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Post by stljeff on Nov 3, 2011 17:09:31 GMT -5
Share your shaving experience for the week with us!
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Post by stljeff on Nov 3, 2011 17:34:05 GMT -5
It's been a very long time since I've posted here, but here's my best recollection of what I've done this week:
Monday, 31 October
Gem MMOC
Gem SS/PFTE Blade (8)
Made-Rite 500 PB Brush
Euro Palmolive Cream
Dollar General Witch Hazel
Tuesday, 1 November
Gem MMOC
Gem SS/PFTE Blade (9)
Made-Rite 500 PB Brush
C.O. Bigelow Cream
Vi-Jon Swan Arctic Blue
Wednesday, 2 November
Gem MMOC
Gem SS/PFTE Blade (8)
Made-Rite 500 PB Brush
Euro Palmolive Cream
Barbasol Brisk
Thursday, 3 November
Gem Heavy Flat Top
Gem SS/PFTE Blade (1)
Made-Rite 500 PB Brush
C.O. Bigelow Cream
Vi-Jon Ivy Club Spice
The last entry here is precisely the reason why I decided to post today. I got the Heavy Flat Top (a.k.a G-bar) in the mail yesterday after winning it on E-bay. It was completely unused in a pristine plastic box with the original cardboard blade insert, instructions, and Gem Duridium blades in the white Push-Pak and still wrapped in (albeit tattered) cellophane. It cost me all of $9.19 shipped. I felt a bit guilty about shaving with it but it gave me a strange thrill to give the razor its maiden voyage some 60 years after it was made. I got a great close shave with it, maybe not quite as good as the MMOC that I've been using of late but close. I'll be using it exclusively for a while just to get more familiar with it. I'll have to say that with its weight and the little "foot" at the end of the handle, it feels more balanced in my hand than any other Gem. Right now I'm really liking it.
Interestingly, the instructions referred to this model as the "Slim-V Flat-Top". Does anyone know if that's yet another name for this razor?
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Jeff
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Post by wchnu on Nov 4, 2011 4:31:43 GMT -5
That is the first I have heard that name. I can't say I have seen a copy of the instructions before. Great information thanks.
Fuzzy
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Post by stljeff on Nov 6, 2011 11:03:50 GMT -5
Here's a couple more days of catch-up:
Friday, 4 November
Gem Heavy Flat Top
Gem SS/PFTE Blade (2)
Made-Rite 500 PB Brush
Euro Palmolive Cream
Barbasol Pacific Rush
Saturday, 5 November
Gem Heavy Flat Top
Gem SS/PFTE Blade (3)
Made-Rite 500 PB Brush
C.O. Bigelow Cream
Barbasol Pacific Rush
Sunday, 6 November
Gem Heavy Flat Top
Gem SS/PFTE Blade (4)
Made-Rite 500 PB Brush
Palmolive Shave Stick
Family Dollar Witch Hazel (glycerin added)
I had several more very comfortable shaves with the Heavy Flat-Top. The mystery surrounding the name "Slim-V Flat-Top" has thickened. I did a Google search on "Slim-V Flat-Top" and "Gem Razor" and found an advertisement in a Pittsburgh newspaper from 1955. The strange thing is that it identifies a razor that is very clearly a Featherweight as a "Slim-V Flat-Top" while the razor described as a "Slim-V Flat-Top" in the instructions accompanying my new Gem definitely looks like the Heavy Flat-Top (G-bar). Nowhere in the newspaper advertisement is the name "Featherweight" used although that's the only model of razor illustrated. Apparently the same name was used for two different (but admittedly similar) razors. Weird.
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Jeff
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Post by rocketman on Nov 6, 2011 18:07:44 GMT -5
"Slim-V Flat-Top". Very interesting story!!! Thanx for posting this!  |
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