Razor: “Normal”
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Omega #10048
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave of the day 30th June 2023
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Monthly Archives: June 2023
Birthday week e-book sale!
My birthday is coming up. And it is a round number too. So to celebrate, I’m offering digital copies of my first book for free!
It is a meandering look at the history of shaving, as seen through patents from the last century and a half. Somewhat serious, somewhat humorous, with quite a bit of snark. The book explores a wide range of ideas ranging from electrically heated razors to plug into the light fixtures, magnetic pseudoscience, and of course the ever present vibrating razors. And you’ll find a few sensible razors that were the right idea at the wrong time in there too.
What I appreciate the most is the author’s commentary. He points out the most interesting aspects of the patent in a couple of short paragraphs. This isn’t always obvious from the patent drawing itself, so the author has done the work of reading through the patent and describing the vision and features of the invention.
Dennis, review on Amazon
So from Monday 3rd July and for five days you can grab some free summer reading!
Shave of the day 28th June 2023
Razor: “Normal”
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Taylor of Old Bond Street Peppermint
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A minty fresh Wednesday shave. Don’t rhyme as well as it would have done on Monday, but it felt great on a muggy morning.
Dollarstore find
So I was visiting a newly opened dollarstore (no, not a type – that is the company name) and spotted something I just had to take a couple of photos of.
Continue readingNo shave of the day 26th June 2023
Because yesterday I went to an actual barbershop and got a straight razor shave, that’s why. My cheeks are still smooth 28 hours later, and my skull is practically gleaming.
The whole thing was – as usual – most enjoyable. And left me with no need to shave the day after.
Totally not my usual thing: Hedgehog
So I was out in the garden the other day… thankfully with the good camera
Continue readingShave of the day 23rd June 2023
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A fine Friday shave on a sunny morning
Design for a shaving-mug
Design patents are a different breed. A utility patent, which most of the patents I write about are, protects a new new or improved – and useful – product, process, or machine. A design patent, on the other hand, covers any any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. Designs like Herman Griebel’s design for a shaving-mug, which he got a 3½ years design patent for in November of 1882.
Continue readingShave of the day 21st June 2023
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Brush Experimental Alpha
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Arko Shavestick
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A quick midweek shave, with a shavestick moshed into a tub and a brush I made myself. I should get the lathe out again and make some more.
Traveller’s shaving-mug
We can’t shave at home all the time. As I recently lived through, sometimes we have to shave elsewhere. And one thing I did miss was a traveller’s shaving-mug – like the one Henry E Biggins filed a patent for on 1911. It looks very neat and handy, even a hundred and twelve years later.
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