Feather Artist Club DX + extras = SOLD

February 9, 2020, 8:14 am

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Feather Artist Club DX in excellent+ condition. Includes the protective cap. I also have the original boxes for both.

As a freebie I’m also throwing in a nearly new bottle of Musgo Classic Aftershave Balm and a new/sealed Stirling Shampoo bar.

I will take $159 for everything pictured (for reference, the Razor sells for $239 new at Maggards). The balm is about a $40 value.

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Musgo AS Balm & Stirling Shampoo Bar = $20

February 9, 2020, 9:39 am

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The balm has been used twice. The shampoo bar is new/sealed

Only $20 takes both and I’ll cover shipping

WTB-Simpson brush label replacement

February 9, 2020, 10:15 am

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Would like to buy or trade for a Simpson replacement label/decal.
Simpsons sells them,for £ 12.00  ( $ 15.00 + shipping)  or so for 5.
Don't need 5 just one. If anyone has some spares or xtras?
Lots of soap and blades to trade
Thanks


Jonjo

ARCHIVE: Occam's Hiram SE

February 9, 2020, 10:29 am

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Selling a mint condition Hiram SE

$105 CONUS. (Current retail $255)

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FS: British #58 & Karve C & D SB Head

February 9, 2020, 10:55 am

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Good Day folks: Up for consideration today is a Super Clean British #58 and a set of Karve head set including Brass C & D including cap.



First up is a Cased British #58, one of the cleanest I have seen. The case is free of the usual spots and the razor matches. Much better than pictures, man isn't that a BST cliche'. But, literately I just went out to the sun light to review a description and other than on small water spot on a door and the same underneath. It sure is in another class compared to the one I am keeping. For those wondering about the loop, this is a 1955 case, the intro year, cased appropriate. Doors open evenly and completely, The case does have a cut inside top in liner. The yellow cast in pictures of the razor is not how it presents in hand. I don't know, but it looks like white gold to me....very pretty


Price for the #58 including professionally packed shipping to USA 50 $145.


Second is a set of Karve in matte brass C & D base plates with head. Retail $75 USD plus shipping from Canada on their web site. Price here shipped in box $53.


Please pm if I have a posting error, it has been a bit since I have sold.







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ARCHIVE: Creed OV soap

February 9, 2020, 11:08 am

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Selling a brand new, sealed Creed Original Vetiver soap

$62 CONUS

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WTS-charcoal goods copper lvl2 w/stinger

February 9, 2020, 12:05 pm

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I have a charcoal goods copper level 2 sb with stinger handle to sell. About 4 months old and in perfect condition. I've let it develop a patina and the pictures don't pick up the blues and purples. Can polish back to original finish or leave it as is depending on what buyer wants. Originally $290 plus shipping. Asking $250 shipped and insured conus. Might trade towards b5 or b6 as well.

FS: Enoch SE razor

February 9, 2020, 1:46 pm

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I'm paring down and selling my like-new Enoch SE razor - with box. Retails for $99 - selling for $79 shipped US.

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Surprise find at Winners - HomeSense

February 9, 2020, 9:56 pm

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I went to the local Winners - Homesense to buy a pan for the kitchen and ended up with these. I usually don't buy canned stuff, but lately, I have been short on time to shave my head and I figured the proraso would solve that problem. I get really good shaves from the musgo creams and I already have several in my soap/cream stash. But there were $10 each and I couldn't let them go. Its feels like the universe is saying to me, "Son, time to stop buying more soaps and creams and settle down with musgo for a while". 

Anyone use the Castelbel soaps before? These are 300g and I believe triple milled.

[WTS][WTT] Oumo SHD Fan 28mm Sandalwood + Resin Handle

February 10, 2020, 9:10 am

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Brush is in excellent condition, non-shedder. Comes with original packaging. Handle is made from a combination of sandalwood + acrylic resin. It has a 28mm manchuria SHD fan knot set at a 48mm loft for a good amount of backbone. Brush has been well cared for and has less than a hand full of uses on it. I've sterilized it with anti-bacterial soap.

Interested in a partial trade for an Omega Evo synthetic, especially the stone version. Open to other high-end synthetic brushes also.

Retail price with shipping is $90

Selling for $70 including shipping to the CONUS and military addresses.

Thanks for looking.

[WTS][WTT] Rick Montalvo (Wolf Whiskers' Father in Law) Synthetic Brush

February 10, 2020, 9:23 am

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Brush is in excellent condition. Has a 25mm timberwolf knot set at a 52mm loft.  

Would trade for an Omega Evo synthetic or other higher end synthetic brush.

