You’re listening to Wet Shaving Talk powered by Sharpologist.com where we’re dedicated to preserving the art and skill of classic shaving. I’m your host Joe Borrelli and today is September 2nd, 2026.
Today On The Show:
Dedication to Gillette Month!!
How it Started! Gillette’s Beginning
Recent Experience with Razor Emporium
I purchased my Birth Year Razor!!
Facts about Gillette
Fat Guy Razor is Back
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How It Started Gillette’s Beginning
In 1895, while standing at his sink, Gillette found his permanent straight razor dull. Sharpening it required a tedious trip to the barber or using a leather strop. In a flash of frustration, he envisioned a thin, double-edged piece of stamped steel clamped into a safe handle. Instead of sharpening the blade, users would simply throw it away when dull. (from wikipedia)
This led to the creation of the Gillette Razor. Advertised as a Barber shop in your pocket, the Gillette partnered up with William Nickleson and spent the next 8 years developing a disposable blade that would be simply tossed when no longer sharp.
The razor launched in 1903 selling 51 sets and 168 blades at a price of $5. The next year sold 90,000 razors and 12 million blades.
Gillette continued to innovate providing a more economical , better shaving system in order to stay relevant, a practice they still do to this day.
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Recent Experience with Razor Emporium
I sent in a razor to Razor Emporium for their Tune-Up Service.
I’ll tell you all about it.
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I Purchased My Birth Year Razor
I was fortunate enough to find my birth year (and quarter) razor over the past month. And in good shape I might add. C-4 for December of 1982.
It’s a razor that I have been looking for but not that easy to find, as it’s toward the end of Gillette Adjustable production.
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Facts about Gillette
Longest running Models include
- Aristocrat 1910-1980s: This nameplate, although used with several different models spanned over 70 years. Known as the premium flagship these razors were often gold plated
- Gillette Tech: 1939-1970s (90s globally) One of the best designs in my opinion. This razors has been replicated dozens of times.
- Gillette Mach 3: 1998-present: The best selling razor of all time for Gillette and is still relevant today.
Gillette’s Most Unsuccessful Razors
- Gillette Techmatic 1965 (Ribbon Cartridge): Blade was not stable and the mechanism often failed
- Gillette M3 Power 2004: A vibrating version of a cartridge razor that did not sit well with consumers.
- Gillette Techmatic 1947: An injector style razor to compete with Schick that never passed the test phase stage (Very valuable today)
Other Facts True or False
- Did Gillette ever stop making double edge razors?
- Does Gillette still manufacture in the USA?
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You’re listening to wet shaving talk powered by sharpologist.com where we’re dedicated preserving the art and skill of classic shaving. I’m your host Joe Borelli and today is September 2nd, 2026. All right, everyone, welcome back to the podcast on this brand new month right ahead of us right here. I hope you guys have a great Labor Day scheduled or Labor Day vacation coming up with some with a little bit of a break.
I do I have a couple days off. So I’m very happy about that. And getting getting ready for the Well, I guess you could say in Florida, it’s the new season, right? The the tourist season starts right after Labor Day and up north, that’s kind of when the summer ends.
So our season starts up north and ends. So everybody starts coming back down to Florida, where I live down south, and it starts getting busier and busier, especially where I work. So this is where it starts to get to be a little bit I guess you could say the quiet before the storm, right? So that’s usually what happens and this is usually the last hurrah for everybody up north before it starts getting cold and school starts and all that good stuff.
So hopefully you guys all have something really good planned for this weekend. If not, take a break, enjoy a couple good wet shaves and I guess enjoy life, right? So today on the show, you know, we talked about in the last show, which I do apologize was about a month ago, it was a little bit longer. And it’s been very, very, I guess you could say eventful month, start of school and all that stuff with my son.
And I’ve been messing around a lot with wet shaving. And I’ve been posting more on social media that I wanted to talk to a little bit about that as well. But dedication to I did talk about dedicating a month to Gillette. And this is going to be the way it starts.
So we’re going to talk about that we’re going to dedicate the month to Gillette. history of Gillette, all the good stuff about Gillette, some fun facts and everything. And I’m gonna announce something at the end of this month of a little something special that I’ve been working on involving Gillette as well. So we’re gonna talk a little bit about how Gillette started as a company, what made these razors come to fruition.
