08-08-2022, 07:29 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/thr...es.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.
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.
Yeah, I know what you mean, the side support was used on the Bs and Cs so it would make sense it would be after the T but according to the B&B thread it was the other way round. It must be very difficult to determine all these years later.
Either way it looks like they had the basic design and were not afraid to try a few variations as they went along. The design on the one on the bay is not one I have seen either, I rather like the brass bands.