Razor: Gillette 1958 TV Special
Blade: Feather Hi-Stainless
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Lather: Palmolive Sensitive w/ aloe vera
Aftershave: Nivea Cooling After Shave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave of the day 14th September
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Shave of the day 11th September
Razor: Parker 22R
Blade: Feather Hi-Stainless
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Aftershave: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Additional Care:Alum Block
King Oscillator advertisement
Think that weird and wonderful razors needing special blades were a thing of the early days of safety razors? Would this advertisement for a King Oscillator from 1946 change your mind?
I found this advertisement as I was writing a different and longer blog post about the King Oscillator and the Rotary King razors… so consider this a teaser for next week.
Shave of the day 9th September
Razor: Parker 22R
Blade: Feather Hi-Stainless
Brush: Vie Long “American style” 50/50
Lather: Dalane d’men Energenic
Aftershave: BullDog Original Aftershave Balm
Janos Oscar Plesch’s double double edged blade
Some inventions are solutions in search of problems. The double double edged blade is a prime example, double so in J O Plesch’s itteration of the idea. Not just a double double edged blade, but attempting to be a slant at the same time. And likely prone to blade chatter. However, as the patent explains, his intentions were good:
Continue readingShave of the day 7th September
Razor: Parker 22R
Blade: Feather Hi-Stainless
Brush: Omega #10048
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Proraso Liquid Cream After Shave
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave of the day 4th September
Razor: Gillette Single Ring
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Brush Experimental Alpha
Lather: Williams Mug shaving soap
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Mr Dunn’s Single Edge Razor for Double Edge Blades
Recently razors.click tweeted about a razor patent that I’ve never seen before and it has some really intriguing features. It was filed in 1908, and the patent granted in 1912. It’s a patent by Clifford E Dunn, whom we have meet before.
One of described forms is a single edge razor using a double edge blade – not a unique idea by itself, but this is one of the earliest ones I know of. That design is set up to use Gillette’s three hole blade1 – thus avoiding having to reintroduce yet another blade on the market. Other forms can use a single edged blade – the early Gem blade might work, or a Christy style blade.
On to the patent, which described – according to the text – “certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Razors”. To quote:
Continue readingShave of the day 2nd September
Razor: Gillette Single Ring
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Aftershave: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Additional Care: Alum Block
Christy’s new wrinkle free razor
I’ve mentioned the Christy razor in the past, as well as other razors that built on the same idea or used Christy blades. As mentioned, the blades at least were for sale until the early thirties. What I found today shows that razors themselves were offered until at least 1927, competing for the low end of the market.
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