Optic1
09-12-2007, 07:32 PM
Well, I've been shaving for about 40 years now. Father introduced me to a Remington Electric when I was started but I never took to it. Within a few months I remember switching to a DE (Gillette), brush and coffee mug style shave soap - no idea what brand. Once I discovered scents I switched to something in a wooden bowl - it may have been Canoon (SP?). Anyhow off to college (where I grew a beard) and then into the real world (where I had a barber shave off the beard) and back to the old DE.
By the late 70's & early 80's I was traveling a great deal for business and (probably for convenience) picked up a can of goo and some disposables and began to dislike my morning ritual. Not to mention getting poor shaves - so disposable on the road Wilkies and a Gillette butterfly at home (and a good rub with a Bloc Hyaline (sp?) from Caswell Massey (living in Manhattan at the time)). But somewhere about 1983 or so all the double edged blade packs seemed to vanish, probably sucked into the same Black Hole that came around a few years later and consumed all the IBM Selectrics in the country.
Sooooooo back to the wasteland of disposables until I got fed up, really looked around and discovered Merkur and all the goodies that have reappeared. Hooray!
Thanks for hosting a great forum!
By the late 70's & early 80's I was traveling a great deal for business and (probably for convenience) picked up a can of goo and some disposables and began to dislike my morning ritual. Not to mention getting poor shaves - so disposable on the road Wilkies and a Gillette butterfly at home (and a good rub with a Bloc Hyaline (sp?) from Caswell Massey (living in Manhattan at the time)). But somewhere about 1983 or so all the double edged blade packs seemed to vanish, probably sucked into the same Black Hole that came around a few years later and consumed all the IBM Selectrics in the country.
Sooooooo back to the wasteland of disposables until I got fed up, really looked around and discovered Merkur and all the goodies that have reappeared. Hooray!
Thanks for hosting a great forum!