Happy birthday!Uld
I just couldn't get on with the FB. Got 2 slims, one a birthdate H3. They aren't aesthetically perfect, but in my humble, best everyday shavers. My razor was 58 today.... So was I
Uld
I just couldn't get on with the FB. Got 2 slims, one a birthdate H3. They aren't aesthetically perfect, but in my humble, best everyday shavers. My razor was 58 today.... So was I
Grown men with more money than brains who have turned shaving into a perverted fetish!! If they ever have a convention I swear they will all strip down, smear lather on one another and shave away like drunken base Romans!!
And the old Slim will be rolled out pre-dinner drinks, dinner, post-dinner libations in the sun. Life is grand, enjoy it chaps. Blink of an eye.Happy birthday!
Thank you brother. Iife is too short to get angry about trivial matters. Especially razors lol.Happy Birthday to you and your razor. I hope you bought it a birthday card and will take it out for a meal tonight.
Yep, straights were the old way, wedge blades and safety razors are the modern take on shaving. Crappy razors started in the early '60's, with black handled this, and plastic that, and zamak as the final nail in the coffin.Darwin?
(For me, modern starts around 1880)
That's not a rabbit hole, that's a Pit latrine,... go vintage bubba!I must admit, the Leaf razor intrigues me. The rabbit hole beckons
Uld
I just couldn't get on with the FB. Got 2 slims, one a birthdate H3. They aren't aesthetically perfect, but in my humble, best everyday shavers. My razor was 58 today.... So was I
I have 4 vintage, 1 modern, to a vintage design. Leaf is very..... Mmmm!That's not a rabbit hole, that's a Pit latrine,... go vintage bubba!
Yep, straights were the old way, wedge blades and safety razors are the modern take on shaving. Crappy razors started in the early '60's, with black handled this, and plastic that, and zamak as the final nail in the coffin.
The "Modern Age" of safety razors, at least IMHO, begins in 1963 when Gillette started using zamak for the Tech. I think that is a good reference point.
Buy cheap, buy twice. That's what I do with vintage razors.I suppose its like anything you buy - do you ascribe to the philosophy of "Buy cheap, buy twice" and so pay a good amount of money for a quality item that will last a lifetime and have a resale or inheritance value ?
Nice to hear about some vintage razors other than the Gillette Tech. Are there any from that list you'd recommend to someone new to vintage?Buy cheap, buy twice. That's what I do with vintage razors.
I have two Kampfe Stars, three 1912s, two Micromatics and two Eversharp Fashion razors.
All under twenty quid, some under a tenner.
All will last a lifetime (and I have spares if they shouldn't), not sure about resale or inheritance value though.