For 10+ years I’ve used a Trac 2 razor, and I’ve used Schick blades that had a push button gizmo that would push the gunk out between the 2 blades. This device was chincy, but it worked well, keeping the area between the twin blades makes for a much more comfortable shave. Also, the Schick blades were only $2.68 for 10. For me that’s 40 shaves!
But all of a sudden I couldn’t find those blade cartridges anywhere. I even went on Schicks web site and they weren’t there! So I was forced to buy the regular twin blade that doesn’t have the push button cleaner. Well, with my heavy beard those twin blades kept getting gunked up and screwing up the closeness of the shave. I’m forced to bang the head on the sink after every strong just to clean that gunk out.
So, now I say screw it! I’m going back to a single blade razor. I used one before I went to the Track 2, and a pack of 10 dual sided single blades is only$1.19. One problem: I can find the blades, but I can’t find the handles they fit in. I’ve looked everywhere. I have no idea where my old one is (probably threw it away). Can anyone help out. And why the heck do several companies make single blades, but not the handles. Duh?
Are you talking about the “safety razor” (as I think they were called) that has the two-sided blade? The top opens up and you put the blade in, then close it?
I picked one of those up for my dad as a Father’s Day present sometime in the 1990s at a knife store in a mall. German-made. I think it’s a Braun. Dad died and my BIL nearly threw it out saying, “Look at the antique!” I took it and have used it a few times.
Hey, that Merkur safety razor on http://www.col-conk.com/safety.htm (the bage Duck Duck Goose linked) – the last one on the right in the fourth photo from the top – looks like the one I bought my dad and which I now own.
I actually bought a safety razor last year. (The old one got thrown out without my prior permission.) Got it at a regular chain drug store here in Atlanta, maybe CVS.
A Gillette model. Unfortunately the whole handle has to be turned to open it. On my old one you just had to turn the end-that was much easier.
Your old one was a newer model. We thought that was the nuts when it came out. Back then there were all kinds of ads on TV for razor blades, today they take us for granted.
hey my grand dad used to use one of those in HK a while ago
he had the same problem , thing is its more profitable for
the newer disposable more gunky type
heh , they make diamond edge blades that stay sharp but get forever gunked up
try a cut throat razor they are dangerous but oh so close
and often they stay sharp forever
I assume you mean the disposable kind?
I have here a bag of BIC Original disposable shavers…
single blade razors I got at the local supermarket…
a bag of 12 for less than $5.
The drug store ones are P’sOS–plastic handles, not adjustable, you have to remove the blade to clean them. I’ve found 6 or 8 of them at flea markets in the “junk” cases (I like 'em so I buy 'em when I see a nice one). I’ve found some great nickel-plated Gillettes with the adjustable cutting angle for about 5 bucks. The ones I looked at in the cutlery stores costs $35, and weren’t anywhere near as cool. I’ve found a few caches of excellent blades at antique stores as well, Hey! What about e-bay–I’ll check…103 items, mostly blades. Looks like some nice ones from the fifties for under $5, they’re not collectable, but they work better than the earlier ones. They are sharper and last longer.