Not interested in any soap nor aftershaves. 


Price: $43, includes shipping within CONUS and military addresses.

Cold River Oliva - lather is crazy good!

February 10, 2020, 11:00 am

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Maybe unworldly. Never have I had a lather that was more elastic like. Might be the slickest soap I've tried. 

Lathering Sebum Gold Soaps - A Method

February 10, 2020, 11:14 am

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Gents,

I have been asked a couple times how I am lathering my Sebum Gold Soaps.  I am no expert, but I am happy to share.  Thus far I have used Tonka, Blue, Red, Lime, Purple, and Gold.  

The best soap I have ever used is Tonka, and the second best is this Sebum Lime.  I just used Lime a little bit ago, and here is what I did.

I soaked a shavemac two band in a tea cup of distilled water, and I let it sit while I was in the shower.  In addition, I smeared some of the Sebum Lime soap in the bottom of my lather bowl, and I randomly put 10 drops on it with my syringe.  I also had that sit on top of the soap while I took a shower.  




Once I was done with the shower I removed the brush from the distilled water, and shook out all excess water.  I proceeded to lather until the soap was pastey.


I then added exactly 1ml of distilled water with the syringe, and went back to work until the soap was pastey.


I then added exactly 1ml of distilled water, and went back to work until the soap in the bowl was pastey.



Here is what the brush looked like at this step...pastey.



I then added exactly 1ml of distilled water, and went back to work until the soap was pastey.


Now we are starting to get somewhere!  I next added 1ml of distilled water, and went back to work until the soap was pastey and building up on the walls.

Next I added exactly 1ml of distilled water, and went back to work.  Once some nice lather was building up on the walls, I scraped my brush over the walls, and this was where I was at...it’s starting to look nice, and I was starting to get excited with what was hiding in the brush!



I next added 1ml of distilled water, and I went back to work swirling the brush around, pumping it up and down on the lather, and I figured that it was ready for a brush squeeze to see where I was at in the process.  Here is what was squeezed out of the brush.


Pretty awesome, but not yet perfect.  I again added exactly 1ml of distilled water, and went back to work swirling the brush around the bowl, whipping the lather, and pumping the brush.  I did this for a bit, and here are the final brush squeeze pictures.


I hope that helps some folks who might be having trouble lathering this soap.  This was plenty of lather for three passes, and a lengthy touch up pass where I was chasing the BBS with my extremely mild Gillette Super Speed razor.

I guess the main advice I have is to use distilled water, use a syringe, use patience, and have faith.  You will be rewarded!

Vr

Matt

FS. Blackland Sabre Lv1

February 10, 2020, 2:45 pm

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Sabre In perfect condition. Asking 100 euros delivered via  PayPal. 

retail price is 185 USD. 

Thanks for looking!

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Minimalism-Paladin, Brad Sears, Wolf Whiskers, etc

February 10, 2020, 5:26 pm

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Blame Maire Kondo or Minimalism, I have decided I can probably live with 9 shaving brushes.  Plus I would like to buy 1 or 2 more favorites.  


1. $140.  Paladin PK-47 Purple Haze, 26mm 2CLNB6.  Cost was $160 and a sentimental favorite.
2. $250.  Paladin PK-47 Ebonite Strawberry Fields, 26mm 2CLNA6.  NEW - never used.  Cost was $330
3. $105   Paladin PK-47 Disco, 26mm 2CSLH4.  Cost was $160
4. $110   Brad Sears Gus Amber and Coral(?), 28mm.  Cost was $180
5. $ 70   Wolf Whiskers WW-Eagle, RCE color, guessing 25mm, plush/less backbone.  Cost approx $85
6. $ 80   Alpha Titanium, FS new version synthetic. Recent ATG group buy.  Cost was $131
7. $ 40   Tony Forsyth synthetic, Rainbow Falls color, guessing 24mm knot, 62mm handle height.  Cost approx $100
8. $ 35   Mervyn Cadman $100 money brush, dark badger (some scritch).  Nice brush to re-knot.
Bonus:  $40 Grooming Dept and P&B soaps - new.  Cost approx $50 


Original owner on all brushes.  In rotation (16 or so brush rotation). Paladin Purple Haze and Wolf Whiskers purchased 2018 or so.  Others purchased in 2019.  The TF and Cadman purchased or gifted before but not in frequent rotation.


Should have original box.  Price includes domestic shipping.  More info available.  No trades at this time. Thanks for looking.

