Thanks to wbw0126 (Will), I became the owner of a 1940s Super Speed (in very nice condition) and a very nice sampling of blades. This morning, for the first time since Gillette Excels hit the market, I returned to DE shaving! I used the SS and a Derby blade, went through my usual prep, and with some trepedation started. (The trepedation was because about a month ago I made one short pass with my Dad's 1912 Ever-Ready - thought I killed myself!) At any rate, I took my time and went with no pressure. Shaved my normal two passes plus touchup. Turned out okay with only one small weeper. About as smooth as I normally get with my Excel. However, it FEELS better! The aftershave splash went on with a little more burning, but it feels like I have SHAVED! Not sure it makes sense, but it is gratifying! Thanks, John
After Twenty-Five Years!
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Welcome back.
I'm curious... what have you been using recently? I mean, you've been on B&B well over a year. If you've been using a cartridge... You must have seriously thick skin.
I'm curious... what have you been using recently? I mean, you've been on B&B well over a year. If you've been using a cartridge... You must have seriously thick skin.
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Have been using a Sensor Excel. Started using that when I couldn't find DE supplies or Schick auto-dispenser cartridges (forgotten the exact name of them) in the commissary anymore. Sensor gives a very nice shave without nicks and bleeding, but Badger & Blade just made me want to try a DE again. Only reason I have held off this long is that I didn't see a reason to stop using what seemed like a perfectly good razor. However, the Ever-Ready opened my eyes despite the blood! I am still feeling the tingle in my skin after shaving with the SS about an hour and a half ago; it just feels good! At least so far!! Not throwing out my Sensor stuff until I have used the SS a good deal more, though.
Congratulations on a nice start--hope the shaves keep getting better and better!
welcome back 
the shaves will get better and better just do what you did no pressure !!!
the shaves will get better and better just do what you did no pressure !!!
Looking into my crystal ball, I see the cartridge shaving equipment vanishing, to be replaced by real shaving equipment... 
I think your crystal ball needs cleaning.
Hey, John, what PX are you using? The two exchanges I visit, Ft. Lewis and NS Everett, both stock DE blades, and the Ft. Lewis one has ASR Schick injector blades, eleven for $2.49.
Hey, John, what PX are you using? The two exchanges I visit, Ft. Lewis and NS Everett, both stock DE blades, and the Ft. Lewis one has ASR Schick injector blades, eleven for $2.49.
Welcome, John! Nice work.
John,
I think I might be in about the same boat as you were. I started shaving about 50 years ago with a DE (of course, that was about all there was at the time.). I had a Gillette (don't know model) and then a Gillette adjustable. My dad used an electric back then. When I tried it, it only make my face hurt.
My next razor was a Gillette with a ribbon blade in a cartridge. I have been unsuccessful in finding anything on line about it. There was a lever that moved the ribbon blade to expose a new, unused portion of the blade. I tried a Schick injector razor that was issued to me when I went to Army basic training in 1964, but found it gave a poor shave and nicked me, too.
From there I just bought whatever Gillette came out with, finding each new one better than the next until Fusion. That five blade job is not better, and in some ways worse, than the Mach 3 - which is what I use today.
Now that I have been reading the posts here, I am thinking of trying a DE again.
I think I might be in about the same boat as you were. I started shaving about 50 years ago with a DE (of course, that was about all there was at the time.). I had a Gillette (don't know model) and then a Gillette adjustable. My dad used an electric back then. When I tried it, it only make my face hurt.
My next razor was a Gillette with a ribbon blade in a cartridge. I have been unsuccessful in finding anything on line about it. There was a lever that moved the ribbon blade to expose a new, unused portion of the blade. I tried a Schick injector razor that was issued to me when I went to Army basic training in 1964, but found it gave a poor shave and nicked me, too.
From there I just bought whatever Gillette came out with, finding each new one better than the next until Fusion. That five blade job is not better, and in some ways worse, than the Mach 3 - which is what I use today.
Now that I have been reading the posts here, I am thinking of trying a DE again.
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I go the the Commissary and the AAFES Exchange at Offutt AFB, which is nearby. Up until a couple months ago both carried a plain-jane DE blade, but neither do now. SE blades are in the hardware department when they have them. I was amused last week that, now with all the DE blades gone, I bought the exchange's very last styptic pencil! Guess they don't need them anymore!! Think the commissary carries one line of Trac II, one line of Atra, and then Sensor and on up in blade count. Same with the exchange.
Oh, BlackBard, think the "ribbon thing" you had is what I had, and it was a Schick.
Oh, BlackBard, think the "ribbon thing" you had is what I had, and it was a Schick.
The gillette ribbon one was a techmatic
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Then I am in error. My apologies. Thought it was a Schick. John
Schick made one, too. In fact, I was scouting for stuff in Pacific Beach, WA and found a replacement cartridge for the Schick, NOS hanging on a display.
John, you might talk to the exchange manager about bringing something in.
John, you might talk to the exchange manager about bringing something in.
Techmatic,
Now I remember. Thanks.
Now I remember. Thanks.
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TopGumby, appreciate the idea, but don't think manager would have access to anything, variety-wise, that one can get on the net. And I seriously doubt at this point that there would be much demand; but one never knows. Look what has happened to me!!
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