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".
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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.
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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.
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