Gillette New Clean Up

[chriszacharek]

Afternoon,

This morning I received a cased Gillette New in unrestored condition from Erwin.
Very pleased with it. I was after this model as it has the flat base on the head, so I could pair it with a bulldog handle. All it needed was a clean so I got out the ultrasonic cleaner, expanding foam, silvo polish and silver cleaning cloth...

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This is it in the case

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And taken apart

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After a few minutes in the ultrasonic cleaner, rinse, soak in the expanding foam, rinse, few more minutes in the ultrasonic, silvo polish, ultrasonic then buff up with the silver polishing cloth...

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The head wasn't too bad anyway to be fair but I'm particularly pleased with how well the handle came up...

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Though the reason I wanted this was to pair it with a bulldog handle as I already have a gold coloured New which is my favourite DE, but the bulldog wouldn't fit properly due to the ridges on the bottom of the head. That and it would look a bit odd in gold. Here it is with the bulldog.

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Very happy...

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And back in the box...

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Will try it out later. Many thanks to Erwin for sorting me out with this one.

Chris

 

[Roy_Drage]

Very nice, looks good with the Bulldog handle.

 

[pjgh]

Very tidy indeed! I must get one of those ultrasonic cleaners - I'm doing it the hard way

 

[MachM]

Looks good, it's cleaned up well. I use mine with a Bulldog handle too, great combination.