The Haul: December 2018

My Xmas gifts were great

 

Got these from my mom. Looking forward to trying the Parker adjustable out.



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No experience with the blades, your mom did great! Variant and AV are awesome

 

◘ The Chinese safety bar/open comb head arrived yesterday. Have not shaved with it but the chrome (?) plating looks really, really nice and the fit seems square. The only handle I have that screws onto it, though, is a skinny ball end Tech handle. Fat Tech nickel handle would be a better match.

◘ Walmart has those Cremo body wash/cologne sets 50% off. I picked up the Bourbon/Oak and Blue Cedar/Cypress. Haven't tried them yet either.

◘ Local thrift keeps a tote full of watches at the counter for $3.50 each whether they work or not. 99% are worthless junk even if they run but I usually scrounge for bands. Yesterday found a 1990 Caravelle (Bulova sub-brand) dive watch. Was not high end when it was new and it's now pretty rough but it looks okay for 30 years of wear. Rolled the dice, loaded a new battery and it's running like a champ. Here it is on my orange Barton. My new knockaround watch.

 

The first watch I bought was a Caravelle in '73, which I saved from my paper route money. It cost a little over $60.00 back then. It was my every day watch until it met it's demise in a plastic grinding machine some years later.

 

I bought my dad a little plastic diver style Caravelle back in the early 90s. He wore it off and on until a few years ago. I keep a battery in it so it won't lock up. The thing just will not die.

 

Picked up a couple of Old Spice mugs tonight (one with a puck of soap) on a random antique store stop.
It's not like I need any more mugs but the prices and the puck of soap persuaded me.

A very nice Hull Pottery 01 ('38-'44) for $6. This was the first mug offered by Shulton. The inside bottom is stained and there is a very small chip on the lip that you can see at about 10 o'clock in both photos. The paint on the words and ship is nice and dark. All in all, excellent condition for a mug that's 74-80 years old. I was thrilled to find it in such fantastic condition.



The newer mug is an American Glass Early o6 (1961-64) and it was priced at $9 with a nearly new puck of soap. The vendor's booth had a 20% offer for cash transactions so the mug and soap set me back $7.20.
You can still see (faintly) the soap's ship and logo imprint so there's plenty of product left. It had a thick coat of dust on the top so I used my wife's toothbrush to clean most of it off. I'll just need to wash a little more off the top before using it.

 

Picked up a Schick type L. Just got through cleaning it up. It was the Championship razor but the striping was all messed up. I scrapped the striping off and sanded the area where the striping was lightly. I then soaked the handle in Clorox to remove some staining and polished the head up. The little Schick cleaned up great for a cheap little razor. I like the razor better without the striping.

 

I really liked my schick when I had one except the blades were hit and miss, so I gave it up due to poor blade performance.

 

Is there any blades you would recommend?

 

I'm probably not the best to ask, but I used Personna and Chicks (Chinese Schicks). Try asking those on the SE thread, I sure they may more choices.

 

went shopping at antique shops today and found this.. the proper case for a u.s prewar tech.finally my u.s prewar has a house..it had a poor canadian old type in it.$10 taxe s in..

 

Late Christmas Present From a Friend.


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Wow, sleep well at night? Friends like that, I'm just sayin.
You do know, the biggest part of dust is dead skin cells.

 

That's a real nice set. I have a Surrey brush the same color that I'm going to restore soon ... I may highlite the lines in blue ... I really think they have a nice shape.

 

On my wandering yesterday, I found these...


All Gillette razors.
They cleaned up rather nice. The two meatal techs need some thread work, kinda loose but ok, the black tech cap was in the middle of cleaning for painting but it looks great just silver, so I'm gonna leave it. The flare tip and slim are great, better than user grade. What you find at junk stores.

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Great score.

 

I made a file and uploaded it to Walmart Photo and got this coffee cup. I did it on the 25th, and it was at Walmart on the 28th. I picked it up this morning. It was $9 and change including tax. If you would like to make one for yourself, PM me your email address and I will shoot you the file.

 

Schick blades are a great starting point.



Personna blades are also good. The package is bigger with 20 blades. If you want Personna blades I would check with @Linuxguile and his Andrew's Shave Shop for a great price and first class service.



There are also Schick Proline blades. These are a fairly new addition to the field and are the sharpest of these three, in my opinion. Andrew's Shave Shop is also a great source for these blades. The only thing about these is that there is no injector key, so you have to load the blades manually or cross-load them into a blank cartridge.



Then you have lots of vintage selections from the bay and elsewhere.