There is an app for that – part IV

I have previously mentioned how I found, started to use, and got statistics from the app Shaving Buddy. I liked the app well enough that I sprung for the paid version, and I ended up recommending it to all who need to keep tabs on their shaves. I still do, with one annoying caveat; part of the app seems to be broken.

Well, two parts. But one of them was a part I never used, so…

Until November 1st last year, the app would automagically upload your shave to the cloud and give you an unique URL for it. I never used it, so it is not important to me that it do not work any more.

But what is important to me is that up until the same date Shaving Buddy would easily share my shave with other apps on my phone – such as the WordPress app I use to write my blog. So since that functionality is busted… I am a bit annoyed.

Not annoyed enough to stop using Shaving Buddy, mind you. I can copy-paste my shave into WordPress, so it just takes a few seconds longer. That, and I got almost ten years of shaving data stored in the app – I am not going to give that up easily. But I am annoyed enough to tell you all about it.

I have sent feedback on the fact that it is broken. I have not gotten any response from the developer.

Still a good app. Just a little bit broken.

Shave of the day 28th February 2024

  • Razor: Schick Type B2
  • Blade: Personna Injector
  • Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
  • Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
  • Lather: Pereira Shavery Shaving Cream w/ Activated Charcoal
  • Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
  • Additional Care: Alum Block
SOTD 2024 02 28

A humpday shave on the second to last day of the shortest month.

Combined three positioned shaving brush and lather rubber…

Retractable brushes is nothing new. A combined multi-position shaving brush with a built in lather rubber device? That’s more unusual.

Patented by Leon Tobias in 1920, the brush was – of course – touted as a new and improved shaving brush. In the words of the patent:

This invention relates to improvements in shaving brushes, an object of the invention being to provide a shaving brush equipped with the ordinary bristles for forming and distributing lather and also provided with means for rubbing the lather into the face to soften the heard, the parts so constructed and arranged as to permit either the bristles or the rubbing device to be exposed for use at the end of suitable handle.

From US patent 1,358,597
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Shave of the day 26th February 2024

  • Razor: Schick Type B2
  • Blade: Personna Injector
  • Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
  • Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
  • Lather: B&M Latha Oceana
  • Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
  • Additional Care: Alum Block
SOTD 2024 02 26

New week, and time for the other Holy Grail razor I’m lucky enough to own.

Shave of the day 23rd February 2024

  • Razor: Schick Type A
  • Blade: Schick Injector
  • Brush: Vie-Long #14033
  • Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
  • Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps Pine & Cedarwood
  • Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
  • Additional Care: Alum Block
SOTD 2024 02 23

Last shave for now with the Schick Type A. Next week I’ll turn to the Type B.

Disposable cylindrical razor apparatus

Whenever I see a patent with a particularly odd name, like “disposable cylindrical razor apparatus”, I wonder if Leonardo da Quirm1 was involved somehow.

So what is a disposable cylindrical razor apparatus? When all is said and done, it is a disposable razor in an odd format. Disposable razors is nothing new, and I’ve covered a few over the years – some in weird shapes. But what makes this one stick out is that it comes with four cutting surfaces, and looks to be meant to be used as a shavette.

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Shave of the day 19th February 2024

  • Razor: Schick Type A
  • Blade: Schick Injector
  • Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
  • Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
  • Lather: Dr Selby Lavender
  • Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
  • Additional Care: Alum Block
SOTD 2024 02 19

New week, but with injector blades lasting longer than most DE-blades I keep the same fun razor.