Wed 23rd Jan
PAA Starling SE-Gem with Standard & Open Comb Plates. From USA - UK in 9 days. Soap arrived at same time.
PAA Starling SE-Gem with Standard & Open Comb Plates. From USA - UK in 9 days. Soap arrived at same time.
Single Edge Razor Acquisition Thread.
- Thread starter BigFoot
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Great razors, I love the yellow handle. Plus I love Krona’s. Congratulations.Got an easy rider injector
I went out to some local antique stores looking for an "M" type adjustable and ran across this. I already have a type G but I couldn't pass this up.
Very nice, congratulations.
That's a great find. I have a Gem Micromatic Open Comb with a similar case. Dose that one have the blade banks for new and used blades?
Sweet! I have yet to find any British SEs, much less one in such a nice case. Congrats!!
Actually, no - and it doesn't appear to have ever had them. Maybe this was the "Standard" model and the other is "Deluxe"
Very nice score either way. Thanks for the extra pictures.
I really like the handle on that razor BTW.
Technically not a recent find, because I took possession of the components last April.
I had just gotten 5 DEs from a vendor at a flea market, with no interest in Schick Injectors. A few tables later i ask another vendor if he had any DEs. "No", he said, but brought out this Type G. The tag had some silly low price on it so I thought, okay, what the heck. As he handed it to me for inspection it the handle fell off. So, he sez "aw just take it".
Not only was the handle broken, but the head was bent back by about 15º (between spring and handle), and the spring was turned around to the left. I don't think that model is supposed to do that, right?
It looked to me like someone tried to get the old blade out (was still in it) without a magazine key. I was not familiar with Schick injectors so I just put the pieces in a Tupperware container and forgot all about it.
More recently though, I've been having some success with a Lady Eversharp and was quite impressed with the Schick injector system, so I thought about maybe trying to repair the Type G.
First I bent things back into shape and then duct taped the head to a ball-end handle from my Long-Comb New. I originally tried it with the RazoRock Barberpole handle, and that was a very slightly snugger fit, but it was too heavy. The taped-on ball-end handle was good enough for one shave just to see if the head was salvageable.
Behold . . . The Frankenjector!
Don't laugh, it worked.
It gave me a closer shave than the Lady Eversharp.
I think I will try to epoxy the Type G back together, and put it in rotation.
I had just gotten 5 DEs from a vendor at a flea market, with no interest in Schick Injectors. A few tables later i ask another vendor if he had any DEs. "No", he said, but brought out this Type G. The tag had some silly low price on it so I thought, okay, what the heck. As he handed it to me for inspection it the handle fell off. So, he sez "aw just take it".
Not only was the handle broken, but the head was bent back by about 15º (between spring and handle), and the spring was turned around to the left. I don't think that model is supposed to do that, right?
It looked to me like someone tried to get the old blade out (was still in it) without a magazine key. I was not familiar with Schick injectors so I just put the pieces in a Tupperware container and forgot all about it.
More recently though, I've been having some success with a Lady Eversharp and was quite impressed with the Schick injector system, so I thought about maybe trying to repair the Type G.
First I bent things back into shape and then duct taped the head to a ball-end handle from my Long-Comb New. I originally tried it with the RazoRock Barberpole handle, and that was a very slightly snugger fit, but it was too heavy. The taped-on ball-end handle was good enough for one shave just to see if the head was salvageable.
Behold . . . The Frankenjector!
Don't laugh, it worked.
It gave me a closer shave than the Lady Eversharp.I think I will try to epoxy the Type G back together, and put it in rotation.
Well done. Most people would have thrown it away, but you did make it usable.
Posted elsewhere too but thought I'd share here
Posted elsewhere too but thought I'd share here
Good catch. I don't think it gets more mint than that.
Here is today's antique store SE purchase.
I need to do some searching to figure out exactly which schick I got bit I'm happy I got one. Razor mug andbrush all came together for $8.50 plus tax. Not sure if the brush is blonde horse or boar hair.
I need to do some searching to figure out exactly which schick I got bit I'm happy I got one. Razor mug andbrush all came together for $8.50 plus tax. Not sure if the brush is blonde horse or boar hair.
E3 or E4:
E (handle without seam) and 3 (parallel grooves and spring side flaps) or 4 (parallel grooves and no side flaps for spring).
Hopefully some one will correct me if I am mistaken! Just learning this as I picked up a couple E2s.
I think it may be a G model as it has 2 patents stamped on the handle. Like you, I also stand to be correct if wrong. Either way, a great shaver. Enjoy.
