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What is your favorite Gillette NEW?
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Here is my latest NEW. A very nice Cambridge set. Looks like one of those transition type pieces from Gillette. Appears to be unused.[/QUOTE
Beautiful razor !!!
I'm not familiar with the Cambridge ,when you say it is a transition ,what is the transition to or from. Looks like a short comb and the handle appears thicker than the normal bar handle? The case is from the US ? and the razor is it also Made in the USA ?
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Transition as in it appears Gillette cobbled this set together from a left over case IMO. Almost like the Big Boy Hybrid (some of the case headliners say Big Fellow; etc.). The case and name appeared pre-NEW as a French export w/ a single ring. This shipper, case, and razor are all exclusively Made in USA. The bar handle is somewhat unique in that it appears to have the small circumference neck. It is a short comb. There are only a handful of examples out there that I can find.
It is good to see my razors on the forum recently check my post again. They are very good shavers, they have no cracking habit like Criterion.So have I - left 3-piece, right 2-piece:
Gillette British No. 81 Variations
I have had two identical New LC razors in a drawer for about eight years and hadn’t tried one until two weeks ago. So I loaded one with a Personna Lab Blue and shaved. I was shocked. I’ve been shaving for more than 50 years and have a lot of hours behind a DE and I’ve never had a shave like that. My only disappointment was that I had just bought a new DE89 the week before. I think I’m going have to have one replated. Any razor that shaves that well deserves a new suit of clothes. I suppose I am a GNU. Too bad it took so long. I don’t know what iteration of the New these are but here are photos of one.
Hard to tell from the angle but it looks like a long comb.
It’s a long comb. Funny thing is the common bar handle. The flat shoulder is generally associated with the NEW Deluxe.
That common bar handle is extremely common on the NEW. They are all over the bay. I have a long comb and a short comb and both came with the common bar handle.
Hm, good question.
Probably this rhodium plated SC:
Although this flat-bottomed (New Improved? New Deluxe?) with the Harbor Freight handle is a fave:
Though I'd reccomend avoiding this corner-tooth-missing bloodthirsty Great Dictator:
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Probably this rhodium plated SC:
Although this flat-bottomed (New Improved? New Deluxe?) with the Harbor Freight handle is a fave:
Though I'd reccomend avoiding this corner-tooth-missing bloodthirsty Great Dictator:
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Thanks! Those two always confuse me. (15 or 17mm?)
I have a silver Tuckaway too, but it's not a favorite. Thing bites me for some reason.
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Yours looks like a 17
nublearblast's pic
And that is a good thing. Otherwise I would be forced to try and trick you into selling.
I used to think like Hoka Hey... but in the end I've got both handles in my DeLuxe razors, 15 and 17 mm. So...
I believe Hoka Hey is talking about the shoulders.
The second handle in this picture from xillion shows the flat shoulders, right next to it handle 3 shows the most common common bar.
Yep, it was the shoulder I was commenting on. I only have one common bar handle with the flat shoulder, ala the New Deluxe. I’ve been yelled at (not really!) for displaying a NEW Deluxe with a round shoulder common bar handle.
I can’t say I’ve come across a long comb or short comb NEW with the flat shoulder common bar handle. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Same era, and Gillette is famous for confusing us with odd combos.
I had the impression that handle 4 was the most common common bar...
That just goes to show you what an idiot I am. I didn’t even notice the flat shoulder.
I would tend to agree that #4 is the most common common bar.
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