A beginner’s guide to traditional shaving kit
Firstly a disclaimer, the variety of traditional shaving kit on sale is so vast that the choices are effectively infinite. And because you are different to the next man so […]
Gillette Red Tip
Yet more on the three razor method
Firstly a quick recap. Like many I shave with three passes, with the three razor method I select a razor for each pass that is optimised for the job. This, […]
The 1940s Gillette Super Speeds. My birth razor
I have written on here before about the Gillette Super Speed razors, but mainly the Flare Tip version that was available from 1954 to 1966 and its short lived Red […]
Your birth razor, the Gillette razor dating system
This is something rather nice that you can do with traditional, real shaving. Gillette have been the dominant manufacturer of shaving equipment on planet earth for about a century. During […]
Gillette Super Speed advertisement
The above is a lovely advert for the three Gillette Super Speed models that existed in production alongside each other during the mid to late 1950s. I will now try […]
Brushless shaving cream
In an earlier article I explained how I bought some brushless shaving cream at T K Maxx, due to my own stupidity and lack of attention. Well, when you have […]
Shave of the day
One of the features of the real shaving community is people posting to forums saying what they had used for their shave that day. Now, these are interesting in that […]
My new razors in the post today
I just opened a parcel from Los Alamos, New Mexico and in it are two fantastic, classical Gillette razors to add to my collection. These Gillette razors are fantastically engineered […]