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The top four Razors in my Collection
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
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…
