- 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
Another fine shave to start a sunny week
Another fine Friday shave on a sunny day.
A minty fresh midweek shave.
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.
A nice Monday shave as I start my vacation.
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 readingA 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.