The G3 with some VDH an Omega travel boar and Ice Blue. Easy and gives an outstanding shave. Does anyone else have a dedicated travel setup?

   

3-12-2024 will be 4 years we have been here. I just renewed the domain name. Life is good in our little corner of the net.

It's March
Friday's Cold Water Shave

Cold Water Rinse
Musgo Real Shave Soap
Tom's 3D Printed Synthetic Brush
Tom's Fuzzy Catcher
Personna GEM SS PTFE
CWR
Dickinson's Lemongrass Witch Hazel

I am curious as to thoughts on vintage pipes. It does not freak me out to buy and use a pipe that someone smoked before. I clean them good and keep on.  This meerschaum is an example. It was obviously  favorite of someone in the past. It is going to be among my favorites.

   

Always love the shave from these.

   

This was an unexpected photo coming across a WW2 UK military field kit with a Valet Razor. I guess there was no worry about needing blades. I haven’t thought of this razor as a second WW razor before. Do now! 

This photo will likely be cropped a bit as it is settles in here, but this is  from the British Imperial Museum 2nd WW Collection. Guess the model?
   

Does anyone know anything about the injector blades from Parker?

A Rocketman that must be checked out!


RocketmanToo

The Dime razor was an International Safety Razor Co. competitor starting in the early 1900s  (Patent Dec 1907) . As the package indicates, it cost 10c and was therefore a much more affordable competitor to the Kampfe, GEM, ASR and Gillette razors. The proprietary blade was a simple rectangle and the blades were sold as disposable.

      “When blade is dull throw it away”

There are a couple of ways to experience this wonderful little razor:

1. Simply use a Feather Haney SE

2. Modify a standard GEM Ptfe
        shown on Tost by Dave in KY DIME Razor Gem blade mod


I am a fan of the Feather blades and try to always at least have them on hand for Auto Strops.
They fit perfectly into the DIME. 

   
   

The DIME has a very simple wire guard, which as the instructions point out allows for a very comfortable and effective slant/diagonal stroke. The wire guard slides easily at any direction you choose helping significantly to create a slant stroke. It weighs almost nothing (Dave in KY indicates just under 2 ounces) and is a lot of fun to shave with.

   

   

Try a Feather in your DIME. A wonderful shave for a razor well over 100 years old.

          Tribute to a Bygone Shaver

I only recently got to shave with a Wilkinson Empire razor that I had picked up quite a few years ago. I was reading here how twhite had a modern blade work-around for this type of razor - so I wanted to go ahead and finally use this particular one. I enjoy these old shaving articles and when I have purchased razors over the years they are typically disconnected from their past. But this Empire razor I had bought in Saint Boniface Manitoba where I was told that the Obituary newspaper cutout which was in the razor case belonged to the Gentleman who had owned it. It was handed down through his family and had remained unused all these years. 

I first thought I wanted to share this while I was having the shave. It just seemed like the thing to do.

The razor’s last owner was born in 1875 and he died in 1943 - within 10 years of the razor’s manufacture. When he was a boy, this territory was only recently pulled from private hands (The Hudson Bay Company) and made into the Canadian Province of Manitoba in 1870. A lot has happened since. Wilfred Richardson. Thank you for the razor. Thank you for the shave.