Injector & SE Party !!!

Send it to me and put it out of your mind...

 

I will be using my new to me Bullet Tip tomorrow. It cleaned up really well, and looks like it was not used much at all.

 

Nice shavers..I love mine..These are very Angle Sensitive..Once you dial them in you can get Awesome shaves out of them..

Billy..

 

Excellent!

 

Six days in a row with the type A and a Chick blade. What a great shaver. It's a toss up between this and the Type C1 for best repeater IMO.

 

That is such a generous offer

 

What a score! The whole ensemble is simply devine!
They didn't leave anything out! And yes...I love the blank blade with the "Guiding Eye" directions too....Thats always gonna be a crowd pleaser....Bet you are really going to love getting on with this one....

 

You lucky ba$7@rd! Looks like that 'A' of yours might just be the key to "Repeater Heaven".....One of the best hangs in "Injector Paradise"......enjoy every stroke....This one is "all the good Col's" no one else can lay claim to any of it! That does put it in a very special catagory....

 

Wow.....you can't fault @Karl G for his generousity....you're not going to pass up this offer are you?!!!

 

Nice quote......I'm gonna be plagerizing this one....!

 

"Blast from the Past" Check out post #72 on this SoS pg.....I learned to shave on a Hydro-magic...used injectors through most of my young guy days...Fell in with a Bad crowd and went down the slippery slope with the Cartridge razors for numerous decades...Rediscovered TWS....Fell in love with DE shaving and joined here...a couple years later StingraysRock/Jeff piffed me a Hydro-magic and the rest is history...

Check out post #78 on this SoS pg....This was my first shave with an injector in more decades than I care to count, lol... http://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/sos-january-3-9-2011.21406/page-4

 

You're Welcome..

Billy..

 

Well, seems like the problem resolved itself.....

From, "What are you waiting on to arrive":
Solved a dilemma.
I had just bought a NIB/NOS Gillette Twinjector that I didn't know if I had the 'heart' to open up and use...

Pretty thing:


But, seems like I don't have to cross that bridge quite yet as I just picked up a used one

I am now waiting on the arrival of this one - that will be put to use as soon as it arrives:

 

You still need to open it for the correct blades

 

@Darkbulb is Doing a Rule No 3..

Billy..

 

I will be using Schick Twins if they fit. If not I...uh...actually bought some NOS Gillette twinjector razor packs

 

Rolls Razor..



Two Pass Shaving Routine...

Hot Water prep & massage with Coconut Oil
Rolls Razor
Wedge Hollow Ground Blade
Hans Baier Silver Tip Badger
French Monsovan Bol Tallow soap
Thayers Original Witch Hazel

I had a lovely Two Pass Shave today with my Rolls Razor..The blade was very sharp indeed..I got a hold of some Red Honing Paste & Honed the blade within the Rolls System for 40 laps & another 40 Stropping laps a side..I finished the blade off on a leather strop outwith the Rolls System as you can see on the 2nd photo above..The Rolls wedge blade wont fit a standard stropping handle so I just use some tape to get a good handle on it..The blade is very sharp indeed..I didn't use the safety bar whilst shaving...The safety bar is to stop the blade getting damaged whilst its flipping over whilst honing & stropping within the Rolls System..It doesn't serve any other purpose really except to further protect the blade when you sit the razor down of course..

I have got to say this in all earnest ..The Rolls Razor is the next best thing to the CV Heljestrand without a doubt..I have used just about every Lather Catcher & French Hoe with a Hollow Ground Blade & they don't look near the Rolls with the exception of the CV Heljestrand of course..There is a lot of loose talk in Forums about shaving with a straight edge blade on a stick..I am guilty of this myself..As you can see in the photo above the Rolls is probably the only one that is truly a straight edge blade on a stick..

The Rolls is just so easy to use to those that have ever used a traditional straight razor..Its the exact same shaving angle and principle..The most dangerous part is handling these Hollow Ground Blades or having an accident them rather than cutting yourself whilst shaving...These blades are lethal & would make a wonderful weapon for self defence..No bones about that..One WTG Pass & One ATG Pass & ended up with a mixed BBS & DFS Result..I am finding it difficult now to shave with any Gem blade SE these days..I still love my Injectors of course ..Bit of a pardox I know but that's just the natural laws of Yin & Yang in my Nature..

Billy..

 

I shaved with the MM Bullet Tip today for the first time. I loaded a dept. store carbon steel blade and remembered to let the seeing eye do the work. With the head flat on my face htis razor is a wonderful tool. I do need to spend more time with my Gem Micro Matics, as I have some trouble remembering to keep the head flat against the face on the ATG & XTG passes. The Chiseled Face Sherlock soap is very slick and lathered well with the Vie-Long Badger and Horsehair brush. There was some irritation because of this but overall a shave AGAIG.

 

I also shaved this morning with the bullet tip! I used a NOS blade and it wasn't terrible but definitely not the same as a Personna. Took an extra pass to get a DFS. So that ended the experiment with the old blades. The package was pristine and the blade had some sort of sticky grease on it when I took it out of the wrapper. After I cleaned it with some WD40 it looked pretty good, but apparently not as sharp as I'm used too. I had fun trying it though.

 

So you CAN have your cake & eat it!

Regards,
Chris