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Looking through the posts on the Sticky (vintage Wilkinson DE razor from the late '60s) I chanced upon the observation that the shave is not that great according to one member. This is despite the high prices being paid currently for this rarity. This interested me as in fact I used to have a Sticky. Way back (must have been late '60s or early '70s I guess) I saw the razor featured in one of the weekend colour magazines of the time (?Sunday Times) as a Design award winner and I decided I must have one. Up till then I must have had a Tech as my first razor.
I continued with the Sticky until the first cartridge razor came along..was it the Gillette Contour, I've forgotten? Anyway I changed to cartridges at this point and I do recall thinking that the Sticky was not giving me as good a shave so it was cartridges from then on until the realisation several years ago that the multiblade nonsense was getting out of hand and the DE scene actually still existed with forums galore on the whole subject of wet shaving and vintage Gillettes.
And so I ponder that if I had not had such a relatively bad shave from the Sticky I might have stayed with the Tech and held out against the new technology. I suspect I would have been drawn into the craze for multiblades.
On entering the online shaving fraternity it didn't take me long to realise that the Sticky was commanding high prices on the auction sites. But where had it gone? I looked high and low but systematic searches and rigorous interrogation of the wife brought me no luck in unearthing the valuable Sticky which must have been consigned to the waste bin. I may even have done the deed myself! :shock:
That's my Sticky story
I continued with the Sticky until the first cartridge razor came along..was it the Gillette Contour, I've forgotten? Anyway I changed to cartridges at this point and I do recall thinking that the Sticky was not giving me as good a shave so it was cartridges from then on until the realisation several years ago that the multiblade nonsense was getting out of hand and the DE scene actually still existed with forums galore on the whole subject of wet shaving and vintage Gillettes.
And so I ponder that if I had not had such a relatively bad shave from the Sticky I might have stayed with the Tech and held out against the new technology. I suspect I would have been drawn into the craze for multiblades.
On entering the online shaving fraternity it didn't take me long to realise that the Sticky was commanding high prices on the auction sites. But where had it gone? I looked high and low but systematic searches and rigorous interrogation of the wife brought me no luck in unearthing the valuable Sticky which must have been consigned to the waste bin. I may even have done the deed myself! :shock:
That's my Sticky story