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  1. Ferrum

    Novel use for MWF

    Thanks. Leaves a big gap after 54 years together.
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    Novel use for MWF

    I have grown a beard at various times, but for many recent years have propagated just a large moustache, with a daily shave of the rest, as I'm not a fan of "designer stubble". In my reckoning, a worthwhile beard is one that reaches my top shirt collar button as a minimum. My wife died last...
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    "The" shaving shop in London

    The Muhle shop is in Soho.
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    Has anybody ever tried an ice cold razor?

    I have spent some years cold water shaving. It takes me back to school days, cold showers and adolescent cold water shaves. It saves me money and works well enough. Of course, heating, hot water and the rest are to be denied us, at least affordably, so many more can look forward to shivering...
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    New Razor From Occams

    I've been out of the "razor buying loop" for a while, but I like the look of this. I still consider my V1 Oren to be one of my best AC razors. Pity about the shipping, VAT and all the rest of the impediments to easy and cost-effective purchase.
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    The Traditional Shaving Co - Leodis Luxury Shaving Cream

    Presumably not to be confused with Signature Soaps "Leodis" soaps. PS The Signature Soaps "Leodis" are "hybrids" i.e. semi-soft "croaps", and my "Leodis" (Grapefruit, clary sage and Rose Gernaium) is more cream than soap; but superb anyway.
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    Starter pen

    Excellent commentary on convertors. The quality is extraordinarily variable, and some that might be expected to be good are not, and vice versa. I've had Schmidts (usually good), which weren't, and one of the best and most reliable was a screw-in one for something like Monteverde pens (I forget...
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    Starter pen

    They like playing marbles solitaire, although I'm not sure whether that's for the love of the game itself, or the ability to mess about with the marbles generally, and squabble over them.
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    Starter pen

    I've given my grandsons Japanese Platinum pens as starters. The Preppy and slightly better Plaisir models are in the £10-£13 range for the basic models. They do have a couple of minor downsides, in my view. Firstly, they use proprietary ink cartridges, although I think they can handle an adapter...
  10. Ferrum

    I hate digital

    Many thanks.
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    I hate digital

    With you all the way on that. I used film cameras and processed and printed all my own films (transparencies, colour included) for years, and I had my first camera at the end of the 1950s. The big attraction of digital was, for me, the absence of the rocketing costs of film and consumables...
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    Will you outlive your blades?

    Me too, but I'm hanging on to boxes of things like "The Gentleman" that came gratis, just in case there is a real shortage. For the first time in decades, I'm extending the supply lifetime of my blade stocks by the simple expedient of growing a "full set", ready to appear as Father Christmas or...
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    Will you outlive your blades?

    Calendars can also play a part!
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    Will you outlive your blades?

    This topic, which crops up from time to time, and often when "Razorgeddon" appears possible, always reminds me of the poem by T. S. Eliot, where J. Alfred Prufrock has "measured out my life with coffee spoons". Substitute "razor blades" for "coffee spoons", and it becomes an apposite and...
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    Umbrella

    I've always bought umbrellas from Swaine Adeney Brigg and Smiths. That was when I lived in London, but I haven't bought one since moving to the country (where umbrellas are usually carried only by clergymen, or used to be). One thing to look out for is the ability to have them recovered and...
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    Hello from Italy

    Welcome, and especially to anyone from Italy, where quality razors are still made, as well as superb soaps, aftershaves and other things I like very much.
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    3D Printed SE Safety Razor

    Apologies for late answer, but other things have been uppermost. Yes, I do have a MARS razor, in the original version, with both sets of plates (or spacers). I think mine are slightly different in that I asked for the 1/2 DE and injector plates to be different colours. As a razor, it shaves...
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    Adiós, Vie-Long

    One of the best badger/boar(bristle) brushes is or was Vulfix. They aren't very large, and I think they've stopped making them. Shave Lounge apparently have a couple, and they're not expensive at £10.95. The Vulfix "pure badger" brushes are OK, but the mixed ones are in my view better. There...
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    Adiós, Vie-Long

    I think it now rather depends on what you can find in stock anywhere. My personal preference has been for the white fan-shaped horsehair brushes, as I've found that the white ones are a little less prone to tangling than the brown hair bulb models. That said, I've had mine for quite a few years...
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    Shaving Time

    Absolutely absurd. Most DE razors don't come loaded with a blade anyway, but I suppose the combination of halfwitted politicians and "civil servants" don't see this. In general, just about everyone and everything in the UK seems to have forgotten the twin laws of "Cause and Effect" and...
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