Just wanted to introduce myself, I am very new to DE shaving and I wish I had learned about this sooner. I have been butchering my face with cartridges for 20 years...and now, just a handful of shaves in, I realize what I have been missing.
My startup equipment is an Edwin Jagger Kelvin from Amazon (basically a DE89 from what I understand), a sample pack of Col. Conk's soap which I'm not really all that pleased with (most likely this is just from bad lathering technique but I'm doing my best LOL), and a sample pack of blades from Feather, Astra, Personna, Kai, and Gillette. I have tried them all to this point, and I am amazed at just how different everyone's experience is with blades...I really wanted to like the Personna's due to being made in the USA but they felt like I was dragging a cat's claw across my face.
Anyway...looking forward to learning all I can about this new (to me) method of shaving!
Thank goodness for DE razors