Injector & SE Party !!!

Billy

A lifetime of learning for sure. It is a good challenge getting these sharp. I am going to try doing the same to one of my SE stropping blades next.

i find doing this can be a real zen type of thing. It is very similar to polishing telescope mirrors.

Tom

 

Go on to YouTube & look at "Lynn Abrams from the Straight Razor Place"..Stick to One person you like & follow him..He uses Straights on stones but its the same principle..I happen to like his open mind to various methods..He is very light hearted clear & helpful in my Books anyway..

Billy..

 

An Example..

Billy..

 

Write up here.

Photo inspired by @Boojum1 .

 

Well..Just watch when working with them after working with Hollow Grounds as its so easy to destroy the edges on them especially with Chromium Oxide..I was talking to someone about this yesterday..If you Do have to use Chromium Oxide to bring back an edge on those Stropping blades Go onto the 2 Micron Red Paste & if you feel the need polish them on 1 Micron Black Paste or Crayon..Those edges are fragile..Less is More...I Normally stick to sets of 5 to 8 with those blades and check them.. A very Light Feather like touch is the Key to these blades..

Billy..

 

4/16/16
Schick Canadian E3 w/Black handle / Schick Dutch (NOS) (2)
Barrister and Mann Leviathan
Omega 10005
Geo. F. Trumper Sandalwood Skin Cream
Aqua Velva Musk

The shave this morning might be the best shave since December 8th, 2013. So smooth a shave and closest I have received. My neck was the biggest surprise as there was no drag when going across the grain.

 

@spidey9 posted this helpful bit of information back on post #5479: http://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/injector-se-party.23113/page-274#post-974477

 

Gracias amigo!

 

Thanks for the info this will be helpful for honing any type of blade

 

Sometimes it just works.....

 

I use light pressure when setting the bevel and lighter pressure on the finer grits.

BTW, as it is commonly used, a "lap" is one stroke on each side of the blade (back and forth once), so "15 laps per side" doesn't make sense.

I do up to several hundred laps when setting the bevel - whatever it takes, depending on the condition of the blade. Then about 60 laps on each grit down to .3 micron.

That's probably overkill.

With the .3 micron film I put a sheet of copy paper between the film and the base and use lather instead of water.

--Bob

 

That's a very phallic cactus you have there!

 

My wife chose it. Seriously she knows a thing or two about dealing with pr@€$.

 

Type D planned for Sunday.

 

I've always been a big admirer of your Rapide Collection...You have some beautiful and unusual pieces....aswell as some very early examples of the Species....Count me as a fan!

 

Beautiful Kit there Hodge...That Brush is stunning aswell, what is it?..

Whats that Dapper Dan like....When I was a kid, there was a Used Car Lot near my house that had a sign out front that said, "Mad Man, Dapper Dan: I'd Give Them Away, But My Wife Won't Let Me!" Ha,ha...appears my man also dabbled in After Shave...

 

The GEM blades are good....some like Stainless....maybe most like stainless and there are some carbon elitists....Both styles have their fans, although I think the low maintenance and many more shaves per blade has caused the Stainless GEMs to have a larger fan-base....But both are really Great blades...some think the Stainless smooth out after the second shave and reach their potential and stay there for maybe 5 to 10 more shaves, depending on how many passes and how tough and thick your whiskers are....

I believe if the try @Billyfergie 's "FergieBilly Shims" with the modern GEM blades, you will be quite happy....Most like 1/2 shim with a 1912....

 

Thanks! I think that the Rapides are an under-appreciated bit of SE razor history.

I would not have believed this possible, but the Rapide is slowly replacing the C. V. Heljestrand as my favorite type of wedge blade razor.

Of course, it has been a while since I've used a Helje.



C. V. Heljestrand (left) and Ernst Scharff Rapide.

--Bob

 

Man I went back to mid Nov. 1913 (sorry, correction, 2013...) and found my maiden voyage with the ER 1924....Here tis....

[Well I just got my first shave with an Ever Ready 1924, so I felt like I had to check-in...As a few of you know around here, I've been a big fan of JB de Mesquita and now I've finally gotten to try the design he worked on for 20 years...

It absolutely knocked me out...I hadn't shave for 3 days... I took a steaming hot shower...the Arko was its usual lather bomb...I put a new blade in the '24 and was surprised how easy it was to load. Must be a case of YMMV, but it was crazy easy and that backward flip top is flat cool. Then my first stroke was from my left sideburn down to past my jaw line. Then I inspected the path I had just made in the lather and it was pure BBS...The rest of the shave was equally amazing. Also I didn't realize til the shave was over that; like SD; I never notice it retaining water...Hmm, maybe it's just the way I rinse my razors...

As Marc said, this razor lets you feel the blades edge at all times. I love that...It makes it so easy the get areas like around the nose...Talk about 'Feed Back' feeling that blade edge is the ultimate feed-back....And then there is also the fact that this is the loudest razor ever...scores another 'I love that'...

I really wasn't expecting to be so completely knocked out by this rascal, but it's performance was overwhelming...This one also matches or exceeds my Str8s and Shavettes for closeness...And to be displaying so much whisker knock down prowess, she also left my skin without a hint of burn, even on my throat; a confirmed razor burn problem area...I'm afraid I couldn't find anything not to love about this razor.....If I did have to drum up something, it could only be that she's such a young razor...There's something about a 100 year old razor thats super appealing to me, and this ones like, made after WWI...Shame.....Ahhh, but JB de Mesquita did do the original design for what would become the ER 1924 in 1909 so maybe that will get the '24 a reprieve on this point... ]

Well there you have it folks...Now you all know how much I love the Little Lather Catcher the ER 1914. But the fact is...I got my Maiden Voyage with my 1914 a few days after this. I was blown away by all the noise and vibrations from the ER1914, but I needed to do a couple of 30 day focuses with it, over that year before I completely fell...Where as the ER 1924, the Shovelheaded Lovely totally captivated me from the first stroke...

There have been several versions, the first was in 1909 for Yankee razors which would become Ever Ready....The head looks just like an ER 1924 but the handle is different....

In 1915 Ever Ready was manufacturing and selling them in England
Newspaper Ad from 1915

And in 1919 they were sold in the US right beside the GEM 1912, and ER 1914.....
In 1924 the ER 1914 was dropped and the ER 1924 became their flagship razor....
So the whole ER 1924 is really the wrong name...But that was when it became their main model and received the most advertisements in the US, so it's alot simpler to just call it that....

Today I dusted my first Shovelheaded Beauty off and used a shimmed GEM Stainless...and I can still say, There is no finer shaver.... This is my Pop's birth year SE, and I would be VERY content to shave with this lovely every day for the rest of my shaving career.......And Julius deMesquita, the first treasurer for ASR designed her in 1909....And I don't think any design since is better....Some other designs I love dearly...But deMesquita was a genius and got it all right on this one.....He teaked her for 10 years...True Greatness was acheived and this one just can't be beat....YMMV!

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