Custom horse shaving brush
Regular readers here will know that I have a penchant for horse hair shaving brushes. Once most brushes were made of this hair, until there was an anthrax scare (which […]
February 2011
How big is yours?
There is a current fashion for ridiculously large wrist watches, you are not a real man without half a pound of steel strapped to your wrist, yet I remember when […]
Announcement about this blog
Now there are nearly 200 articles on here about traditional shaving it represents a considerable body of work. Easily as much as a book would contain. If you use the […]
Fake Iridium blades
The Pogonotomy forum member mitsimonsta posted these pictures (and more) to the forum so that members could identify the fake Iridium razor blades that are currently being distributed and sold […]
Gillette don’t want to talk to me
Gillette make fantastic double edged (DE) razor blades at the Petersburg Products International (PPI) factory in Russia that they (or their parent Procter & Gamble) 65% own. But Gillette also […]
The Marketing Powerhouse that was and still is the Gillette Safety Razor Company, part 4
Here is the fourth in this fascinating series of articles by Matt Pisarcik of Razor Emporium: The One-Piece Razor The NEW razor was short lived and made way for the […]