Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Peppermint Soap
Lather: Dalan d’Men Energic
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M unbleached pure horse
Razor: Cadet TP-01 with a PolSilver Super Iridium
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Nivea Cooling After Shave Balm
Beard care: Scotch Porter Beard Balm and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Lately I’ve been noticing an increase in traffic at my blog, and I just noticed a lot of it is coming from Mantic59’s Sharpologist blog. So welcome to my corner of the internet, feel free to look around and hopefully you’ll like what you see.
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Lavender Soap
Lather: Mike’s Natural Hungarian Lavender Soap
Brush: Turkish No6 ‘horse hair’
Razor: Cadet TP-01 with a PolSilver Super Iridium
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Proraso Liquid Cream After Shave
Beard care: Scotch Porter Beard Balm and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Picked up 14th March 2017.
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Peppermint Soap
Lather: Mike’s Natural Peppermint & Rosemary Soap
Brush: Semogue “The Shave Nook 2012 Limited Edition” mixed boar-badger
Razor: Cadet TP-01 with a PolSilver Super Iridium
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Proraso Liquid Cream After Shave
Beard care: Scotch Porter Beard Balm and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Eucalyptis Soap
Lather: Mike’s Natural Pine & Cedarwood Soap
Brush: Vie-Long #14033 mixed horse-badger
Razor: Cadet TP-01 with a PolSilver Super Iridium
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Myrsol Agua Balsamico
Beard care: Scotch Porter Beard Balm and Big Red No7 Beard Comb
Seems like the cranks simply don’t give up… and the patent office keeps granting patents like the one they granted to Maurice A Keller in 1957.
On the surface this is much like the one I talked about a couple of days ago… but if you go deeper you’ll find that it’s exactly like that one. Place razor in device, then wait for the magic…
As for the specific claims;
Magnetic razor blade sharpeners heretofore known have generally been inconvenient to use because they required disassembly of the razor so that the blades could be inserted into a suitable magnetic sharpener.
Uhm.. the previous one didn’t require you to dissemble the razor either.
These types of Sharpeners have not been successful because they required the provision of large horseshoe type magnets which are very expensive; or else they required magnets of special shapes not generally available as stock mass produced items.
I’ll kind of grant Mr Keller that claim, except they have not been successful because magnetism don’t work that way.
Becasue reasons.
Cranks and quacks tells uss that after pyramids, magnets is just the thing to keep razor blades sharp… or as John S Forbes states in his 1930 patent on a magnetic razor-conditioning device:
…a simple and effective means of producing or maintaining a good edge on a razor blade by magnetic influence.
While the patent description is somewhat tortured and hard to follow, it seems like the basic idea was that storing your razor on a magnet should keep the blade sharp. Needless to say, reality don’t work like that.
Pre-shave: Dr Bronners Citrus Soap
Lather: Mike’s Natural Lemongrass & Eucalyptus Soap
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Razor: Cadet TP-01 with a fresh PolSilver Super Iridium
Post-shave: Cool water rinse, alum, and Myrsol Agua De Limón
Beard care: Scotch Porter Beard Balm and Big Red No7 Beard Comb