In 1926 Rudolph C G Staats-Oels filed a patent for an improvement in safety razors. I’m not sure how much of an improvement it was. It was certainly novel, by the standards of the day. For starters, it was a slant. Or as the patent put it, it had a head:
Continue reading…wherein the transverse curvature of the blade will be gradually increased from one end toward the other thereof.
From US patent 1,633,139
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp”
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block & Barbossa Organic Sandalwood Beard Oil
Razor: Asylum Shave Works Evolution
Blade: Perma-sharp Super Stainless
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Lather: Cold River Soap Works Olfactory Hue
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Still poking around on digitalmuseum.no1 I found a much less workmanlike wedge razor than the previous one that I shared with you. Named the Bismarck razor, after the German statesman, the razor is mentioned in Waits’ Compendium.
Continue readingRazor: Asylum Shave Works Evolution
Blade: Perma-sharp Super Stainless
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Lather: CRSW Glide Morning Ghost
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block & Barbossa Organic Sandalwood Beard Oil
While I’m personally a big fan of vintage razors in all forms, new manufacture traditional safety razors are being released frequently. One of the latest I’ve heard about is the Asylum Rx Gen II, soon to be released by Phil from BullGoose Shaving. And he recently showed it of on YouTube.
Continue readingRazor: Asylum Shave Works Evolution
Blade: Perma-sharp Super Stainless
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
Lather: Cold River Soap Works’ Barbere Sapone
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Razor: Mergress “Bling”
Blade: Perma-sharp Super Stainless
Brush: Omega #10048
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Proraso Wood and Spice
Additional Care: Alum Block
Museums have started making their collections available online. And as I was browsing digitalmuseum.no – a common digital platform for a lot of Norwegian museums – I ran across a nice and simple wedge razor. Always a sucker for shaving oddities, I poked around a bit more.
Continue readingRazor: Mergress “Bling”
Blade: Perma-sharp Super Stainless
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Pereira Sample
Aftershave: Proraso Liquid Cream After Shave
Additional Care: Alum Block & Barbossa Organic Sandalwood Beard Oil