I have two of those. One, my late grandfather's, is on my "rota". and it shaves pretty well. I tried shimming it to mimic the heavier older...
Took a wander round a car boot sale yesterday morning and came home with these - the laurel blade box is full and untouched and there is a single...
This followed me home on Sunday. Brown Bakelite Wardonia - which does NOT take standard double edged blades.
Thanks - it looks quite nice. I don't suppose you have a PDF of the instructions do you ?
Does anyone have an instruction sheet / in-pack thingie for a Valet Auto-strop safety razor they can pdf for me ?
Many thanks - that looks good - but I had already put a bid in on one :-0
A recent "bag". The Valet blade was in the bakelite Rolls Razor blade case I found on Sunday. The Gilette 195 dates from 3q 1967 and is my current...
Ah. The one on the left gives a different blade gap on either side :-)
And another (but this time a Souplex)[ATTACH] [ATTACH] . There is not a mark on the Bakelite case...
Picked this (Ever ready) [ATTACH] up the other day in a box with 2 strait razors (and a sealskin strop) and (yet another) Rolls. Patent date looks...
I have been thinking about honing "off case" and a couple of people have suggested one (or two) thicknesses of insulating tape on the heel of the...
[ATTACH] I recently picked up a container of Rolls strop dressing in it's original cardboard box (price 1s 7d) complete with it's own...
It has been suggested that I am over-thinking this :-) I await your information. Have a great vacation. :-)
Guilty. I are an engineer :-)
I have looked through the brilliant Rolls thread and I MAY have missed a point but I have a question - even after reading all that :-) I want to...
I have read this with great interest. My Rolls has the hone reversed - the old "up" side was a bit deeply marked. The strop was also marked & I...
Hi. John from near Cambridge, UK. More widely known for wearing a beard, but when I DO shave, I like to do it wet. Currently playing about with a...
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