More light fare for summer. Perhaps Elmer should think a little before he has his head turned by a pretty skirt?
Bugs Bunny: The Rabbit of Seville
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Woody: The Barber of Seville
More light fare for summer. The key take-away is to make sure your barber is qualified.
A clean shaven man
A bit of lighter fare – but the key take-away is that the ladies likes a smooth cheek 😉
The Razor of To-day
Well, if ‘today’ was one hundred and thirteen years ago, that is. Straight from the pages of “Hardware and housewares“, the advertisement is delightfully simple for the time. A tagline, and a drawing of an Gillette Old Type razor and some blades. No wall of text, as other ads had. Instead the image has to carry the message.
Even today, about a hundred and twenty years after the Old Type was introduced, this would be a pretty sweet setup. Well, not would be – it is a sweet setup. There is a reason why I got an Old Type in my rotation, and why my travel razor is a 1918’s Service Set.
I’m a little sceptical to the old carbon blades, but that is because any you can get today is – unsurprisingly – old.
Sheet metal injector
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 readingWould you shave with a saw?
The 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.
Better Personna Stainless Blade
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.
Fathers Day Gift
Sometimes, selecting just the right Father’s Day gift can be quite a problem.
But fear not, for Gillette has – or rather had, before they turned to the dark side and started offering plastic cartridge razors – a new and unique answer.
A complete compact vacation travel kit, with travel sizes of Gillette good grooming products. Also have space for a toothbrush and toothpaste.
Cheap too. Or at least, the 1955 price appears cheap to us, almost seventy years later.
The Simens Razor Sharpener Patent
A couple of days ago I shared a video I found on the restoration of a Simens razor sharpener. And guess what? I’ve now found the patent for it. Filed by Ferdinand Souczeck in 1933, the patent was applied for in – as far as I can tell – Czechoslovakia, Austria, and USA.
I’m not sure if Ferdinand worked for Simens, of if they simply bought the rights of him. What I do know is that Simens must have manufactured the device in several places. The one I own is clearly marked as made in Sweden, while other examples I found online is marked with Austria, Japan, USA, USSR, and elsewhere.
Continue readingRestoration of a Siemens razor blade sharpener
Yes, I know it has been making the rounds, but I did find this video very interesting – in particular because I own one myself, in much better shape (thankfully) than the one this guy started out with.
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