30 Day Rule/Focus; September 2025. All Are Welcome!

my first simpson shave cream was unscented and came in an aluminium tin.

 

fine red tip shave and pic Joe.

 

Casey.

 

Congrats on your new addition Gary!

 

I agree!

 

Thanks Gary.

 

Welcome back Pierpaolo! Miss your pics.

 

Great pics, setup and shave Paul!

 

Excellent setup and shave Gary.

 

Thanks Gary. It has a sentimental value because it was made during my birth year. Also, it shaves well.

 

Thank you Sir

Nice Chubby 2

Well that's what I thought, don't remember seeing that brush before. Love the retro look, and a fine Red Tip shave to boot.

 

Thanks Joe

and you Gary

fine new toy and a fine shave. True vintage style

Good call Joe. Quit while you are ahead is my motto, well one of them anyway

Cool
Ah yes, Anthony Benedetto, ever the professional. Just stands there and delivers

More Tech magic!

 

Thanks Chris.

 

Thanks again Chris.

 

I almost went with a when getting my dad, a Gillette Super Speed for his 65th birthday in November (born in 1960) was the year model from when he first started shaving at age 12 in late 1972 having a black plastic grip but from what I was told my dad's the plastic cracked, and he used the model with the plastic glued onto the handle with early super glue before he left the house after dropping out of university the first time before joining the Army when my dad got an actual Twin Trac II, the Atra was hated with the original single blade design by the military where before joining the Army he used different disposables mainly the Good News model or the Bic single blade, preferring the Bic as it was cheaper. The Twin Trac II became too rusty in the 1990's and I got him for his birthday in 1996 or 1997 a Personna as I think the Dorco was a reverse plastic where the metal is on the Gillette with metal over the plastic on the edges, so it was kind of light for a shaver when comparing the only two models in a Shopko.

I ended up getting a birth year F 2 I found on e-Bay with the case for $19.11, buying because it came with the case fully intact along with the blades 65 of them, a stand for his current shaver the Aristocrat 1946--1948 coated brass era since the one he took from my Micro Touch One set is barely big enough and is starting to rust on the welds, and a Twinplex Stropper the one of the two in a set where it comes with instructions if he wants to use it.

 

I think that was the kind I had.

 

Most of the same aresenal as yesterday, but two differences:

Brush-Razorock BOAR((The Almond Brush). and

Lather-The Wet Shave Store(Barbershop scent). Name is El Peluquero.

Great shave today. The brush scooped up the soap nicely. Clean, clear shave all over. No damage. 2 healthy passes. The soap works real well with Clubman A.S. Both are barbershop scents after all. As Outstanding As It Gets.

 

Nice to see somebody can use a disposable well, I can't do this because 1 blade is not enough, the 2 blade models for me at least became crappier as they made the blades closeer together, and 3+ blades are expensive for a disposable. The Mach 3 is not the Mach III and the Twin Trac II/Atra Sensor model that Persona and Dorco sold the shaver part became hard to find in 2017 with the 7'oClock model of Twin Trac II was not yet on the market online outside of Asia/Russia.

When I spotted in late 2017 a pre Rick Harris Micro Touch One in a store, before this they only had 3 piece as the only type of Safe-T-Shaver/double edge shaver on the North American market, the models online started coming to the North American market like the Q-shave, the Weishi 3 butterfly models including the adjustable, and the Baili model but no real reviews, only for the Micro Touch One due to being on the market so I got the last Micro Touch One in a local Walgreens that was a Pre Rick Harris endorsed model where the packaging was all dented up. I need a butterfly Safe-T-Shaver for ease of cleaning in middle of shaves for the 75--80% clean to keep going until the end with final clean as I tend to have the blade clog up in middle of shave so an easier way to open up is preferred even if a butterfly Safe-T-Shaver gives a lesser shave due to how it closes or how it holds the blade with potential for one side to hold the blade down more than the other I will take the butterfly with the risk of flaws because having to open up a 3 piece shaver in middle of a shave for cleaning due to being fully clogged seems like a pain.

I now use a Gillette Adjustable slim handle as of April 2025 I paid $32.87 USA on e-Bay because the Micro Touch One can as of 2024 keep going never really stopping so I can like in March 2025 have the twist knob get stuck having to throw on floor as the last attempt to get it open. Also I wanted an adjustable model but with ones like the Weishi model failing, the Viking having an aggressive closed comb on one side and no comb/smooth comb on the other, with the Rockwell model being expensive, I went with an old no longer made model as nothing was going to match what I needed and once I found I loved the model, got a backup with case I paid $36.77 USA on e-Bay for. I still have the Micro Touch One with a recently bought cheap small case AliExpress that came with an all plastic butterfly shaver that was a 2 plastic I am send to the recycle to the use the case for airplane travel and will probably use the same case for my Gillette Adjustable slim handle when traveling as it is the longest size model that will fit the case.

 

thank you Joe.it's a very smooth shaving razor.it will only use feather hs-10 or original blades(not recommended).Japan made similar design razors back in the day so this is why modern blades still exist exist that fit these razors.gillette stopped making valet type blades in the mid 1950's,10 or so years after discontinuing all valet type razors.