Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:49:48 -0700, the infamous Winston
scrawled the following:


On 3/29/2010 5:44 AM, Terry wrote:

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:36:45 -0700,
wrote:


As a yout, I was getting only 2-3 shaves per Trac II cartridge even
with aggressive rinsing. I ran a lot of water down the vents in
the back of the cartridge, too. On inspection, I found that the 'vents'
were completely blind and without function. I also found
that the cartridge was loading up very quickly; the clogged shavings were
holding the blade off my skin! I now clean my razor in an ultrasonic
bath every day and average 7 shaves per blade.

Schick makes a two-blade razor with a push-thingy (technical term :-))
that lets you push the bits of beard out from between the blades.
Works a treat.
--
Terry

I'm happy with my buzz-thingamabob.


Ditto my Norelco buzz-thingamabob. I spend 30 seconds shaving each
morning. I don't have much of a bushy face, though.

I think I quit with the straight razor because it took so long, but
that was decades ago and I had very little fur then, too.

I hadn't noticed until recently that the "straight razor" my barber uses
on the back of my neck near the end of a haircut visit isn't what I
remember from the olde daze, it looks the same from a distance, but it
has replaceable blades which slide into a metal spine. No more do I see
the barbers stropping with a flair.

(Anybody here remember when a "singe" was a fairly standard part of a
man's haircut. The barber would lift up bunches of your hair with a comb
while using the flame from a skinny taper (candle) to burn off any split
ends.)

I started shaving about 60 years ago using a "safety razor" and double
edged Gillette "Blue Blades" until the first Wilkenson Sword stainless
steel blades landed on this side of the pond in limited quantities. I
remember how guys scurried to obtain them so they could proudly claim to
be one of the first using them.

Back then there was info being bandied around that you could "hone" the
edges of those double edged safety razor blades by sweeping them around
the curved inner surface of a drinking glass. I tried it a couple of
times but never noticed any improvement.

Thanks for the mammaries,

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight.

--
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
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