Razor: Schick E2 Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Brush Experimental Alpha
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Williams Mug shaving soap
Aftershave: Saponificio Varesino Tundra Artica
Additional Care: Alum Block
A late but nice shave on Little Chrismas Eve.
A few days ago we looked at a guard bar for safety razors. In that post, I mentioned wanting to take a look at a patent for a double edge injector. Guess what we’re doing today? That’s right – we’re looking at the double edge injector!
The patent was filed by Gerald Stahl and Charles A Johnson Jr in 1961, and granted four years later. And it is delightfully detailed and lavishly illustrated. Even the full title is quite a mouthful; “Injector razor having means for flexing a flexible double edge blade as it moves into position and arrangements for operating the same”.
Continue readingRazor: Schick E2
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Aftershave: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Additional Care: Alum Block
A nice and relaxed humpday shave
Traditional shaving isn’t my only interest in this world. I also like wood turning, military history, old computers, and suchlike. So it tickled my interest when a co-worker pointed me towards ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence project for producing text. Since he had had some decent results on subject that interest him, I decided to have a go and see what it would produce from the prompt “A blogpost on traditional shaving, of about 500 words.“.
So without further ado, I present ChatGPT’s take on our hobby:
Continue readingRazor: Schick E2
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Wet Shaving Products Pre-production Sample
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmar
Additional Care: Alum Block
A good shave to start my holiday vacation on. Smooth, slick, and with a razor that is eighty-one years young
Razor: Schick G4
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A fast shave on a freezing Friday.
Or, perhaps more correct, a double double edged cartridge razor. Which sounds both weird and pointless, but stay with me here.
Invented by Sergio Somonetti, and assigned to Warner Lambert Co LLC, the double edged cartridge razor strikes me as a typical transitional device. It looked like a traditional safety razor, yet used the recent idea of cartridges. And since Sergio suggested using two blades in each cartridge, it became a double double edged cartridge razor.1
Continue readingRazor: Schick G4
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Omega #10048
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A wee Wednesday shave getting me over the hump. Still cold and snowing.
A guard bar for a safety razor don’t sound like something you could file a patent for in 1971. After all, all safety razors – well, almost all – have had a guard since the original Kampfe. You could argue that the concept of a guard was inherent to the idea of a safety razor, from Jean Jacques Perret and until today. So… since Jan Dawidowicz did in fact get a patent for a guard bar for safety razors in 1973, it must have been a special guard bar. Special and non-obvious. And Even in hindsight I would say the later is correct.
Most patents seems to revolve around solving a problem, imaginary or otherwise.1 So let us see what problem Jan was wanting to solve.
Continue readingRazor: Schick G4
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps Orange, Cedarwood & Black Pepper
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A quick shave on a cold Monday morning – winter has come.