A fine Friday shave, and the last use of the VC2 for now. Next up in rotation is me double edged razors.
Injectors can be complicated razors, even when meant to be simple. The forerunners of injectors were more complicated still. But today I have a nice find for you all; a very simple sheet metal injector. Patented by A William H Camfield in 1936, the patent was assigned to the Magazine Repeating Razor Co – the people behind the Schick Magazine Razors.1
The invention was touted as an improved and simplified form of safety razor and magazine, which also was cheap to manufacture.
Continue readingThe answer is, according to this 1925 advertisement, no. A statement which, no doubt, a certain John Teetgen would agree with.
Which is why you needed to buy an Auto Strop. Because that can be honed every time you shave. So it don’t turn into a saw.
Good for may shaves, but they cleverly don’t say how many.
A minty fresh Monday shave. The VC2 still performs well, and i find that the blades lasts as well as most blades do.
Yet another fine Friday shave. The VC2 impresses me more and more as I keep getting to know it better.
A mellow midweek shave.
In this new edge guard dispenser.
Apparently that new edge guard dispenser was just as important as the blade, because they mention it three times in half a minute.
New edge guard dispenser.
New week, new shave, and a return to the VC2.