A lot of people talk about, oh wow, double-edged razors, been around for a long time. Well, how did they come out? We’re gonna tell you a little bit about that. I recently sent out a razor to Razor Emporium.
It was actually a heirloom razor, my grandfather’s razor, which I unfortunately broke. And then I tried to fix it and just wasn’t able to do it, even though I was getting some help. I’m just, you know, and I am actually pretty handy in certain things. This thing I couldn’t do so I sent it out and I’ll tell you my experience with them.
I just got it back yesterday and I just used it this morning for the first time and since it’s been back and I’ll tell you a little bit about the experience and what went and how it went with that particular vendor. Also, during the break, I purchased my birth year razor. Believe it or not, I was able to find a birth year razor for myself. Not that easy to find.
Been looking for years. I just got very lucky on eBay. I have a picture of it in the show notes. I’m gonna tell you a little bit about that as well.
And then we’re gonna talk about some fun facts about Gillette. And then also, another razor that’s coming back, the Fat Guy razor is back. I wanted to just talk about that. I don’t have any show notes or anything for that one, but I’m gonna talk a little bit about that razor in general and what that means.
Without further ado, guys, let’s get on with the show. So one thing before we get into into the Gillette aspect of this of our series here is I want to talk a little bit about social media and wet shaving. So recently, I said to myself the last month, I said, you know what, I’m going to start posting more on social media platforms. and using my Shave Straight and Stave site and everything, and just going out there and starting to actually just, I guess you could say post Shave of the Days and see.
And one thing I noticed is that it is, on most social media platforms, it’s not as busy as it used to be. I noticed a lot of people aren’t posting their Shave of the Days, and there isn’t a lot of chatter, especially on some of the bigger Now, Badger and Blade is still pretty popular, I’d say. Straight Razor plays as well. But a lot of the Facebook groups, Instagram posts and stuff, they’re not posting as much as usual.
And that got me a little worried because when I used to post a lot, I used to get a lot of conversation and stuff. And I have only talked to about one or two people. in the last month with about 10 or 15 posts. So it’s a little bit alarming, I could say.
And I’m not a big Facebook, Instagram person, if you guys know me, probably looked up, if you’ve ever seen anything, I don’t really post, I don’t really get involved. I just I don’t really I don’t know, I should probably get more involved in it. But lately, with wet shaving, you know, I was just reaching out to see if I can get any, you know, see if anybody’s out there with some attention, see if they’re posting anything, and just see if we can get some conversation going. And it was very, very little.
And these are some big groups at four or 5000 people. So I’m not sure if this is something that we’re going to start seeing a trend of, but it does look like the boom of certain items and stuff is just kind of I guess, Slowing down. It’s just not as busy as it used to be out there And I think a lot of people are just content with what they get they buy it they read about it I think AI has a lot to do with it. You can go on AI and answer most of your questions there and Just go from you know in that area, and I think that’s what’s kind of slowing down the communication now I did post a few things on badger and blade I posted for some parts for razors
because I was working on some stuff and And a lot of people really were saying, hey, I got something for you. I’ll send it to you. Hey, just send me the shipping. So I think the brotherhood or the friendliness and everything is still out there.
But if you see anything with social media and you’re noticing, hey, social media seems to be slowing down a little bit. The wet shaving community seems to be slowing down. I think it’s mainly because of AI. And I think a lot of people are just searching and not really reaching out to each other anymore and just looking it up and getting those answers there.
Hopefully that changes. If you guys have any other, you know, observations you see, please feel free to email me. Let me know. Love to talk about it.
So how did Gillette actually get started? So Gillette is a company that I have done a lot of research on over the years. I’ve done a lot of content with them regarding Gillette because of the way the company was built. Now, King C.
Gillette is a entrepreneur that really was struggling to, I guess, find himself in the late 1800s. He has a bunch of patents. He was working on a lot of things. He worked with his brother and his father and a lot of people and really it came to the point where he came up from an idea to where he said, hey, look, I don’t like my shave, right?
I don’t wanna use a straight razor, I gotta go to a barber. And then at the time, the Camp Brothers came out with the Star Razor, which was a safety razor with a blade that needed to be stropped and honed. He was using one of those and he says, hey, listen, I don’t want to use this anymore. This is a pain in the neck.
