcome aboard.
Never, ever having had the slightest interest in one of the things, I can only reiterate my parting experience with Gillette hardware. When the Mach3 was brand new, I acquired a new one. In an attempt to shave with it, the quality was so shoddy that the cartridge head detached itself repeatedly. Junk. Trash.new to DE & wetshaving.Learned alot reading,watching & experimenting,thanx.I am able to get a tremendous shave with my fusion since I got my lathering technique down & don't think I could get a better shave with a DE.I am willing to continue the journey but am wondering if there are others that find the fusion the best thing since...?
+1 I gave away all my cart stuff 3 years ago and have not looked back!+1 - except the actual getting of a better shave here (and enjoying having a shave every day rather than it being something to dread every few days)
You could take the Trac II cartridge as an intermediate step. In my personal experience, when you can get good, irritation free, shaves from a Trac II, you can also shave with a DE razor. And the other way around (probably because the Trac II was developed for a public consisting mainly of DE shavers).I will keep trying out DE. If I can master it, I will stick with it, but right now I'm leaning towards M3. We shall see... (I really want DE to work out, though..)
My own take on the multi-bladed start is that sales growth flattened for both the larger classic razor producers, Gillette and Eversharp-Schick (I consider ASR / Gem to have been comparatively small sellers by then). The middle zone of married guys younger than 50-ish was heavily into electrics, and their wives put up with the poor shaves for some unknown reason.You could take the Trac II cartridge as an intermediate step. In my personal experience, when you can get good, irritation free, shaves from a Trac II, you can also shave with a DE razor. And the other way around (probably because the Trac II was developed for a public consisting mainly of DE shavers).