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Mulling over using my Lord Tech clone to have a run through the remainder of my Lord blades (thinking that many have already been tried out with my benchmark Tech, the 1980s [Blank] in the list below), I thought the whole razor felt ... well, kinda quite well made when compared to that late Tech and certainly better than the Sterling that I got with some of the new Gillette Super Blue blades.
I started weighing them out ...
Make of it what you will, but down the later Techs you'll see that the baseplate lightened by the '70s and then I have a couple of anomalies where the baseplate appears to return to 1960s weight. The 1940s British FB versus the American pre/post-War are interesting results.
I think when I get to the Lords, I'll use the Lord cap from that razor and pop it onto the baseplate from my benchmark 1980s Gillette Tech. It's a guess where it is made, though. I think I recall Russia on the packaging which makes sense as the vendor I bought mine from also has all manner of Rapira Sterling clones.
I started weighing them out ...
Model | Manufacture | Cap (g) | Baseplate (g) |
1930s pre-War (NDC) | American | 16 Red Brass | 11 |
1930s pre-War (NDC) | American | 14 Yelllow Brass | 11 |
1940s post-War (W1) | American | 11 | 11 |
1940s FB #44 | British | 12 | 13 |
1940s FB Brass | British | 13 | 12 |
1950s FB Brass | British | 13 | 12 |
1940s Hybrid | British | 14 | 18 |
1950s | British | 14 | 11 |
1950s (B3) | American | 15 | 11 |
1950s (Z4) Gold | American | 12 | 11 |
1950s Aluminium | British | 14 | 3 |
1960s (K4) Gillette | American | 10 | 10 |
1960s (L2) Gillette Taveller | American | 10 | 10 |
1970s (P2) Gillette | British | 10 | 10 |
1970s (T2) Gillette Ball | British | 10 | 8 |
1970s (U3) Gillette Ball Traveller | British | 10 | 8 |
1970s Double Edge/G1000 | British | 10 | 8 |
1970s French (Diamond Stamped) | British | 10 | 10 |
1970s French (Diamond Stamped O3) Open Comb | British? | 10 | 10 |
1970s Rotbart (Embossed) | British? | 11 | 10 |
1980s [Blank] | British | 11 | 10 |
Lord | Russia? | 11 | 7 |
Sterling | China? | 8 | 2 |
Make of it what you will, but down the later Techs you'll see that the baseplate lightened by the '70s and then I have a couple of anomalies where the baseplate appears to return to 1960s weight. The 1940s British FB versus the American pre/post-War are interesting results.
I think when I get to the Lords, I'll use the Lord cap from that razor and pop it onto the baseplate from my benchmark 1980s Gillette Tech. It's a guess where it is made, though. I think I recall Russia on the packaging which makes sense as the vendor I bought mine from also has all manner of Rapira Sterling clones.
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