I’m traveling. I need something that’s going to be quick, easy, that I don’t have to get honed and stropped and worry about it. Because I don’t want to go to a barber. I’m on the run.
He was really a commuting salesman at the time. And when he worked, as a, I guess you could say he was working with a bottle top company, and noticed that they were doing disposable bottle caps. At the time, you used to have to get, you know, you used to reuse your bottle caps, right? And these are disposable bottle caps, right off a bottle, you take it off, you drink it, whatever, and then you throw it away, you throw those caps away, and he thought that was a great idea, of a disposable life to where it was easier, cheaper, you can get
in there, get it done, and then you don’t have to worry about finding it or redoing it, and it was just a very simple way of doing it. So then he decided, hey, you know what, I’m going to go for it. I’m going to go make a razor with a thin blade that’s disposable. I’ll sell the blades razor and then I don’t have to ever strop again or ever worry about it.
And after about 10 years, that’s what happened, right? In 1903, we saw the first double edge razor come out. And it was made by Gillette, which really it didn’t take them as long to make the razor as it did to make the blades, to make those really, really thin, very, very sharp blades so then they would work. And they created them, came out with them, and basically that was it.
So you advertise as a barbershop in your pocket that you no longer have to… you know, strop, and you can get, you don’t have to go to the barber anymore. So the gentleman that helped him out, the engineer, was William Nicholson, who also spent about eight years developing the blade, and making sure that the blade was disposable, yet sharp enough to shave, and good quality, so people would continue to buy them cheap enough to get them. So in 1903, the actual set, the first set was launched.
They were charging around $5 for them, which is about, I think, almost $200 in today’s money, so it was a lot of money. It was a luxury product with blades that they also sold, and they sold about 51 sets in 1903, and the next year, in 1904, they sold 90,000 razors and 12 million blades, just to show you how much it moved up and how popular it got, even with the high price point in 1904. So even if you think about it, and even today, $5 is about the right, you can get a razor from Gillette for about 10 bucks, right?
You can get a Mach 3 for $10. You can get a, if you go to the grocery store to get it or the drugstore. Online, of course, you can find cheaper alternatives. But I mean, it’s not that much different than today.
So imagine paying $200 of a razor and then selling 90,000 of them in 1904 and then going into the millions soon after. So it’s one thing that what Gillette did was they continue, until today, they’re continuing to improve, right? They continue to improve on their design. They changed it up and make the blades better and more economical and making it basically easier to shave and developing the way people shave.
for over 125 years, they still do it to this day. They’re still very innovative, they still come out with new stuff, and they still also are dedicated to making the shave better and more efficient. So that’s it with about just a real basic history on Gillette. Now there’s a very detailed amount of stuff there that you can look up, and I think I wanted to keep it very basic on how it started, but basically Gillette was a traveling salesman, didn’t want to shave anymore and strop, wanted to just shave and be done with
it, and that’s what he did. It took him about 10 years, but he created it, and now it’s changed the lives of billions of people, not millions, billions. So I added this in the last minute and it’s a little bit why I’m a little delayed on the podcast was, I recently had an experience with Razor Emporium. Now, I have met Matt Pisarczyk, one time I met him at the Big Shave West a long time ago, and he showed me some of his collection and I’ve collaborated with him with a few projects over the years and asked for help and asked for a little advice.
And my grandfather’s 1979 Razor Emporium Gillette Super Adjustable 104 or 109, I’m sorry, it broke. And it broke and I was unable to shave with it. It wasn’t working very well. Now this is the razor that started my wet shaving journey.
I was very close to this razor because I found this razor back in 2011 after my grandfather passed away. Threw his stuff and decided to research it and I started using it. I’ve been using it pretty consistently ever since. But after time, as with everything that’s mechanical, they break.
So this one was really giving me a hard time. It broke. And then I said, you know what, I didn’t want to send it out because I was really worried about getting it damaged or losing it because it was really important to me. So I said, and I didn’t want to alter the razor.
I didn’t want to get anything new on it. I wanted everything to stay the same because it was my grandfather’s razor and everything. So I attempted to take it apart. And I didn’t do too good.
