Razor: Mergress “Bling”
Blade: Treet Platinum
Lather: Prep “The Original Formula”
Aftershave: Krampert’s Finest 80 Below
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave of the day 16th June 2021
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Monthly Archives: June 2021
A 1917 Gillette advertisement
Shave of the day 14th June 2021
Razor: Mergress “Bling”
Blade: Treet Platinum
Lather: Prep “The Original Formula”
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave of the day 11th June 2021
Razor: Tatara Masamune
Blade: Treet Platinum
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: BullDog Sensitive Aftershave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block
Kickstarter – or “Adding shit to razors”
A while ago I learned that yet another safety razor is heading towards crowdfunding. Kickstarter is full of the things. Most are never fully funded, quite a few is existing manufacturers raising cash and awareness on new razors, some are outright scams, and some are… well, like this one. Let us rip it apart, shall we? See what bits makes sense in the context of shaving, and what bits that don’t.
Continue readingShave of the day 9th June 2021
Razor: Tatara Masamune
Blade: Treet Platinum
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Lather: Crabtree & Evelyn Sandalwood
Aftershave: BullDog Original Aftershave Balm
Samuel Schereschewskij’s device for lathering the beard
Not all interesting shaving related patents are written in English – the razor on a spring comes to mind – but I can still enjoy them thanks to a rudimentary grasp of other languages and automatic translation. Today I stumbled over a fun one written in German. It is Õsterreichische Patentschrift Nr 40136 by Dr Samuel Schereschewskij describing an “Vorrichtung zur Erzeugung von Seifenschaum und zum Einseifen des Bartes.”. Or, in English, a device for producing lather and for lathering the beard. You know; what most of us uses a shaving brush for today.
Continue readingShave of the day 7th June 2021
Razor: Tatara Masamune
Blade: Treet Platinum
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Lather: Jabonman Mediterráno L.E. BullGoose
Aftershave: BullDog Original Aftershave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave of the day 4th June 2021
Razor: Unknown Injection Moulded Semi Disposable
Blade: Treet Platinum
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Aftershave: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave Library – a straight razor wiki
Shave Library is a new wiki dedicated to shaving with a straight, tied to the Sharp Razor Palace forum. There is a lot of good information available on the wiki already, but like all good wikis it has room to grow.
A wiki is – as I’m sure most people know – a hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its users. In other words, it’s a fountain of shave gear knowledge everyone can add to.
The site focuses almost exclusively the classic straight, and while shavettes are mentioned there is little to nothing on Gillette style razors to be found. For those of us who prefers shaving with a safety razor, there is still good reads on the site. In particular I’ve enjoyed the DIY-section, since I like to tinker.
I learned about the Shave Library through ShaveFan, who I’ve written a post about before. And now that you learned about it through me, perhaps you should go have a look at Shave Library?