Razor: GEM Micromatic Clug Pruf
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Omega #10048
Lather: Palmolive Sensitive w/ aloe vera
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave of the day 13th August 2021
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Aero Shaving Cream
Keeps on softening, and softening, and softening…
Continue readingShave of the day 11th August 2011
Razor: GEM Micromatic Clug Pruf
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Lather: Dr Selby Lavender
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A quite Normal razor
A completely Normal razor in fact. For those of you who are not from around here; Normal is a retail chain which sells absolutely normal products at abnormal prices. They manage by buying excess stock from other retailers and wholesalers, so it varies a bit what they have and don’t have in stock. So while I was there to pick up something else, I decided to have a look at what they had in the way of shaving accoutrements. After all, I picked up some Proraso from the store not that long ago. And guess what I found?
Continue readingShave of the day 9th August 2021
Razor: GEM Micromatic Clug Pruf
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Lather: Pereira Sample
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave of the day 6th August 2021
Razor: GEM Heavy Flat Top
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Brush Experimental Alpha
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
The most adaptable of all razors
Note the angle stroke.
An advertisement from the November 26, 1910 issue of The Saturday Evening Post (Palm Coast, Florida, USA), showing the “Gillette Slide”.
Continue readingShave of the day 4th August 2021
Razor: GEM Heavy Flat Top
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Lather: Williams Mug shaving soap
Aftershave: Body Shop Macau Root Energetic Face Protection
Additional Care: Alum Block
Raymond H Wilhelm and the bright idea
Raymond H Wilhelm wasn’t the first nor the last man who got a bright idea while shaving. He wasn’t even the first or last to get the idea to put something bright on his razor. Before I’ve mentioned patents from Lester E Norquist1 and F Pollifrone,2 as well as an aftermarket brightness enhancer.
The idea seems bright enough; the place you’ll need the most light where shaving is just where your hand and razor will shade for the light. The solution – the light bulb idea, if you will – is to place the light in or on the razor. And that is what Raymond H Wilhelm did in his patent application one hundred years ago.
Continue readingShave of the day 2nd August 2021
Razor: GEM Heavy Flat Top
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Lather: CRSW Glide Morning Ghost
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
