Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp”
Blade: Personna Injector
Pre-Shave: Prep Original
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Colonia
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block & Barbossa Organic Sandalwood Beard Oil
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp”
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: The Lavish Gentleman Natural Strength Oil Cleanser
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Aftershave: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Additional Care: Alum Block & Barbossa Organic Sandalwood Beard Oil
There are a couple of common ways to make an adjustable safety razor. You can change the distance between the top cap and bottom plate, like the Gillette adjustable razors do. You can change the blade curvature, as done in the Rockwell and others. Or you can opt for the much less common idea of moving the guard back and forth, like J E Fuller’s 1890 patent hints at.
It was this less common way of doing things that features in Peter Bowman and Ernest F Kiraly’s patented adjustable safety razor. The application was filed in 1974, and granted the year after. The most novel thing is how adjustability was controlled.
Continue readingRazor: Schick “Lady Eversharp”
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Pre-Shave: The Lavish Gentleman Natural Strength Oil Cleanser
Lather: Pereira Shavery Orange Blossom w/ activated charcoal
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block & Barbossa Organic Sandalwood Beard Oil
In 1926 Rudolph C G Staats-Oels filed a patent for an improvement in safety razors. I’m not sure how much of an improvement it was. It was certainly novel, by the standards of the day. For starters, it was a slant. Or as the patent put it, it had a head:
Continue reading…wherein the transverse curvature of the blade will be gradually increased from one end toward the other thereof.
From US patent 1,633,139
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp”
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block & Barbossa Organic Sandalwood Beard Oil
Razor: Asylum Shave Works Evolution
Blade: Perma-sharp Super Stainless
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Lather: Cold River Soap Works Olfactory Hue
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Still poking around on digitalmuseum.no1 I found a much less workmanlike wedge razor than the previous one that I shared with you. Named the Bismarck razor, after the German statesman, the razor is mentioned in Waits’ Compendium.
Continue readingRazor: Asylum Shave Works Evolution
Blade: Perma-sharp Super Stainless
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Lather: CRSW Glide Morning Ghost
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block & Barbossa Organic Sandalwood Beard Oil
While I’m personally a big fan of vintage razors in all forms, new manufacture traditional safety razors are being released frequently. One of the latest I’ve heard about is the Asylum Rx Gen II, soon to be released by Phil from BullGoose Shaving. And he recently showed it of on YouTube.
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