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If only someone made good 3 hole blades...

If only some1 made good 3 hole blades, like the old gillettes. I finially got, by accident, some old 3-hole blades.
They fit perfectly in the old types, you can actually "adjust" the razor, cause the blades provide much more flex, so when you unscrew it a bit, the parts are tight, they don't wobble. And I guess about 50% thicker.
Imagine a 3 holed, sharp, thicker DE blades, brand new...


Mmmmm:drool:
 
at one point i was thinking of trying to find an old blade machine and making 3 hold blades. In the teen and 20s there were hundreds of factories making Gillette style 3 hole blades. Some of those machines have to be still around somewhere...
 
at one point i was thinking of trying to find an old blade machine and making 3 hold blades. In the teen and 20s there were hundreds of factories making Gillette style 3 hole blades. Some of those machines have to be still around somewhere...

You might be in for a lifetime of searching, but like the Model T in a barn in the desert, or the original Frankenstein electrical props found in a garage, such miracles exist.

On the other hand, WWII scrap metal drives might have claimed them all.
 
at one point i was thinking of trying to find an old blade machine and making 3 hold blades. In the teen and 20s there were hundreds of factories making Gillette style 3 hole blades. Some of those machines have to be still around somewhere...

If you would, I'd buy stock in your company:biggrin:
 
at one point i was thinking of trying to find an old blade machine and making 3 hold blades. In the teen and 20s there were hundreds of factories making Gillette style 3 hole blades. Some of those machines have to be still around somewhere...

Some body should have them unless they were all victims of the metal scrap drives during WW2.
Gillette dumped theirs in Boston harbor.
 
Some body should have them unless they were all victims of the metal scrap drives during WW2.
Gillette dumped theirs in Boston harbor.

Okay, there may be a punch-line at the end of this, but I'll ask anyway. Why did Gillette dump them in Boston harbor?
 
Okay, there may be a punch-line at the end of this, but I'll ask anyway. Why did Gillette dump them in Boston harbor?

I have no idea, but that what I remember reading in the book about King Camp Gillette and the Gillette company.
I have the book buried somewhere.
They were a rather paranoid company, had a bunch of lawyers and were always suing other companies for violating their patents.
I imagine they didn't want anybody else to use their custom made machinery and dumping in the harbor was a proper way to dispose of trash at the time.
They used to dump nuclear waste in barrels off the coast of San Francisco.
 
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They used to dump nuclear waste in barrels off the coast of San Francisco.

This could very well explain my near-superhuman ability to get a BBS in one stroke using a month-old Derby blade and used motor oil. :lol:

And the high quality of Nancy Boy products. :thumbup1:
 
They used to dump nuclear waste in barrels off the coast of San Francisco.

I was on a nuclear-powered Navy ship in the late 80s. We could (and did) dump lots of nuclear waste in the ocean. Our only legal restrictions were that we had to be at least twelve miles from land, and we were to note in the ship's log the lat. and long. and how many gallons of nuke waste pumped out. I made several of those entries myself.
 
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