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    Four months of shaving: Lessons and Reviews

    / 2023-02-05 / 0 Comments

    I entered a new era in shaving when I decided to return to using a safety razor which is how I started shaving as a teen in the 1960s. It has been four…

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    Shaving Terminology

    / 2022-10-31 / 0 Comments

    Shaving Terms 1-piece razor New blades are inserted into a one-piece razor by turning part of the handle, which opens a pair of butterfly doors on the head. Although the razor has many…

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    Shaving against the grain

    / 2022-10-21 / 0 Comments

    I don’t remember the source, but somewhere, about the time I began shaving in the mid to late 1960s, I read you should always shave “with the grain” of your beard for the…

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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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    My (beginner) shave routine

    / 2022-10-12 / 0 Comments

    I’ve been shaving with a double-edged (DE) safety razor for about two weeks now, after having used a Gillette Mach3 razor for twenty-ish years. It’s not the first time I’ve used single or…

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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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    Double Edge Razors for Beginners

    / 2022-10-05 / 0 Comments

    I haven’t shaved with a double-edged safety razor since college, about 40 years ago. That makes me a beginner. I’ve decided to explore non-cartridge shavers for various reasons, including the fact that I…

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