Stop right there, don't buy that! or Shave goods best avoided...

$8.00? Wowzers.

A fool and his money....

 

So true, but they’re still an excellent shaver albeit a bit rough finish-wise.

 

They are obviously a copy of something and i have tried my best to find out what that could be but to no avail.

If i could get the original and it shave as good as its copy, i would be thrilled!

I keep looking.. .

 

That's the first I've heard a "Yuma" mentioned. Checked on Ebay and I must say, if looks mean anything, I like it. Or course, it doesn't, but I could see myself trying one some day.

 

Hey, Jon! Glad you're still around. How are you? You dropped out of 30DC. Wondering how are you progressing with your shavette shaves?

 

Oh hello!

I is/am/are just so busy atm that i have had barely any time to get just 1 shave in a week, never mind find time for the internet!

I shall update my shavette thread!

 

Dridecker! Now there's a name I haven't seen in a long while. Ten years ago, he was one of the great positive influences on TSD. Glad to see someone resurrected one of this threads.

 

Looked at some pics of the Yuma and it looks like a closed comb copy of the Merkur 41c 1904 classic or a Gillette Old Type head

 

Well given some oldest Yuma models were from the late 1960's were made in communist countries like Kazakstan, Georgia and even East Germany.

However a cheap clone version in China where they are now for western markets when you can find the model only selling as a 12 pack, come 12 to a pack for around $18--$19 that the materials are even cheaper being all pure cast aluminum with Zinc only for the top plate that is not really a Yuma but has another name on the package as well. On the Chinese version the comb the combs they are more bumps creating a comb rather than an actual comb as if they attempted to cast the original Yuma using Wax casting and the number 2 HB hexagon pencil shaped skinny handle is like 2 inches or 5 cm long, so most people hate the model to use.

It is possible this better communist made and now middle eastern made, models were/are clones of the really old West German Merkur models back in the 1960's and 1970's. With the later split of the Chinese Communism bringing about the clone of the Yuma Clone just to have something for shaving the 1970's while the western factories were being made in the country and set up so you could have actual shavers.

 

I'll nominate Maggard's Tobacco&Leather soap. It's about 80%Tobacco vs. 20% Leather, and the Tobacco is more CIGARETTE tobacco....kinda stinx. I ordered this many yars ago, maybe they got the idea to make it a more MILD tobacco.

 

I have that in the cologne and find that it has a great scent ...... maybe you got a bad formulation.

 

Possibly blondblue smells things differently from the average person or the one they got was an older bottle sitting wherever blondblue bought the item?

 

I'm going with your latter choice.

 

Could well be.