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(09-03-2025, 04:28 PM)Jayaruh Wrote: (09-03-2025, 03:37 PM)Rocketman Wrote: SEptember!! I can jump on board today as well! (When I can’t match Jayaruh I will repeat the shave of the day before.)
The 1914 was darn near my first SE and for sure one of my favourites. I have a trusty beat up 1st gen I have used for many years, but today to celebrate SEptember I am going to use a Canadian manufactured Ever Ready Safety Razor co. Ltd. 1914 model manufactured in Toronto. There aren’t many of these kicking around so I look forward to the shave! I will use a new PTFE GEM and the same Rubberset as yesterday, but I swapped in a mug of old Williams in honor of the American roots of the ER design and the founder of TOST, our very own Fuzzy Wchnu. Happy shaves!
And it almost hit frost here last night, so HOT Water!!! And as per the instructions, I will shave with JOY!
That is a very nice setup you have there. I find it hard to open my ER 1914. They have very strong springs. I love that box of Radio Blades you have. Those first SE blades did not have any cutouts in them. The ER has those little blade holders to prevent the blade from falling out during loading and unloading. Modern SE's with cutouts tend to fall out. I just put some Scotch tape over the cut outs and the problem is solved. SEptember is going to be fun. I am going to use my ER 1924 tomorrow.
The early blades from about 1908 up until WW1 (maybe later in 1919 with the big mergers) were all solid rectangles like these ER blades. Gem,Star, ER, everybody used them. Then it was American Safety Razor themselves that developed a blade that would keep their various razor lines competing against themselves. They created a cutout blade specifically so ER razors wouldn’t take them. ER wrangled that angle too. You can see in the instruction sheet they say other blades won’t fit their razors - they were referring to the new cutouts which pretty much everyone else started to use. ASR was successfully sued big time in the 1920s for essentially swindling folks with advertising claiming each of the razor lines was better than the other They had let the consumers land wherever they thought best. But each customer decision brought them back to ASR - they just didn’t realize. Early American ingenuity I suppose!
Rather than scotch tape I use a piece of plastic cut from a trading card protector sleeve and just slide it in with the blade. They last a long time. If you look closely you can see it mounted on the blade.
1924 eh? Well I can do that!
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Thursday's Cold Water Shave
Cold Water Rinse
Derby Shave Cream
Jayaruh #1 Silvertip Badger
Ever-Ready 1924
Personna GEM SS PTFE Blade
CWR
Humphrey's Witch Hazel
Pinaud Clubman
The Derby Shave Cream was face-lathered well with the Jayaruh #1 Silvertip Badger Brush. Two passes and touch ups with the Every-Ready 1914 and the Personna GEM SS PTFE Blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Pinaud Clubman After Shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...
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09-04-2025, 03:11 PM
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SEptember shave day.
1924 Ever Ready, Copper Hat badger, GEM blade, Amaretto Speciale tallow soap.
I really enjoyed the 1924 razor today. It has a very audible sound some describe as scraping toast. ER touted it as the ‘Singing Shave’ starting in the late 1920s when they introduced the chain link handle to the 1924 model.
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(09-04-2025, 03:11 PM)Rocketman Wrote: SEptember shave day.
1924 Ever Ready, Copper Hat badger, GEM blade, Amaretto Speciale tallow soap.
I really enjoyed the 1924 razor today. It has a very audible sound some describe as scraping toast. ER touted it as the ‘Singing Shave’ starting in the late 1920s when they introduced the chain link handle to the 1924 model.
Great ER24 shave today. Mine, too, was very audible. Truly a "Singing Razor."
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(09-04-2025, 05:58 PM)Jayaruh Wrote: Great ER24 shave today. Mine, too, was very audible. Truly a "Singing Razor."
SEptember! This started our day!!
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Friday's Cold Water Shave
Cold Water Rinse
Derby Shave Cream
Jayaruh #1 Silvertip Badger
GEM Damaskeene
Personna GEM SS PTFE Blade
CWR
Humphrey's Witch Hazel
Pinaud Clubman
The Derby Shave Cream was face-lathered well with the Jayaruh #1 Silvertip Badger Brush. Two passes and touch ups with the GEM Damaskeene and the Personna GEM SS PTFE Blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Pinaud Clubman After Shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...
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09-05-2025, 01:26 PM
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So, I'm travelling extremely light and even left the Streamline in Lviv. Brought my trusty Schick instead, along with minimal amounts of the Борода (Ukrainian for "beard") kit.
It's a beautiful summer day in Kyiv. If it were not for the odd air alert, you might think you're in any other large city in the civilised world. Oh, that, and the odd enemy tank or rocket repurposed as a pot for planting sunflowers. ?
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(09-05-2025, 01:26 PM)RobinK Wrote: So, I'm travelling extremely light and even left the Streamline in Lviv. Brought my trusty Schick instead, along with minimal amounts of the Борода (Ukrainian for "beard") kit.
It's a beautiful summer day in Kyiv. If it were not for the odd air alert, you might think you're in any other large city in the civilised world. Oh, that, and the odd enemy tank or rocket repurposed as a pot for planting sunflowers.
Hey Robin! Thanks for taking the time to post with us little shavers way over here. Your travels sure do bring you to places! I imagine you now more as an Arnie Schwarzenegger type, and certainly no travelling dandy.
Be safe, take care and Happy Shaving. And, that Boroda gear is quite interesting! For the bearded fella they have everything. Their concrete soap dishes are very cool too! I love the way the one drains out. Very clever. Take care.
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09-05-2025, 03:38 PM
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SEptember!!!
A terrific pick by Jayaruh today. The GEM Damaskeene is one of my favourites. (I guess there aren’t any antique/vintage SEs I don’t like!)
GEM Damaskeene with GEM PTFE, an awesome Thater badger I received through the kindness of the above poster - RobinK - thanks over and over Robin - and a big jar of SMASH to salute the Ukranian Flag!!
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This shave was a few days back, it was a wonderful shave with my Gem Damaskeene OC.
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