Hello and happy new year!
I'm tobias tinker, a Canadian musician living in Germany and a fairly recent convert to DE shaving. While wet-shaving is not new to me, the wide wonderful world of DE razors and blades is a fairly recent discovery, and I'm the kind of person who *gets into things* when I get into them.
I'm posting here for the first time, after lurking for a while, to begin a little project I'm calling Around The World In 80 Blades (hence the handle). This is a way of documenting my personal journey and having a bit of fun with it. I am not trying to position myself as an expert reviewer, this is just my journey and my experience. It's meant to be fun, not authoritative.
Why 80 Blades?
As a jazz musician living in a rather small apartment with my family, I don't have the resources to build, nor the space to store, a large collection of razors, soaps, brushes and accoutrements.
But blades? Blades are small, and cheap, and yes, there's a wondrous assortment of them on the market, from all over the world.
So I thought, why not take a trip around the world, from the comfort of my bathroom sink? And explore a bit of the history and culture around this stuff along the way? I have so much to learn...
And then of course as soon as my brain made the connection with the classic Jules Verne novel (Around the World in 80 Days), and it didn't seem like 500 people had already done it, I knew I had to make the commitment. I will not be doing this in 80 days, of course; more likely 80 weeks in fact (I plan to use each blade for at least a week or so). But I'll do my best to stick with it for at least one time around the globe, with stops in all the places blades are made, or at least as many as I can find!
So today, to ring in a new year, I will set off on my journey. And I will start with a blade from where I live, in Germany - but also where my shaving journey began: with the ubiquitous Wilkinson Sword blade. The first DE blade I ever used, many years ago in Canada before cartridges swept the shaving world, and the first I tried when, more recently, I decided to abandon that grievous folly and embrace traditional safety-razor shaving again.
So, onwards and upwards... I'll post the reviews in Blade Reviews, where you can find more nerdy details about my rather modest setup and very limited experience, in case anyone's interested... otherwise, have a great day and, hopefully, a better year than the last two!
I'm tobias tinker, a Canadian musician living in Germany and a fairly recent convert to DE shaving. While wet-shaving is not new to me, the wide wonderful world of DE razors and blades is a fairly recent discovery, and I'm the kind of person who *gets into things* when I get into them.
I'm posting here for the first time, after lurking for a while, to begin a little project I'm calling Around The World In 80 Blades (hence the handle). This is a way of documenting my personal journey and having a bit of fun with it. I am not trying to position myself as an expert reviewer, this is just my journey and my experience. It's meant to be fun, not authoritative.
Why 80 Blades?
As a jazz musician living in a rather small apartment with my family, I don't have the resources to build, nor the space to store, a large collection of razors, soaps, brushes and accoutrements.
But blades? Blades are small, and cheap, and yes, there's a wondrous assortment of them on the market, from all over the world.
So I thought, why not take a trip around the world, from the comfort of my bathroom sink? And explore a bit of the history and culture around this stuff along the way? I have so much to learn...
And then of course as soon as my brain made the connection with the classic Jules Verne novel (Around the World in 80 Days), and it didn't seem like 500 people had already done it, I knew I had to make the commitment. I will not be doing this in 80 days, of course; more likely 80 weeks in fact (I plan to use each blade for at least a week or so). But I'll do my best to stick with it for at least one time around the globe, with stops in all the places blades are made, or at least as many as I can find!
So today, to ring in a new year, I will set off on my journey. And I will start with a blade from where I live, in Germany - but also where my shaving journey began: with the ubiquitous Wilkinson Sword blade. The first DE blade I ever used, many years ago in Canada before cartridges swept the shaving world, and the first I tried when, more recently, I decided to abandon that grievous folly and embrace traditional safety-razor shaving again.
So, onwards and upwards... I'll post the reviews in Blade Reviews, where you can find more nerdy details about my rather modest setup and very limited experience, in case anyone's interested... otherwise, have a great day and, hopefully, a better year than the last two!
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