One I haven’t heard about before – despite giving five times the shaves or more – but today virtually all common blades are stainless.
“Pal” stainless steel injector
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Tag Archives: Thoughts while shaving
Reggae Shaving Cream Song
Spottet in a window
While walking downtown, I spottet a small display in the window of one of the hairdressers:
I suspect the DE in the back was never used in a professional setting – still nice to see it.
Barber instructor and toilet manual
Courtesy of archive.org; the Barber Instructor and Toilet Manual. Everything an aspiring barber needs to know – or rather, needed to know in 1900.
A fun and interesting read, well worth looking through.
A few plates:
The Indian Barbershop
The BBC have an interesting article on the Indian barbershop an the place it has in society – I found it well worth a read, and it brought back found memories of the Indians I served with on ‘my’ Team Site in South Sudan.
I have to agree with the Indian boys though; unisex salons have always made me feel out of place. I wish there was a good old fashioned barbershop in my little town, but I’m not even sure if there is one in Norway at all.
Vintage blade banks
Just a few I found while poking around online.
Shaving soap on WIkipedia
Not the best article I’ve seen, but worth a read.
Christmas story shave gear
In addition to weaving a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan, the father in A Christmas Story shaved with Single Edged GEMs by the looks of it.
As for the brush and soap, I don’t know what they are.
“Keep innovating” they said…
…more like fiddling and breaking a well working, near perfect design I say – Keep It Simple Stupid and all that.
The 1904; Considered one of the highlights of early safety razors, originals still usable, still shaving great, spawned an untold number of copies, a myriad of different blades available.
The 1965 Techmatic; Considered one of the worst razors ever, can’t get replacement blades today, only lasting claim to fame is that it went to space.
The 2014 FlexBall; Apparently modern man has lost the ability to move his wrist, single source of (expensive) blades, moving parts will wear out, requires a battery, no significant improvement on other carts.
