Back from the in-laws. Everything is pretty self explanatory. My only two questions now are about the Gillette Techmatic and the Schick adjustable. From the looks of my research, the Gillette uses a cartridge that is replaced when the "blade" is used up. It's a band of metal that it turned to the next unused spot, 5 times, then replaced. Like a typewriter ribbon.... And the Schick has an extra slide/button on the underside that my other Schick adjustable doesn't have. ?? Any ideas on these two? These are all pre-cleaning, comensing now.
How about something a little different today? A Durham Duplex in fantastic condition. Most I have seen and considered had some rust issues, but this baby is pristine. Came with original blades. However, I acquired some new ones from Personna through tryablade.com to have a go with at some point. Interesting razor that should be fun to try.
Unlike a typewriter ribbon, the steel used in the techmatic's rolls wants to return to it's curved shape, and never really flattens out. This tends to have a detrimental effect on the shave.
Well, I remember my father bought a techmatic back in 1969 and he hated it. He would say the shave was not as good as his old Gillette adjustable. He had a slim and a fatboy. I used to play around with the techmatic and wind the ribbon on him. I was always in trouble. Just so you know, I do want to acquire one so I can see what the fuss was about. You are lucky.
My bottle of Royall Lyme arrived just in time for tonight's hot date with my beautiful wife. I've wanted a bottle of this stuff since forever.
Picked this up at the local animal shelter resale store. My first shaving related find 'in the wild' so I overpaid some at $10. I'm going to put a chunk of Arko in it.
Its not very clean on the inside. Rust stains from ground water is my guess but I'm not putting anything shave or food related in it till I clean it out really well. It was marked as a mustache mug along with 3 mustache mugs. Since I don't have a mustache I left those for someone else.
it's definitely shave related but I could never wrap my head around the use or necessity of them. maybe from a time before running water.
That was my thought. I straight shave in the bedroom away from kids so I'll use it in there. I wish I had some MWF to go it it but my sample is nearly gone. I'll pick up more later, for now Its getting a chunk of Arko.
