What Single Edge Did You Use Today

Sunday September 15, 2024

GEM pushbutton / GEM SS PTFE
Cella pre-shave gel
Nivea white cream
Bernard Ferguson bowl
Simpson Trafalgar 1 brush
Thayer's unscented
Nivea white balm

Great picture and shave choice!
I plan to use my pushbutton for tomorrow's shave if all goes well.

Razor:    Schick M1 Dial
Blade:    Personna Injector
Lather:  Truefitt and Hill Grafton
Brush:  CaYuen Workshop
Post:    Thayers Facial Tonic,
              Truefitt & Hill Grafton Balm

Great picture!
I am waiting for my Schick M1 Dial to be delivered. Do you enjoy that razor?

Razor:    Schick M1 Dial
Blade:    Personna Injector
Lather:  Truefitt and Hill Grafton
Brush:  CaYuen Workshop
Post:    Thayers Facial Tonic,
              Truefitt & Hill Grafton Balm

Great picture!
I am waiting for my Schick M1 Dial to be delivered. Do you enjoy that razor?

Sure do! As you can see I run mine on seven.

Thanks!

Saturday September 14, 2024

GEM pushbutton / GEM SS PTFE
Cella pre-shave gel
Nivea blue cream
Bernard Ferguson bowl
RR Amici brush
Thayer's unscented
Nivea blue splash

I think that the old GEMs are so cool. I know that the blades are still made, but I often wonder why somebody just doesn't make exactly those same old razors with the revival of wet shaving. With the price of new CNC DE's going close to $200.00, you would think that this would be a no brainer if the old tooling could be found. One Blade did it with the Feather Auto Strop blades. Why can't someone do it with the GEM blades. I mean a real copy of the old razors, not some new, expensive two or three piece design.

You can design a three piece razor and send the CAD files to any machine shop in the world willing to do the work. The old machinery would require setting up a factory and training workers. The economics don't work out.

Certainly everything you said is correct, if you are doing small production runs. However, if you are mass producing by the thousands as GEM certainly did, then making dies and stamping out parts is far cheaper than making things one at a time in a CNC machine. I guess that is my question.....why aren't the Big Boys who already have the factories, or the subcontractors in China and Vietnam, not interested in making these? Parker makes an injector (one that didn't agree with me) that has stamped parts, why can't (won't?) Gillette or someone like that just make GEMs again? I guess I know the answer......they don't want to collapse the sales of their crappy four dollar cartridges.

I hate it when I answer my own questions!

I think that the old GEMs are so cool.  I know that the blades are still made, but I often wonder why somebody just doesn't make exactly those same old razors with the revival of wet shaving.  With the price of new CNC DE's going close to $200.00, you would think that this would be a no brainer if the old tooling could be found.  One Blade did it with the Feather Auto Strop blades.  Why can't someone do it with the GEM blades.  I mean a real copy of the old razors, not some new, expensive two or three piece design.

You can design a three piece razor and send the CAD files to any machine shop in the world willing to do the work.  The old machinery would require setting up a factory and training workers.  The economics don't work out.

Certainly everything you said is correct, if you are doing small production runs.  However, if you are mass producing by the thousands as GEM certainly did, then making dies and stamping out parts is far cheaper than making things one at a time in a CNC machine.  I guess that is my question.....why aren't the Big Boys who already have the factories, or the subcontractors in China and Vietnam, not interested in making these?  Parker makes an injector (one that didn't agree with me) that has stamped parts, why can't (won't?) Gillette or someone like that just make GEMs again?  I guess I know the answer......they don't want to collapse the sales of their crappy four dollar cartridges. 

I hate it when I answer my own questions!

Bingo!

Razor:  Gem Push-Button Gold
Blade:  Personna GEM PTFE
Brush:  Made-Rite 500PB
Lather:  Seaforth Black Watch
Post:    Thayers Facial Tonic,
              Seaforth Black Watch Toner

Razor:    Schick M1 Dial
Blade:    Personna Injector
Lather:  Truefitt and Hill Grafton
Brush:  CaYuen Workshop
Post:    Thayers Facial Tonic,
              Truefitt & Hill Grafton Balm

Great picture!
I am waiting for my Schick M1 Dial to be delivered. Do you enjoy that razor?

Sure do! As you can see I run mine on seven.

Thanks!

I look forward to getting mine and giving it a try!

Thanks again!

Growth: 2 day beard
Prep: Warm shower: Stirling Sheep bar soap
Pre: None

Brush: Maggard Razors 24mm SHD 2-Band Badger bulb knot with Maggard Razors sky blue 25mm handle
Lather: MacDuff's Soap Company - Aspen Parkland (unscented) shave soap
Load/Lather Bowl: HC&C shave bowl (straight walled)

Razor: GEM Push Button
Blade: Personna Super Stainless Steel (D6)

Third Pass neck and mustache area:
Razor: Schick 500 Injector Razor
Blade: Chinese Schick
Jatai clear shave cream to shave around a cut that is healing from another shave.

Three passes for the neck and mustache area. Two passes elsewhere.

I realized that this was only the second shave with the Push Button. I think I picked up as one of a few razors at the same time and never got around to shaving with it a second time (until tonight).

Razor:  Schick N3
Blade:  Personna
Lather:  Long Rifle Hivernant
Brush:  Simpson Emperor 3 in Super
Post:    Thayers + Long Rifle Hivernant

Razor: Atelier Durdan La Faulx ++ Titanium
Blade: Schick P-30