November 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

High praise, Joseph! Nice photo.

 

That's a gorgeous brush, Randy. You and your Dad did a wonderful job on it. This is a family keepsake, for sure.

 

@BaylorGator has a private air strip and a Rolls Royce shaving brush. It's good to be the Ice Cream Titan.

 

It's a shame he has to park the planes outside. Maybe he'll upgrade to covered parking one day soon?

 

Ain't it the truth, Rick? Ben and Jerry have had their hangar for years. It also keeps the weather off their company Lambo, so they have that going for them too. Let's place @BaylorGator on a six-month probation. If his planes remain outside after mid-2019, we'll be forced to demote him to Junior Ice Cream Titan.

 

Thanks guys.

If I put covered parking out front, Ben and Jerry will just want to park their G6s there and never leave. Those guys can’t take a hint. They never wipe their feet at the door either.

 

You still using all of the same gear?!

 

Wonderful shave and photo Perry. Watching UGA vs Ga Tech now. Iron Bowl this afternoon with UK vs Louisville tonight. We have a full day of football ahead.

 

Great shave and photo John. The Lost Provence scent sounds amazing.

 

Fantastic photo. The soap must be great to make you speechless. Seriously, congrats on enjoying the new soap.

 

Ridin' along on this big old jet plane, I've been
Thinkin' about my ho-o-o-me.

(The Steve Miller Band, Steve Miller, director).

 

A one-car, one-plane garage.

 

Understated elegance

 

Wouldja mind saving those comments for the NCAA Feetball Div 1 thread? Oh wait, you did open about shaving. OOPS.

 

Still without words...

 

November 24, 2018- NOthing But Techs

Razor: NDC Post-War US Tech/Fat Handle
Blade: 7 o'Clock Permasharp Stainless (1)
Brush: Razorock Plissoft 22
Soap: Stirling Sheep
Post: Alum, Listerine, WH

No shave yesterday. Today's shave was with the last of my Gold Techs, another '47-'50 whose pat nos were on the "PACKAGE".

The head for this one came as part of a bundle which included a very nice 1918 OT and two Micromatics (a brass MMOC which is missing a blade stop and a chrome MMCP with plating peeling off the cap) and shows few signs of use. The handle is from @jimjo1031, who remembered that I was looking for a Gold Fat Handle. The razor originally came with a partial handle from a New LC (cracked and missing the ball end); the romantic in me likes to think that, sometime in the late 1940s, there lived a man who loved his New LC so much that, when the handle broke, he went out and bought a Tech just so that he could swap the handle onto his beloved New.

There is one interesting and somewhat unusual aspect to this razor. If you look closely, you will see that there is a Gillette logo frosted onto the cap. It is similar to what appears on later Techs, but does not have the frosted area around the logo. I only have one other one like this in my den, a Nickel-plated Tech from this same era (next up in the batting order). I really don't know the significance of the presence of the logo (experts?), whether it was some done for certain versions/markets, a test run for the later etching, or something they all had but which wore off with use (the one on my Nickel Tech is pretty much obscured by issues in the plating).

As for the shave... I actually started with the blade I had been using all week, but quick discovered it had fallen off the cliff. One new blade later and everything was smooth as silk. I did manage to scratch/myself in one spot. I'm not sure if I caught myself with the blade end or a bad letdown, but it stung more than it bled. Just the Shave Gods reminding me to be humble.


A little less than a week left to the month and I am now down to four remaining Gillette Techs- one pre-War, one post-War, and two Vietnam-era.

 

Another excellent post and photo John. Very informative.

 

thank you,,,

 

very nice...

 

Filthy hippies. Well to do, living the lifestyle, capitalistic business owners, but still have that scent of patchouli about them. Keep a garden hose ready for when they visit?

No ARKO was harmed in the spraying of the protesters.