I have been working on gathering together my knowledge of shaving, and turning it into a book. The timing to release such a book now seems very good. In the magazine “D2” on 28 December, there was an 8-page article about straight razor shaving 🙂 Read More →
Gillette — still the best a man can get?
Today I shaved with a brand new “Gillette Fusion Proglide”!
Yes, you read correctly. Today I purchased one of the latest “multiblade plastic razors” from Gillette.
I think that one can quickly become a little “religious” when one are really excited about something. But I would rather not reject something that is working, just because I have chosen a different solution. So i went to the store to buy a multi-blade razor.
Try an oil shave
Have you ever tried to shave with just oil? I recommend trying it.
After reading a bit about this, I decided to try it. You can get many types of special “shave oils” for this, but the fact is that regular olive oil works just as fine. Read More →
Not only straight razors
Lately my focus have revolved mostly about straight razors, but I’m still enthusiastic about DE (and SE)-razors 🙂
Here is a video where I use an old “Aristocrat No58 ‘from Gillette. This is a “Coronation Issue” – a version that was introduced to Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, It is very gentle and gives a comfortable shave. Read More →
Making a new edge
Yesterday I finally received the “duble duck” straight razor I bought on ebay. Duble duck are by manny considered as one of the best straight razors. I set about cleaning it, and the knife was getting quite as nice. So the next step was to polish the blade. I use a hand-held sander for this. There was no rust on the blade, so I went straight to the polishing. Then an accident happened: The small iron rod that the polishing head sits on, hit the edge of the blade. The result was a notch in the edge! I decided to try to grind off the edge. To remove the notch, I had to remove a couple of millimeters of steel. Read More →
The ultimate razor?
A few days ago i got a “new” razor. It is a Gillette Slim adjustable from 1962 that I found on ebay.
This model has the same adjustment function for blade angle as the famous “fatboy”, by many considered the best Gillette razor. But this one has a little longer and slimmer shaft than the aforementioned “fatboy”, which gives a very good balance. Read More →
Read the label
Have you ever felt cheated by companies selling you lots of packaging and less content?
Have you, like me, felt a bit of disappointment when having purchased a huge bag of potato chips from the store, only to see that it is barely half full when you open it? Or getting annoyed by the cardboard boxes and other unnecessary packaging that hides how little product there actually is the package? It seems that more and more manufacturers sell more packaging than product. Read More →
New demo video
This is a video I made a while ago, where I demonstrate razor shave with an old knife, possibly from the early 1900’s. The knife I use is a “D. Peres Best Barrel Brand, No. 12 C “. Read More →
About shaving brushes
A few words about shaving brushes:
There are basically three main types of bristles in shaving brushes:
1. Badger hair
2. Boar bristles
3. Synthetic bristles/hair
In addition, there are also brushes made with horsehair. Read More →
Exciting video of man shaving with obsidian
Man have shaved at all times. There are many examples of razors from antiquity, and earlier. On this website you can see a picture of a razor made of bronze, from Egypt, 1405-1367 BCE: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/objects/display.aspx?id=92135 Read More →