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God Jul, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Frohe Weihnachten, and so on and so forth
Norwegians, being a sensible people, have the big Yuletime celebration on Christmas Eve. So before I eat myself into a food coma and opens presents with my family, allow me to wish you all the very best for the midwinter holiday – or midsummer, for those south of the equator – with this Australian 1959 Gillette Christmas commercial:
Continue readingShave of the afternoon 24th December 2021
Razor: Tatara Masamune
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Colonia
Aftershave: Proraso Wood and Spice
Additional Care: Alum Block & Oak SOS Beard Oil
Advent 2021 – twenty-third surprise
Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the twenty-third bag!
Continue readingScimitar razor for wedge and non-wedge blades
The turn of the last century was an paradigm shift when it came to shaving technology. Wedge blades – which had been the cutting edge1 in the late 19th century – was replaced with the bleeding edge2 of easily manufactured and replaced thin steel blade. The Scimitar razor straddled the line, in that it could use both .
Continue readingAdvent 2021 – twenty-second surprise
Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the twenty-second bag!
Continue readingShave of the day 22nd December 2021
Razor: Tatara Masamune
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Epsilon for Men Scottish Spirit
Additional Care: Alum Block, & Oak SOS Beard Oil
Advent 2021 – twenty-first surprise
Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the twenty-first bag!
Continue readingSelf Sharp Adjustable Safety Razor
So I was poking around over at Wikimedia Commons – a great source for free images – today, and once again I found a picture of a razor I’ve never seen or heard about before.
The razor is identified as the Self Sharp Adjustable DE Safety Razor, by the Self Sharp Razor Co., Turlock, California.
Images by Joe Haupt, released under CC BY-SA 2.0
Mechanically, the razor is simple. Adjust the lever on the underside to expose more or less blade on one side of the razor – and at the same time less or more on the other. It looks to take standard Gillette style blades.
Waits’ compendium turns up a blank. Google Image Search is not particularly helpful. According to Wikimedia, patent was applied for… but a cursory search at Google Patents reveals nothing.
So if anyone know anything about the Self Sharp Adjustable razor from Turloc, California… drop me a line.
Advent 2021 – twentieth surprise
Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the twentieth bag!
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