Hello All
I am Manish (Man-ish) from Mumbai, India. The other side of the world literally. A banker and technology professional by profession, this is my first post after joining Tost3 a while ago, after the earlier forum was made read-only.
I m 48, a wet shaving fan and use not only unmentionables but a huge SE fan Gem, Injectors or AC style razors, most of my SE knowledge has come from the OSR2 forum and have bought almost every type of Gem, Ever ready
I am also a big Williams fan both Modern and Vintage and enough stock to last me many life times over !
The ER 1924 is currently a favorite with a Gem PTFE blade. Love Tallow triple milled soaps as well as croaps.
Glad to be here !! A big thank you to Fuzzy and all the fine gentlemen here for all the fun and knowledge.
Best Regards and great shaves !
Manish

This one is a veddy nice shaving razor. It is also one of my best looking sets! I looked it up before and I think its from around 1913ish. 

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Got this very nice AutoStrop A2 from twhite today. Happy to add it to my AS collection. I will be using AutoStrops next week. This one will show up Tuesday.

Clubman, Aqua Velva regular and musk, Old Spice, Skin Bracer, Proraso.  I have more, but those are the ones on my bathroom sink.

I really love these razors. The A1 looks better I think. Both shave really well though. 

I love this model and it's plastic case. It makes for a great travel set. I am going to post  shave video with one and a video I did showing off the set.

A toast to my Dad, 3 years today and I miss him every day. He sort of got me back into traditional shaving as I shaved him with his Tech (sorry - unmentionable), boar brush and palmolive stick when he couldn't manage, I thought I'd better up my technique.
He had a wonderful whisky collection (among other tipples) which we enjoyed  and these were passed to me.


Heres to you pops, your nice Aberlour 10yr old.

I love to use my fav MR14 handle with this old ER Shovel Head SE.
Thanks to a friend and his adapter.

FrankenRazor PP1914

https://www.tost3.com/showthread.php?tid...28#pid4428

So this is going to be a test of how many shaves I can get from a GEM blade compared to an unmentionable. So I will be testing this by keeping this as fair as I can. I have appointed Williams mug soap to lubricating duty. And following what the box says I will use Aqua Velva Ice Blue for after shave. I will also be using Nivea Shaving Balm. Brushes will be JR #82 and #365. Since this is the only forum I am a part of the unmentionable shaves will not be posted but pictures will be kept for counting at the end. I planed on shaving every day but I rather just use them for as long as I can without that constrain. So that means I will post my shaves when I do them as I do not shave every day. I would like for all of you to keep in mind a few things that does determine how many shaves you get. First how thick your beard is which in my case is not very thick and I do not shave my goatee are as I will be growing it over the year. If you have thicker beard than me expect to get less shaves I think. Another thing is that I will only be doing two pass shaves with one with the grain and then across the grain. I am only looking for shaves that are good enough for government work.  

Anyways I hope some will join me on this test and maybe even a Williams month and Aqua Velva Ice Blue if you got it. I will do the first shave tomorrow or the day after. By the way for people joining me only GEM 1912 shaves count. Lets use February as 1912 appreciation month. And every month before and after since they are good shaving razors.

Well, now that I'm retired and have more free time my interest in these old tools has been revived. Any chance I can rejoin you misfits in this little corner of the interwebs?

Edited to add some details: Hopefully some of the old timers remember me, but for the newer members a little introduction is in order. I belonged to the original original safety razor forum started by Dave Irving and each new version of TOST. I took a hiatus from the vintage shaving forums because I was stretched too thin with work, other interests and a growing family, up to 9 grandchildren now! Looking forward to getting back in the groove.