I went to the barbershop today. While my barber was cutting, I mentioned that I had gone back to a double edge razor, at which point he said " I have something for you" and pulls out a large bulk box of DE blades. He said they were given to him by someone at one of our small plastics factories here when them eliminated some machine that used DE blades. They were in a long box and had a rod through the center of the blade so the edges never contacted anything. I removed enough to make a stack of blades a bit over 3" high and sent me home with them, and offered to hone and strop the old sraight I have had for nearly 40 years and never used.
With 3 feet of blades you are ready for "shavepocalypse" Are they marked so you have an idea what they are? I hope your face loves them! Bill
Not 3 feet 3 inches, still a lot of blades. No they have no markings whatsoever. I probably will try one in a couple of days, just started with a new feather blade this morning so will get a couple of more uses out of it first.
I'm really do not know anything about posting pictures, every time I tried just got frustrated. There is not anything to make a picture of. A stack of plain fairly dark blades I put in a plastic box, padded with a piece of card stock. I gave one a try this morning, actually in what I presume is a Fat Boy, short thick handled Gillette adjustable that I picked up two weeks ago in an antique mall. The razor had a slightly bent bar and the doors were very sticky. I stuck a larger screwdriver between the bar and frame ( guess that's what you call it) then struck handle on bench and let inertia move the razor and straighten the bar. The shave was good. The razor shaved as nicely as a new EJ. Blades were fine. I am so new to this DE shaving I have not compared very many, but I would place them between the Feathers I bought and some Lord sampler blades. Just looking at them I am thinking that they are carbon steel vs stainless. I will probably know tonight or tomorrow morning when I check for rust.