All right, I fail, I’m not gonna lie to you guys, I kind of failed miserably with it. I tried to put it back together. I even messaged Matt, he tried to walk me through it. I just don’t have the tools, I guess, to do it.
And I really, if you guys know me, I’m a mechanical person. I do everything at home. as much as I possibly can. I try not to contract anything out if I can avoid it.
Example, I fix cars. My father was a mechanic for 40 years. I’ve learned how to do it. I do a lot of work on my cars.
I do everything I possibly can without sending it out. I do stuff at the house. I can do drywall. I can do plumbing.
I can do a little bit of electrical work, but I can do a lot of stuff, so I’m a big DIY person, do-it-yourself person. And I was a little bit defeated on this one, because I don’t know, I was messing up on it, it was still not working, and I was making it worse. So I said, you know what, I’m gonna send it out. I sent it out about a week and a half ago, and the way it came back, I gotta say, they did an amazing job, and they did a lot of communication with me.
You know, they communicated with me saying, hey, listen, do you just wanna, there was a little crack in the handle, do you wanna fix it, or do you wanna leave it, it won’t affect the shave, it just will be there. I said, nope, leave it, I want the razor to be as original as possible. They cleaned it up well. They replaced the click spring on it that was missing.
So they were able to get the razor back together and it is working very good. So I am very happy with that. And I think the communication was really good. So I think for the tune-up service is what I used.
I will be sending out another razor too that I try to take apart and break. And I think I might have learned my lesson because I’ve gone through probably about $30 or $40 on parts myself to try to do it. Hey, I just don’t have the tools or the know-how. If any of you guys out there can teach me one day, I will be more than happy to do a teams, teams or Skype session or whatever.
And you guys can show me how to do it. I’d love to go to a place and do it myself to and learn. Because I think it’s an amazing skill to do that. And just to be able to put these things back together.
As you can see that when they take take them apart, I don’t think they’re supposed to come back together. Now, a couple years ago, I took one apart and I got it back, but unfortunately, that razor was kind of doing the same thing. I broke it again. So that one and this one, I just I broke two click springs on it.
So the little clicker on the top and I’m just like, you know what, I think I’m already gone through enough with this one. I’m going to send this one out as well. I think it was a good service, very good customer service, so I was very happy with it. Again, guys, I did not receive this service for free or anything like that.
I paid full price, didn’t even disclose I was sending it out, just like a regular customer, but I was very impressed with it and I was very happy with the result. Came back original, came back working very well, and I think whatever they’re doing over there, they have it done right, and I’d love to go one day tour that shop and see how they do it and be able to report it to you guys as well. Thank you Razer Emporium for their experience. I think you guys did a great job and keep up the good work and you’ll definitely be getting future business from me in the near future.
Moving along, I got very lucky guys, I found a 1982 C4 or C, which means 1982 fourth quarter Gillette adjustable recently, and I’ve been looking for quite a few years, this is not an easy one to find. And that’s my birth year razor. That’s what I was born in December of 1982. So I’m really happy that I was able to find that it was in very good shape, very good, it doesn’t need any work to it and almost like new old stock condition, and shave’s great.
So I’ve been looking for it, and I think a lot of us out there do try to find our birth year razor, right? I think that’s definitely on the wish list of a lot of people. If you’re born, I would say, you know, 1988 or older, you’re gonna be able to find it. It might be a little harder if you’re born before that, unless you want something along the lines of like, I think Gillette stopped with date codes on the Mach 3 in 2001.
So, I think you can find something around that part. But for double-edged razors up until 1988 is about it. So, a lot of us out there, a lot of the people that are listening, actually probably about the average age group is in that level. So, it’s harder for us to find those Gillette razors or anything for our birth year.
But this is it. I found it. Shaves great. Been using it a lot.
and I’ve been really enjoying it. This one is going to be sticking with me for a little while. And I do find it to be a great shaver as well. So I just wanted to share that with you guys since it’s Gillette month and I got really lucky.
And I didn’t pay, I think I paid about $30 for it shipped from eBay. So you can find them out there. Take a look. Keep going.
And if you need any help with Gillette day codes or anything like that, just Google it or AI it and you’ll see it very quickly and it’ll be able to help you pinpoint your razor. All right, one of my favorite parts of Gillette is some, let’s talk about some facts. Some facts and maybe some fiction. No, no fiction today.
