(08-07-2022, 03:55 AM)Grassy Wrote:

(08-06-2022, 10:00 PM)GAW9576 Wrote: I thought the A1 had a guard bar that connected at the ends (like pictured below not my razor) rather than a single connection in the middle. I thought the  the single connection in the middle was the A2. I most certainly could be mistaken but would like to know as I have the A with the single connection in the middle also. 
I'd like to find one like pictured below eventually. 

Well I'm certainly no authority on the Schicks, I was using the B&B https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/schick-type-a-b-and-c-magazine-repeating-razors-for-dummies.582671/ categories. Interestingly there is a conversation with T White about the difference in the head which suggests yours was the first and changed to the T-bar in 1927. It was decided there were at least 3 variations including the textured handle but for some reason they are all categorised as the A1. It would seem to be sensible to create a 2 and 3 to recognise the these differences,  then yours might be the A1, mine the A2 and the textured handle the A3. I don't know who might decide such things.

Either way I'm loving these razors. I have my A2 and the C3, I've dug them out recently as I await the imminent arrival of a B1. 
These and the early Autostrops seem to me to be fantastical pieces of razor engineering. I hope you are enjoying yours as much as I am.

(08-07-2022, 06:50 PM)Whiterook Wrote:

(08-07-2022, 03:55 AM)Grassy Wrote: Well I'm certainly no authority on the Schicks, I was using the B&B https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/schick-type-a-b-and-c-magazine-repeating-razors-for-dummies.582671/ categories. Interestingly there is a conversation with T White about the difference in the head which suggests yours was the first and changed to the T-bar in 1927. It was decided there were at least 3 variations including the textured handle but for some reason they are all categorised as the A1. It would seem to be sensible to create a 2 and 3 to recognise the these differences,  then yours might be the A1, mine the A2 and the textured handle the A3. I don't know who might decide such things.

Either way I'm loving these razors. I have my A2 and the C3, I've dug them out recently as I await the imminent arrival of a B1. 
These and the early Autostrops seem to me to be fantastical pieces of razor engineering. I hope you are enjoying yours as much as I am.

Actually I have the variant with the T support. I may have worded things funny adding to the confusion. The one I posted a picture of isn't mine, just a picture I downloaded to show an example.
I have an A, B and a C and really like all 3.

I'm not that knowledgeable on these either but I would have thought the center bar to be earlier since later razors use the side support configuration.  This razor recently sold at auction.  The handle is not one I have seen before.

(08-08-2022, 02:12 PM)GAW9576 Wrote:

(08-07-2022, 03:55 AM)Grassy Wrote: Well I'm certainly no authority on the Schicks, I was using the B&B https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/schick-type-a-b-and-c-magazine-repeating-razors-for-dummies.582671/ categories. Interestingly there is a conversation with T White about the difference in the head which suggests yours was the first and changed to the T-bar in 1927. It was decided there were at least 3 variations including the textured handle but for some reason they are all categorised as the A1. It would seem to be sensible to create a 2 and 3 to recognise the these differences,  then yours might be the A1, mine the A2 and the textured handle the A3. I don't know who might decide such things.

Either way I'm loving these razors. I have my A2 and the C3, I've dug them out recently as I await the imminent arrival of a B1. 
These and the early Autostrops seem to me to be fantastical pieces of razor engineering. I hope you are enjoying yours as much as I am.

(08-07-2022, 06:50 PM)Whiterook Wrote: Actually I have the variant with the T support. I may have worded things funny adding to the confusion. The one I posted a picture of isn't mine, just a picture I downloaded to show an example.
I have an A, B and a C and really like all 3.

I'm not that knowledgeable on these either but I would have thought the center bar to be earlier since later razors use the side support configuration.  This razor recently sold at auction.  The handle is not one I have seen before.

Wait the later razors would include the Schick B which to the best of my knowledge all have the T support. I know there is a rare type C with the side supports though.
Anyway it can definitely all get confusing. Especially when like Grassy said some places reference 3 distinctly different variations as A1s.

That A you have pictured looks really cool.

(08-08-2022, 06:40 PM)Whiterook Wrote:

(08-08-2022, 02:12 PM)GAW9576 Wrote: Wait the later razors would include the Schick B which to the best of my knowledge all have the T support. I know there is a rare type C with the side supports though.
Anyway it can definitely all get confusing. Especially when like Grassy said some places reference 3 distinctly different variations as A1s.

That A you have pictured looks really cool.

It may be correct then. My B1 is a T-bar, but my B2 & B3 are side bar.   I think all three C models are side bar.