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Occam Safety Razor (COMPLETE SET)

February 10, 2020, 5:46 pm

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Got this razor set recently and prefer my Game Changer .84 and Rockwell 6s. This complete set goes for $110 and is on sale for $75 currently. Used but great shape. Please view photo's. I'm selling for $ 50 45 shipped in the Continental US and PayPal fees included. pm if interested.

The road not taken; Gillette's thin, rigid razor blade

February 10, 2020, 9:04 pm

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Razor blades - by which I mean the traditional double edged blade - is flexible. This is because it's made out of thin steel, even thinner now than when King Gillette first though them up.* But flexible blades needs a rigid holder - better known as a safety razor - and as we all know a razor costs money up front. Imagine how many more blades you could sell if the holder - the razor - was significantly cheaper?
This seems to have been the logic behind the patent that Alfred W Proctor filed on behalf of the Gillette Safety Razor Company in 1912. In the words of the patent text:

Quote:This invention relates to razor blades of a type now widely used and made of thin sheet steel, as distinguished from forged blades. The facility with which such blades can be manufactured because they do not require forging in order to bring them to shape and because many of the grinding processes incident to the production of a forged razor are unnecessary, has brought them into wide use. Blades made from such thin sheet steel, however, have an inherent flexibility which requires, or at least, makes it desirable to employ With them a holder which embodies a backing, this holder operating to support the blade and impart a certain degree of rigidity to the cutting edge. Such holders are however expensive to make and are undesirable for various reasons.

The holder that supports the blade and imparts a certain degree of rigidity to the blade that Mr Proctor refers to is - as all of you probably realises - the actual razor itself. Personally I cannot see the razor being undesirable for any reason, but it's certainly true that the double edged blade requires both a bottom plate and a top cap to hold the blade securely and to prevent the blade from vibrating and chatter.
So how did Mr Proctor plan to make the Gillette safety razor - which had been on the market for less than a decade when this patent was filed - obsolete? By making the blade stiff enough to do without the rigidity of the holder - ie.: the razor - much like a straight edge razor. Not by making the blade out of thicker materials, but making it thicker by putting ribs or ridges in it.

Quote:In order to impart the necessary or desirable rigidity referred to the blades will be given a configuration which affords such rigidity so that the blades because of their configuration are stiffened.

For the exact same reason that an I-beam is stiffer than a plate, a blade with ridges is stiffer than a blade without.** And if the blade is stiff and rigid, you can do without the complex holder - that is; the razor. And thus we end up with the invention shown in the patent drawing: A blade with ribs arranged to make it stiff both along it's length and breath, and a razor that was little more than some bent wire.

Quote:The blade may be used in a wire frame such as C which operates merely as a holder and does not impart any appreciable degree of support to the blade.

I think that when all is said and done we ought to be happy Gillette didn't go down this road, since we would have missed out on so many fun and wonderful razors in the last century.

*) For more details, see my old blog post on how old razors shaved back when new. The quick summary is that modern blades are half as stiff - or twice as flexible - as the original blades.
**) For the technical details, read up on Euler–Bernoulli beam theory, also known as engineer's beam theory or classical beam theory. The quick, oversimplified summary is that the taller the web (or the ridges, in the case of this patent) the stiffer the beam (in this case; blade).

FS- Yaqi Knight Helmet Head or with Handle

February 11, 2020, 6:36 am

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For sale is a Yaqi Knight Helmet head (DLC coated) which is aggressive. Optional is a Windrose (UK) stainless steel handle.

Yaqi Knight Helmet head only $12 with USA shipping included
Yaqi Knight Helmet head with handle with USA shipping included $30 
If you want just the handle send me a PM to discuss

Schick Blocked From Acquiring Harry's

February 11, 2020, 11:26 am

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Last May, Schick, the second largest producer of cartridge razors after Gillette, announced it was acquiring Harry's for 1.37 billion dollars.  Since their inception, Harry's and Dollar Shave Club have been cutting into Schick and Gillette sales with significantly less expensive cartridge razors sold by subscription.  The acquisition ran into trouble when the Federal Trade Commission sued to block it, alleging that it would result in less competition in the cartridge razor market. I just read in today's Wall Street Journal that Schick decided to give up its intended acquisition of Harry's, rather than fight the FTC's suit.  So, Harry's will remain an independent company.

Morris & Forndran Blonde Badger

February 11, 2020, 11:30 am

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Gentlemen,

We just received a text from Lee Sabini saying he has enough Blonde Badger to make ~12 knots. While supply lasts, you can order a bespoke Blonde Badger brush on this page.  Just select the Finest Badger option and specify "Blonde Badger" in the Comments section of the order form.