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Gary, what are you using for shims (how thick). I know many use cut-down blades, but others make them from other materials.

Thanks,
Tom

Thanks, Chris. I suspect this will help folks new to the forum in the future.

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Tom

Based upon the date, the knurled, flared handle and the celluloid, ivory colored case and blade boxes, it appears to be a Gillette Aristocrat, made from 1914 to 1925. It appears, with a picture, in the Waits compendium in the second Gillette section, pages 1 & 2. There is also a picture of the r...

I collect safety razors so, I've had the opportunity to try MANY different makes and models. I thought I had settled on a couple of DE models until I tried the older SE's. Once I started testing razors of this type, I settled on the Gem Junior Bar razor loaded with a Gem stainless steel PTFE coated ...

If that brush was used every day for forty years, your dad must have taken exceptional care of it. It look very nice for a brush with that much use. It certainly deserves to be displayed in a place of honor.

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Tom

In the description of this forum, it specifically describes the subject as follows: " Let's talk about Double Edge razors from Gillette, Merkur and Schick. Discuss different DE blades from Wilkinson, Derby, Personna, Feather and more ." It seems to me that that description provides some la...

I still have my first razor. It is a Gillette blue tip TTO. I've tried it in recent years and found it to be much too mild for my taste today. It was probably fine for the peach fuzz I had when I got it in my mid-teens. I also have my second razor, which is a Schick injector that I used for years. I...

Your Tech will give you a very mild but good shave. You metioned the chrome finish. Actually, the razor, if it isn't gold plated, is nickel plated. Nickel is a little less shiny than chrome but it also isn't as slippery, which is a good characteristic in a tool used with wet hands.

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Tom

These seven day sets in this nickel plated case were made by Wilkinson Sword Co. Ltd. in the 1940's.

I have one like it but I haven't worked up the nerve to try to strop a blade into shape and use it. I really suspect the blades would need to be honed.

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Tom

believe me, i tried about 4 or 5 NOS valet blades. they go south over time . Dave, I don't think they "went south", I think they are too old to have ever been north. I can't say that I've had personal experience with old Valet blades, but from my general experience, having shaved in the p...

Dave, when you hone a straight razor blade, you have the spine of the blade as well as the edge down against the hone. When you put the safety razor wedge blade in the stropping handle, you are actually holding the spine up off the hone. Is there a reason you feel that these wedge blades should be h...

its one of those things that turns up every so often, probably made for some holiday or occasion. the talc is most likely the chemical equivalent of mustard gas at this point and smell utterly horrible, and i can imagine that if you opened the shave cream tube, it would either be perfectly useable,...