Razor: GEM Heavy Flat Top
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
Lather: Brutalt Bra TSN LE / Norwegian Wood
Aftershave: Nivea Cooling After Shave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block & Gentlemen of Sweden Original Beard Oil
Razor: GEM Heavy Flat Top
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Vie Long “American style” 50/50
Lather: Williams Mug shaving soap
Aftershave: BullDog Original Aftershave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block
In order to celebrate a couple of things I’m running a countdown deal on the Kindle version of my book “70 razor and shaving patents“!
This is a very unique and interesting book. I have always enjoyed early 20th century patents. This book is full of them – 200 pages worth – all related to traditional wet shaving.
Review from Amazon
What I appreciate the most is the author’s commentary. He points out the most interesting aspects of the patent in a couple of short paragraphs. This isn’t always obvious from the patent drawing itself, so the author has done the work of reading through the patent and describing the vision and features of the invention.
The book is easy to flip through with interesting pictures and easy-to-digest commentary.
Since this is a count down deal, the sooner you get your copy, the more you save!
From July 4 @ 1200AM PDT / 0700 UTC; 78% off!
From July 4th @ 1200PM PDT / 1900 UTC; 56% off!
From July 5 @ 1200AM PDT / 0700 UTC; 34% off!
From July 5th @ 1200PM PDT / 1900 UTC; 12% off!
Sale ends on July 6th @ 1200AM PDT / 0700 UTC.
Prices for the paperback have also been lowered, although not as much as for the electronic version since I have to take the cost of printing into consideration.
Get it at getbook.at/70Razor_Shavingpatents !
Alternate link: getbook.at/70razor_shavingpatents
Razor: GEM Heavy Flat Top
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Omega #10048
Lather: Williams Mug shaving soap
Aftershave: BullDog Sensitive Aftershave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block & Gentlemen of Sweden Original Beard Oil
ShaveFan is a a shaving-focused link aggregation and discussion web site. In other words a place where interesting links from all over the shaving world ends up, so you don’t have to visit several blogs, forums and sosial media daily. In a way it’s like fark.com,1 but with more focus and less snark. ShaveFan uses tags to allow for easy filtering and searching.
It’s possible to use it just as a visitor, but to gain the full benefit you ought to sign up. As a full member you can submit and vote on links. You also need to be a member if you want to comment on any links listed. For the time being at least you have to have an invite, more on that later.
I’ve been a member on ShaveFan for a while now, and I find it useful both for finding out what is going on in the world of shavers, as well as – being honest here – promoting some of the more interesting things I write about on my blog. With more members I can see ShaveFan becoming an even more useful addition to the shave world.
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Razor: GEM Heavy Flat Top
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Lather: Williams Mug shaving soap
Aftershave: BullDog Sensitive Aftershave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block & BullDog Original Beard Balm
There seems to have been a drive – since Gillette first started to sell safety razors – to simplify production and increase the profit margin. I’m convinced that not all ideas got patented, but those which did can make for some fascinating reading.
Continue readingRazor: Schick “Lady Eversharp”
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Lather: Williams Mug shaving soap
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block & Gentlemen of Sweden Original Beard Oil
The juxtaposition of an inexpensive soap with my most fancy brush is interesting to say they least…
Razor: Schick “Lady Eversharp”
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Vie Long “American style” 50/50
Lather: Williams Mug shaving soap
Aftershave: BullDog Original Aftershave Balm
Additional Care: Alum Block
As the sharp eyed reader might have spotted, the last couple of my SOTDs have featured the Williams Mug Soap, which I got as part of a care package from a friend and gentleman from my favourite shave forum.
In addition to the soap – which he offered to ship since I haven’t had the opportunity to try it previously – he put a lot of other welcome items in the box as well.
A lovely bevy of samples – allegedly taking up space in his drawers, but a windfall for me.
Add to the soap and the samples a nice selection of blades; Med Preps, Lab Blues, Israeli Personnas and Crystals. From what he tells me the Med Preps and Lab Blues might be similar, so I’ll be sure to do some compare and contrast between the two – perhaps load up my Gillette Old from the my Khaki Kit with one and my Gillette Single Ring with the other and use them on opposite sides of my face?
And in addition to all that – which was already beyond what I was expecting – my friend found it in his heart to add a GEM G-bar, also known as the Heavy Flat Top. I do enjoy GEM and other vintage Single Edge Razors, and I am beyond excited to add the G-Bar to my rotation.
So a big thank you and shout out to Charlie – both for his friendship and for the box filled with joy!