- Razor: Phillips Philite
- Blade: Lord Platinum
- Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
- Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
- Lather: Pereira Shavery Baron’s Choice
- Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Shave of the day 28th June 2024
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Shave of the day 26th June 2024
- Razor: Phillips Philite
- Blade: Lord Platinum
- Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
- Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
- Lather: Dr Selby Lavender
- Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
- Additional Care: Alum Block
A wee Wednesday shave while on vacation
Shave of the day 24th June 2024
- Razor: Phillips Philite
- Blade: Lord Platinum
- Brush: Omega #10048
- Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
- Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
- Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
- Additional Care: Alum Block
Another fine shave to start a sunny week
Shave of the day 21st June 2024
- Razor: Merkur (?) NOS Bakelite Slant
- Blade: Lord Platinum
- Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
- Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
- Lather: Pereira Shavery Baron’s Choice
- Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
- Additional Care: Alum Block
Another fine Friday shave on a sunny day.
Shave of the day 19th June 2024
- Razor: Merkur (?) NOS Bakelite Slant
- Blade: Lord Platinum
- Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
- Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
- Lather: Taylor of Old Bond Street Peppermint
- Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
- Additional Care: Alum Block
A minty fresh midweek shave.
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.
Shave of the day 17th June 2024
- Razor: Merkur (?) NOS Bakelite Slant
- Blade: Lord Platinum
- Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
- Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
- Lather: Pereira Shavery Orange Blossom w/ activated charcoal
- Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
- Additional Care: Alum Block
A nice Monday shave as I start my vacation.
Shave of the day 14th June 2024
- Razor: Autostrop VC2
- Blade: Feather FHS-10
- Brush: Vie-Long #14033
- Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
- Lather: Brutalt Bra TSN LE / Norwegian Wood
- Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
- Additional Care: Alum Block
A fine Friday shave, and the last use of the VC2 for now. Next up in rotation is me double edged razors.
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 readingShave of the day 12th June 2024
- Razor: Autostrop VC2
- Blade: Feather FHS-10
- Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
- Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
- Lather: B&M Latha Oceana
- Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
- Additional Care: Alum Block