Razor: Mergress “Bling”
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Taylor of Old Bond Street Peppermint
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A little while ago we looked at a razor with a shaving aid – specifically a styptic pencil – in the handle. Turns out the basic idea was patented almost a decade before. Marcellin Eyraud Jr filed a patent in 1922 for a razor with a styptic pencil mounted in the handle in such a way that it would stay secure and dry.
Continue readingRazor: Mergress “Bling”
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Aftershave: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Additional Care: Alum Block
Continuing on the theme of razors with stuff in the handle, we have an early patent for a razor with a pair of tweezers. And those may be the least interesting detail on this safety razor. Filed in 1908 and granted the year after, John R Gilda came up with a simple, single edged safety razor. While no blade is shown separate on the drawings, it probably would take blades similar to the Christy razors. After all, a lot of razors did in the early part of last century.
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Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Pereira Shaving Soap Stick w/ activated charcoal
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Razor: Tatara Masamune
Blade: Wilkinson Sword
Brush: Omega #10048
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Goldex Nova Fórmula
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A little while ago I wrote about a 1931 patent on storing a shaving aid in the handle of a razor. And now I found a newer patent that cites that one. A patent for a razor with cleaning brush. A cleaning brush stored, unsurprisingly, in the handle of the razor.
Filed in 2008 and published two years later, there isn’t too much to the patent. There is a brush. It is stored in the handle. You use the brush to clean the razor. And that is, more or less, it.
Continue readingRazor: Tatara Masamune
Blade: Wilkinson Sword
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Pereira Shaving Soap Stick w/ activated charcoal
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
There have been no lack of patents for shocking, vibrating, oscillating, buzzing, and bulky safety razors over the years. Some were meant to be plugged into the electrical grid, and some were powered externally. But this patent for an electric safety razor, filed in 1937, were powered by an replaceable battery.
It was filed by Alexander Schaaf and Rudolf Schunermann, from Berlin-Charlottenburg and Nowawes1 respectively. The US patent office granted the patent in 1942, which is interesting since this was after Germany declared war on the US.
Continue readingRazor: Tatara Masamune
Blade: Wilkinson Sword
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Pre-Shave: Prep Original
Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps Pine & Cedarwood
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block