The youngest also wants my pistol. I dunno about that one...I think he's gonna be the wild one of the bunch. Anyway, he's only six.
Art of Shaving's double edge blades are $1.00 each, not 10 cents, at least for the Gillette Platinums ($20 for four packs of five blades each). Checking today, one store had eight safety razors, twelve cartridge razors and three straight razors, so they do sell safety razors. The safety razors and cartridge razors are both displayed with equal prominence. Customers have long had the opportunity to shy away from $4 cartridges to double edge blades.
Received this email I can't wait for Friday and see if the tech razor will be released and up for sale. Curiosity is killing me.
I'd love to see a side shot of that razor. I really want to see if it is a Tech-like baseplate or something more like an EJ89 clone.
There is something about the head that makes me think it's the ej89 head. I've always wondered why all the low end brands use that type of head. I see razors all over the place from $10-$20 with the same type of head and sporting stainless steel handles or wooden handles.
Something about that baseplate has always looked "wrong" since I saw the first AoS picture that included a Tech-handled razor. I hope I'm wrong, though. I just always assumed the ej89-style heads were so common because there was a factory or two in Pakistan that was turning them out by the container load. According to the rumors, though, that should not be the case for the AoS Tech as, supposedly, it's manufactured in Ohio. That brings me to another question, one which has niggled at me since hearing that the AoS razor was delayed as Gillette was not happy with the results and had to redesign the razor: Why is it so common to have a "thick" baseplate on a modern DE razor as opposed to the fairly thin ones on the vintage razors? Is there a user preference that drives it? I ask because I assume that the delays were because either a) Gillette was unhappy with manufacturing yields and the redesign was to accommodate modern manufacturing or b) some test group was unhappy with how the razor shaved. I've been assuming the former was the case, but wonder if there is a core group of modern DE users who wouldn't be happy with a clone of the original Tech, forcing Gillette to create a modern version for 21st Century sensibilities.
Have wondered that too. I could be very wrong but IF high speed automated mills have become cheaper than hydraulic presses to run and maintain, maybe it's easier to machine them out than to stamp them out like the Tech baseplates were? I'm also assuming mills can be run in smaller scale operations than presses typically are. Pure guesswork, I could be totally off.
I always thought it was due to the materials used in the manufacturing process. The old Gillette razors had brass heads, which is not too brittle. Modern razors like the ej89 use Zamak in the heads, which I would think would cracking easily if it was too thin. Your theory sounds very plausible, though, and I hadn't thought of it.
I don't see anything on their website and I called 3 stores. The stores all states that they will get them in sometime this year but no release date yet.
Here is the link: https://www.abovethetie.com/collections/nickel-safety-razors/products/nickel-gillette-tech I was wrong-it is for a replated vintage tech.................sorry 'bout that!
$122.65 http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1&year=1940 $125 http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=7.26&year1=1940&year2=2016 So if they charge $125, that will be about right, with inflation. I guess I will stick with my vintage brass with nickel plating, that I got for around $6-$12. I have several. Some included with other razors, as extras.