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    The top four Razors in my Collection

    / 2023-01-29 / 0 Comments

    I’ve received many new shaving products between my last post and the 2022 year-end holidays. I have fallen behind in reviewing my new products, but I am ready to reveal what I have…

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    Your Next Razor: Vintage or New?

    / 2022-11-11 / 0 Comments

    While watching youtube reviews of the Rockwell T2 adjustable razor, I got to thinking about why someone would pay $150 for a new razor rather than purchase a vintage Gillette Fatboy or Slim…

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    Know your Gap?

    / 2022-10-28 / 0 Comments

    Know your blade gap If you shave with a double-edged or single-edged safety razor, you may know about blade gaps and their relationship to how aggressively a razor shaves. But most of you…

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    Adjustable Razors

    / 2022-10-26 / 0 Comments

    I said I made a mistake when I bought a double-edged safety razor this year. I hadn’t used a DE-razor since the 1970s when I used my grandfather’s Gillette. I know now I…

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    The Wrong Razor

    / 2022-10-24 / 0 Comments

    I started with the wrong razor—So will you. I haven’t been shaving with a double-edged (DE) razor for all that long yet, but I’ve already learned something important. I made a mistake when…

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    First Shave with the VB Chieftan JR

    / 2022-10-19 / 0 Comments

    I recently purchased The Vikings Blade Chieftain JR. Among the reasons I decided to purchase the Chieftain JR were its turn-to-open (TTO) butterfly head, which makes changing blades easier, a handle longer than…

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    Merkur DE vs Twig SE

    / 2022-10-17 / 0 Comments

    I have begun shaving with a double-edged safety razor again after fifty years of single-edge and cartridge razors. I chose a Merkur 34C as my first new DE-razor because it is moderately priced…

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    Should the cost of blades dictate how you shave?

    / 2022-10-14 / 0 Comments

    The cost of multi-blade cartridges can seem outrageously high when you run out of blades and try to purchase refills. This is in part because you don’t buy refills that often. If you…

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    Is your razor out to get you?

    / 2022-10-10 / 0 Comments

    Today I received a marketing email from a maker of single-edged razors. The email argued that cartridges are full of germs, and by implication, their single-edged injector razors and blades are not. The…

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    Single-Edged Razors

    / 2022-10-07 / 0 Comments

    The history of single-edged (SE) razors, such as the Schick injector razor, dates back to the early Twentieth Century (1935). Double-Edged (DE) razors and blades, as we know them, were invented at the…

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Do you play guitar? Or maybe another instrument. Like blues, jazz, roots, and other types of music. If so, visit my other blog site, danlovesguitars.com. Recent posts from danlovesguitars.com are listed below:

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