Jewell - they weren't kidding!

[skvinson]

I got this from a B&B'r. It is an Ever Ready. A "Jewell",I think. It is probably the nicest razor I have (out of 20 or so). The finish is great, and man, is it heavy! And WHAT a shave!!! After a wtg, then atg pass, I could have stopped and had a better shave than many other razors w. three passes and touchups. I did some touchups. Got a great shave. A little irritation. I'll chalk that up to me needing to become more familiar with it (though it definitely qualifies as 'aggressive'). This ranks up there w. my Hoffritz Slant. It will be a regular from now on.

FWIW, I used a Treet blade (1st shave with it).

 

[drews50]

Nice razor. The Gem model is a Jewel. Ever Ready made the Streamline. Looks great!

 

[skvinson]

Thanks! I knew someone here would know better than me. (It's still a "jewel" though!)

 

[drews50]

I've been waiting two weeks for mine to arrive from the UK. I think Royal Mail put it on a slow boat. I can't way to see and try it. I've heard a lot about them. Your experience reflects what I heard. Aggressive with a capital A, probably due to the weight. Thanks for posting your experience.

 

[skvinson]

I got mine from a member in England too. And yeah, I thought it would never get here.

 

[Pjotr]

I got mine from England on e-bay and it took a week! Couldn't belive it. They're great razors. Built like a tank. I had to look twice and swallow hard after I saw the amount of blade showing. Had one of the best shaves ever on a two day beard with a five shave blade. Haven't used it with a new blade yet!

 

[Pjotr]

........Aggressive with a capital A, probably due to the weight.......

I don't think it's the weight. Check it out when you've loaded the blade in yours. You can do the limbo through that blade gap. It's almost illegal!

 

[skvinson]

I don't think it's the weight. Check it out when you've loaded the blade in yours. You can do the limbo through that blade gap. It's almost illegal!

Agreed! I saw how much blade was showing too! The guy I got it from said to treat it like a straight razor shave!

 

[ShavinBacon]

The ER Streamline is my favorite razor. The right combination of aggressiveness and smoothness for me. A lot of people praise the OCMM but I like this better than my OCMM. The set I am currently using was NOS (or darn close) and I want to get some pics of it before I start using the strop system. I took it out of its plastic when I bought it but don't want to strop with it till I get it photographed.

 

[craig87c]

I'd love to get one of these! Especially if it's a better shave than my beloved OCMM, too. Probably the best looking SE razor, besides the GBar. As much as I love the OCMM for the shaves, the thing is just ugly as sin. The Streamline/Jewel is just purdy!

 

[Pjotr]

The ER Streamline is my favorite razor. The right combination of aggressiveness and smoothness for me. A lot of people praise the OCMM but I like this better than my OCMM. The set I am currently using was NOS (or darn close) and I want to get some pics of it before I start using the strop system. I took it out of its plastic when I bought it but don't want to strop with it till I get it photographed.

Did you buy that off the bay recently?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250779153307&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

How do you use the strop system on modern blades? Or am I missing something.

 

[skvinson]

No. I got this from a member in Britain though.

 

[spinyeel]

The old ymmv. I found this razor to be a good looker but a poor shaver.

 

[ShavinBacon]

Did you buy that off the bay recently?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250779153307&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

How do you use the strop system on modern blades? Or am I missing something.

The strop system is the same whether you are using vintage or modern blades. You slide the blade in the stropper machine from the side where it is held tightly. Then you slide the stropper machine onto the the leather strop with the blade facing you. When you push the stropper machine away from you up the strop, the blade is following it and getting deburred. When you are near the end of the strop, you pull it back toward you and the blade automatically flips over to the other side as you pull it back toward you. The only thing I have learned is not to do it too fast because you may end up pushing the blade back into the strop thereby cutting the leather. I have 3 sets of the streamline (2 with the the leather strop and 1 missing) and I can tell that the previous owner of my used set made that mistake a time or 2.

 

[drews50]

Is there any benefit stropping the new Feather blades or will it remove any coating it may have?

 

[sas71]

the handle looks just like the ones on a Segal

 

[Mr. Flay]

The Streamline is high on my wish list right now.

 

[ShaveMark]

the handle looks just like the ones on a Segal

I thought the same thing.

 

[ShavinBacon]

Is there any benefit stropping the new Feather blades or will it remove any coating it may have?

I haven't tried these blades yet but I will be honest and tell you that although I love SE shaving, I find any of the blades that I have tried so far harsh if I use them without stropping them first. I am currently hand stropping but all this talk about the streamlines just made me go dig out my others that I had stored and I think I am going to start using the old strop until I can get a pic of the new one before I use it.

I am a big fan of using what you have so probably sooner rather than later I am going to be selling off 2 of my razors. I have my NOS set that I use and I have an almost NOS razor that was sold by itself. I will get pics up soon. I know how we all like razor porn.

Interestingly enough if you guys didn't know, there are actually 2 versions of the ER streamline. I own both but the one I believe to be the oldest and the original is in poor shape (at least by my OCD standards--it shaves great). There are subtle differences between the 2 most notably in the holes in the blade bed. The holes on the older one are much larger that the newer version. There is one old thread on here that addresses it and had pics but I think it is from 2 years ago when I started getting into DE/SE shaving.

And now I have talked myself into trying to get pics. Let me see what I can do guys.


I have taken pics and made a separate thread detailing the differences in the streamline. I didn't want to hijack this thread. My apologies to the OP if I did.

 

[Dave Deluxe]

Shaved with a "Streamline" just this morning.

DD