Fall is here! Hello October! Spooky spooky! Another month to show off those newly acquired acquisitions! Polish your keyboards, stretch your fingers, replace your smoke detector batteries too! Huh? Yeah, might as well do everything! Ready? Set? Camera!
Got some goodies today The brush is an ever ready 100 @Enrico is going to be receiving soon to give a reknot. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have wanted to get a Burma shave brush. I’ll have to look out for one. Thank you! I like the size of this one. It’s bigger than I thought.
I got mine at a local drug store that just happened to have some. Lucky indeed. Good luck in getting one.
In addition to the puck I got last week (old formula): - 300ml aftershave (sale price, too good to pass) - 3 pucks of old formula soap (tallow, old ladies purse) I think I am close to a lifetime supply now (5 pucks, 2 sticks, two bottles of aftershave).
Arrived yesterday thanks to a great lot buy and replating deal from @jay_gatz ! These Gem Junior razors were NOS but time and environment took a little toll on the original plating - but Jay got them replated at Back Roads Gold and these are gorgeous! Here's mine... Also my "FedEx lost it" replacement shaving cream order arrived from Maggard Razors yesterday. Italian version of Palmolive Classic and Ach Brito Lavanda creams...
WOW, very nice. When I first was scrolling down I was thinking who was the lucky person who found the NOS. That is nice to see it better than a new one, I think most Gems were given a quick gold wash and sent out the door if that. The professional re-plating is a lot nicer a job & richer looking eye candy.
Thanks Ron! It is a stunner for sure! As I understand it, before it is plated in gold, it is supposed to be plated in nickel first and ASR skipped the nickel. Just went straight up gold plated over the brass. Don't know if that is true or not but I've seen that said in several different places. I doubt anyone really knows unless they worked there. But it does say gold-plated right on the box. And it could explain why many of their gold plated razors look like brass, worn spots being the actual brass but hard to differentiate between the brass and the surrounding gold plate. The Gem Junior "Parade" was made 1938-1942, yes? Seems about the time they would be trying to cut costs in their competition against Gillette?
I recently found a 1956 (birth year) Gillette red tip on the auction site for a good price. The photos were not very clear, but I thought it looked ok. When I got it, I could see that it was badly out of alignment. See the before pictures. So I sent it to Razor Emporium for their tune up service. It only took about a week. I am delighted with the results! I had an excellent first shave with it this morning. BEFORE: AFTER:
Kind of a montage Craig's list and Ebay hauls. Beyond the tools I acquired there were a bunch of shave related items: -Ascot by Palmer airline travel kit containing a shaving stick (in a wooden tube) and a container of talc. -A Japanese Aida travel razor -Gem 17 tooth Clog Pruf razor in case -Wiss One Thousand barber siccors -Travel razor with case (I believe Russian) -Lady's Gillette T2 -150 Gem blades -10 pack Gem blades -Two Yardley shaving soap wooden bowls -Simpson #4 Keyhole -Red and butterscotch shaving brush (I believe German)
Just received these in the mail today, Speick is getting away from Tallow based in their formula because of Europe is herding soap manufactures in this direction from my limited understanding. Speick is good stuff with a nice mild spicy scent with excellent lather qualities IMO. Have some great shaves!
I bought a jar of tabac, I refuse to get backup sticks of Speick. It's good but not going there every time they change an oldie but goodie. Congrats
A jar of Tabac. I tried this a long time ago, but never found it to be satisfactory. Thought I would revisit it to see if it was me or the soap. Since I heard they had changed the formula, I made sure I got the Tallow version. Surprised it was still around:
