So stoked, found another lather catcher

[kcb5150]

After the bitter disappointment of not being able to get that star lather catcher I found sorted out after looking around forever for any sort of lc in the wild, I found another one, and this time it is pristine! Ever-ready. Stropper is still in handle. These pics are pre clean up (apart from the blade pic). It looks brand new and is seriously cool. Handle is way too tiny for my hands and the whole thing is light as hell, but I don't care. I finally get to try a proper lather catcher.

(some soap residue/polish on the retainers I had to buff off). It looks dangerous and AWESOME (I'm sure it isn't as the spring tab on this is so strong and the clips are great). Blue star, because I think it is only right to let it have a go with a carbon. Awesome turning on the way too tiny handle. Hacking beard off later!

 

[Kilroy6644]

Very cool. My RAD has mostly burned out, but there's a couple of coals still glowing, and a lather catcher's one of them. I'd love to find one of those.

 

[kcb5150]

The one I am really on the lookout for is the junior bar with the cradle that flips over and the tab with the turned wooden handle. That is what immediately pops into my mind when I think of LC. One day. This is a very pretty razor in person.

 

[Sled Dog]

Nice score, congrats!!
If there is a threaded hole in the bottom of the handle, that is a stropping attachment. It may be hard to remove due to corrosion.

Heres a little eye candy for your RAD

 

[kcb5150]

No, the strop bit comes right out. It is shiny and clean for the most part inside. Yep, that's the daddy, the coolest lather catcher of them all.

 

[kcb5150]

I'm impressed by the quality of your case. Just tremendous preservation/retention of color. You should see if you can find the 7 blades to garnish that thing.

 

[kcb5150]

Being that I am from NYC and live in the home of the gem razor, it annoys me that I'm not tripping over these in the wild. Many gems to be had in general, though.

 

[dcobranchi]

Very nice razor. I love my lather catchers, as you can probably tell based on my signature line. Just a fun (and LOUD) shave.

 

[kcb5150]

Just gave this a spin on three days growth, some observations: This thing is an incredibly good shaver. It is more aggressive than an OCMM. It is so light you have to feed in some forward movement with your hand. It is the loudest razor I've ever used by a fair stretch. It's even louder than a 1924. A fresh Blue Star is sharper than any ss Gem blade I've come across. It is also dead and gone after one shave for me. I nicked my left nostril somehow despite the blade edge not having gone anywhere near the thing. The only hairy things I found about using it besides having to apply some "go" to the razor is that you don't really have a good idea of the angle the blade is going to come into contact with your face till it is. That and the handle is way too small.... And slippery.... But it got the trouble zones smooth that no other razor but the ocmm will and got them even smoother with less work. Not for novices. Aggression wise it is to an ocmm what an ocmm is to a 1912. Someone careless would rip themselves to ribbons. Oh, and the handle collects water, which i guess is why ceased up stropping attachments were mentioned in the thread.

 

[RocketMan]

Nice score, congrats!!
If there is a threaded hole in the bottom of the handle, that is a stropping attachment. It may be hard to remove due to corrosion.

Heres a little eye candy for your RAD

Just needed another peek!

 

[taco8slo]

Very nice! Here is my lather catcher, the Gem Junior Bar, gives smooth shaves, comparable to the Damaskeene.

 

[kcb5150]

I'm giving this another go later. I kind of wish I didn't go with the carbons because it reminded me how much nicer they were on my skin than the ss.

 

[kcb5150]

If anything, the second shave was better... Even with the second blue star feeling a bit inferior to the initial one I used, No irritation, and it got the spots most se and de never manage to 100%. Once you get used to how much extra weight you need to feed into the blade with your hand, you can whip it around with relative abandon. It'd be an awful razor for a se beginner though as you kind of have to do the opposite of almost everything every other se demands. Apart from that, and the fact that the pretty spiral knurled handle is teeny and wretchedly slippery, it is absolutely tremendous.

 

[stvince71]

Very nice! Here is my lather catcher, the Gem Junior Bar, gives smooth shaves, comparable to the Damaskeene.

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Nice Jr Bar. Some day I will own one. Oh yes, it will be mine...

 

[kcb5150]

I've been using only this since I bought it. It's just great. The lather catcher design may make a razor more vulnerable to bend/crush damage I gather, but it sure does work as intended... Once you get the touch fine tuned, it is remarkable how much control you have when the blade isn't covered with the standard SE flap. On my longest streak of no nicks or burn ever. And Blue Stars are just tremendous when you get a good one.

 

[kcb5150]

Oh, and I switched soap to Cella in the red tub from the proraso sandal and arko I have been using lately. Razor didn't punish me, if anything it got easier as the cella has so much glide.

 

[plpenn]

Great looking razors guys!! Lather catchers are the last razors I lust after. I have come close to geting a few but I keep coming up short.

 

[Lothar101]

I want one too

 

[rxonmymind]

I saw one at an antique fair once. Don't know why I didn't pick it up. Came wifh a wooden handle to.

 

[savagejoerude]

I Love my J-Bar... By far the coolest looking razor I own. And it shaves smooth as silk... Mine was generously PIF'ed to me by Brian Krampert. Turned me into a LOSER. I haven't shaved with a DE since and the way it's going probably never will...