tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651267620417155162025-06-23T16:14:31.131+02:00That perfect moment caught between lather and blade;the little breathing space where it's you, your razor and perfectionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665126762041715516.post-71066270197088087102020-03-28T21:38:00.003+01:002020-03-28T21:38:48.641+01:00

I've changed hosts for my blog - if you see this post the redirects must be broken :/ The new URL is at http://wegianwetshaving.com/ Thank you for your understanding!

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Razor: Merkur (?) NOS Bakelite Slant Blade: Feather Hi-Stainless Brush: Vie-Long #12705B Pre-Shave: The Lavish Gentleman Natural Strength Oil Cleanser Lather: Cold River Soap Works' Barbere Sapone Aftershave: BullDog Sensitive Aftershave Balm Additional Care: Alum Block, Gentlemen of Sweden Original Beard Oil, & Pereira Shavery Boomerang Beard Comb

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I've been keeping my blog on blogger since 2012, an amazing eight years and roughly 130K unique visitors. Since blogger isn't quite doing what I want it to do, and I wish for more control over both content and back end, I'm switching to WordPress hosted on my own domain. In a few day the move should be finished and redirects set up to take you seamlessly from the old address to the new. Old URL:

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Upside; I'm ordered to spend time with the family. Downside: Normal routines shot to hell. Result: Stubble!

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A seemingly bright idea that I stumbled over as I was clicking through the Mechanix Illustrated archives; the Rally Dry Shaver was a lawn mower for your five o'clock shadow. It folded up to sit in your pocket, and worked by simply running it over your face. According to the advertisements, the Rally was the easiest, most painless, easiest to use shaver ever invented. Reality was probably less

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Because corona - that's why! Seriously; I'm currently been told not to show up at work (to keep a reserve of non-infected personnel) and my morning routine has gone haywire....

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One of my treasured vintage razors currently in my rotation is my Micromatic Clog-Pruf, which was a variation of the Open Comb Micromatic that dates back to 1930. And here I have stumbled over what very much looks to be the patent for the Micromatic, based on inventor, assignee and how the patented razor looks and works. In late summer of 1929, Mr Godfrey Dalkowitz filed - on behalf of the

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My book - "70 razor and shaving patents" - is now finally available for both Kindle and paperback! Order the paperback at http://getbook.at/70Razor_Shavingpatents Order the Kindle edition at http://getbook.at/70razor_shavingpatents A somewhat serious, somewhat humourus meandering rump through patents from the last century and a half, the book explores some of the roads not taken

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Razor: Yaqi Mini,  red & black Blade: Lord Classic Brush: Omega #50014 Travel Lather: BEA Shavestick Aftershave: Krampert's Finest Bay Rum Additional Care: BullDog Original Beard Oil

Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665126762041715516.post-73543974426701256292020-03-12T05:03:00.000+01:002020-03-12T05:03:08.441+01:00

The key to making a profit is - broadly speaking - to spend as little as possible on manufacture, while selling for as much as the market will pay. Thus the race for an inexpensive safety razor was on quite early, as can be seen in this patent, filed by Percy R Greist and Emanuel J Boyler in 1913, on behalf of the Greist Manufacturing Company. As the inventors stated in the patent text, the

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Razor: Yaqi Mini,  red & black Blade: Lord Classic Brush: Omega #50014 Travel Lather: BEA Shavestick Aftershave: Krampert's Finest Bay Rum Additional Care: BullDog Original Beard Oil Order the paperback of my book at at http://getbook.at/70Razor_Shavingpatents Preorder the Kindle edition at http://getbook.at/70razor_shavingpatents

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I might have mentioned a few times - I'm excited, after all - that I've written a book on razor and shaving related patents... the Kindle edition is dropping on the 15th of March (you can preorder it now) and the paperback is now available too - so if you order it now, you'll get it as early as the electronic version! Order the paperback at http://getbook.at/70Razor_Shavingpatents

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Ralph E Thompson was - as we've already seen - a rather prolific inventor of safety razors and associated gear, and he seems to have been one of the central characters in Gillette's search for an improved, adjustable razor in the early 1930's. As the preamble for the patent puts it: This invention relates to safety razors, and more particularly to means for so adjusting  the razor and

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Razor: Yaqi Mini,  red & black Blade: Lord Classic Brush: Omega #50014 Travel Lather: BEA Shavestick Aftershave: Krampert's Finest Bay Rum Additional Care: BullDog Original Beard Oil Remember that the Kindle Edition of my book 70 razor and shaving patents is available for preorder

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Razor: Yaqi Mini,  red & black Blade: Wilkinson Sword Brush: Omega #50014 Travel Lather: BEA Shavestick Aftershave: Krampert's Finest Bay Rum Additional Care: BullDog Original Beard Oil PS: The Kindle edition of my book 70 razor and shaving patents is available for preorder at getbook.at/70razor_shavingpatents

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Today is a big day for me; today is the day that the kindle edition of my book 70 razor and shaving patents became available for preorder! You can preorder it at http://getbook.at/70razor_shavingpatents - feel free to share to link to anyone interested. The official release date is March 15th 2020, and it will also be available in paperback.

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If your freshly invented razor relies on replaceable blades, you better come up with a way to pack the blades. And that goes double if your blades isn't perfectly flat, such as the blades for the GEM and EverReady razors. Enter Joseph Kaufman - of the American Safety Razor Corp - and the patent he filed in January 1907 for how to package a single edge razor blade with a spine. In hindsight the

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Razor: Phillips Philite Blade: Astra Green Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger Lather: Mike's Natural Soaps Peppermint & Rosemary Aftershave: Proraso Liquid Cream After Shave Additional Care: Alum Block, & Gentlemen of Sweden Original Beard Oil

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On Kindle and in paperback - preorders will be available soon! Showcasing a selection of razor and shaving related patents – some of them important in the development of the modern safety razor, others are interesting, inessential, or plain odd – "70 razor and shaving patents" explores some of the roads not taken to get to the daily bathroom routine of making faces hairless we know and enjoy.

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We might not think about it today, but those of us who uses vintage razors dating to before the mid 1930's are actually using them with a blade they were not designed for - but the blade we're using was designed to be compatible with them. And while the blade shown in this advertisement that ran in the June 1930 edition of Scientific American isn't identical to the blade we know and love, it's

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Razor: Phillips Philite Blade: Astra Green Brush: Vie-Long #14033 Lather: Mike's Natural Soaps Orange, Cedarwood & Black Pepper Aftershave: Body Shop Macau Root Energetic Face Protection Additional Care: Alum Block, & WSP Matterhorn Beard Oil

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Razor: GEM 1912 Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless Brush: Vie-Long #13051M Lather: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh Aftershave: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh Additional Care: Alum Block, & Gentlemen of Sweden Original Beard Oil

Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665126762041715516.post-80706995888644901242020-02-27T12:55:00.000+01:002020-02-27T12:55:47.025+01:00

When I asked a few months back on my favourite shave forum if I should "comitt" a book, the responce was positive... but there was also suggestions for not just making an annotated and commented version of the book I had in mind, but also to publish a collection of my posts discussing and snarking on old patents - solutions in search of a problems, blind roads on the road to the modern shave

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You can keep the can of goo, but I wouldn't mind paying just shy of a dollar for a 1953 GEM with ten blades. Adjusted for inflation, 98 cents would equal a little under ten dollars today. Not a bad deal all told - it's about what you would have to pay for a modern multi-blade cartridge handle with a couple of cartridges today. Ten GEM blades should last longer than two modern carts though...

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Razor: GEM 1912 Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless Brush: Omega #10048 Pre-Shave: The Lavish Gentleman Natural Strength Oil Cleanser Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara Additional Care: Alum Block, & Gentlemen of Sweden Original Beard Oil

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