We’re gonna talk about Gillette and a couple of facts that a lot of people do not realize and do not know and I didn’t know until I did some research. So, the longest running models from Gillette include, and you’ll be shocked on what you see, The Aristocrat, which has been running since 1910 until the 1980s. The Aristocrat, and it’s not one particular model, it’s a type of model, it’s a flagship. So the Aristocrat is the gold-plated version of something, right?
It’s a gold-plated version of a twist-open, it’s a gold-plated version of a fat boy, or a gold-plated version of a super adjustable, slim, you name it. And they’ve actually been making They made those razors for over 70 years, from 1910s to the 1980s, and this is the longest running model that Gillette used, or name that Gillette used, and it was over 70 years that they used that model. So, the Aristocrat is definitely the number one. Again, this kind of, you would have to probably put an asterisk next to this, because it’s different types of razors, but the Aristocrat model itself has been going on for 70 years.
The next one would be the Gillette Tech. Was going on and it’s you’re gonna this is gonna be one of those asterisks as well because it from in the United States It was produced from 1939 until the 1970s, but it was continued to been produced globally until the 1990s So we didn’t have it here in the United States, but there were made but the Gillette tech the three-piece Gillette was made for over 60 or around I guess you could say 30 to 40 50 years right maybe longer and depending on which source you see, but it was made globally until the 1990s. And this is the razor that I think is the best design of any three-piece razor ever made.
I think this one, with that head, with the blade gap, the way it grabs the blades on the side, I think a lot of people have replicated this, right? I think you look at the BBS1 from Wolfman, that’s one of the designs here. They definitely came from a tech, right? It’s very similar.
If you look at a tech, you look at a BBS1 or a Wolfman WR2, those razors, which I feel are really good razors, are very similar to the tech. In fact, if you take the top cap off a tech, it will go on the BBS1. I’ve done it. I can make a Franken razors out of that.
I think it’s a great shaver. I think the fat handle tech I think it’s perfect. I think it’s one of the best razors you can get affordable, great shaver and you can restore them do whatever you want with them. You can send them out and get them replated.
You can paint them if you want to powder coat them. You can just you know, you can just I guess you can, you know, polish them up whatever but they are beautiful razors and the most probably the most replicated design of anything. So I think and it’s also I think the best design so one of the best razors out there And then finally the Gillette Mach 3 one of the longest-running models It is still being made to this day and was released in 1998 and for what I’ve seen It’s still a very good seller top seller for Gillette year in and year out.
I have Mach 3 I got one when I was 18. This was the razor they sent to my house when I turned 18 and I think it was One of the better ones I actually got lost that one I think and I got another one I think in 2003 or so which I still have to this day I don’t use it really at all but it’s still in there and it’s still still comes with me you know places and stuff and I still always keep blades for just in case you know it’s good for you know touch up shave or if you’re in a rush it’s really nice to use.
And still one of the best it is considered the best-selling razor of all time for Gillette and still relevant still going to this day So the Mach 3 keep going keep calling it. I know no signs of going away So Gillette’s most unsuccessful razors. First one would be the Gillette Tec-Matic, the ribbon cartridge one. This was a blade that had, the first cartridge razor made, had like a ribbon inside it where you would turn it to get it sharp again.
It would go around until you hit the end of the ribbon. This razor was absolutely, I think, terrible. I don’t think they did very well with them. I don’t think they sold very well.
I think they were, quickly, quickly discontinued. They only lasted, I think it was one or two years, maybe 1965, 1966. And the only thing that claimed the fame this razor has is it went to space. That’s it.
It went to space because they didn’t want to lose blades. And then I believe that’s why it was created. I don’t know, but it did go on the space. It was on a spaceship.
It was in space and astronauts used it. But other than that it was very not very popular and there’s still tons of them out there guys if you need one They’re really cheap. You can buy the blades to the cartridges. I don’t know if it’s gonna work.
I wouldn’t try it I have never I have I do have a techmatic. I’ve never used one, but I think it’s just not something for me either And then the Gillette M3 Power. So the Mach 3 Power for 2004 was a vibrating version of the cartridge razor. And believe it or not, from what I’ve read, it didn’t sit very well with consumers.
It was taken off the shelf within less than a year. It was definitely one of Gillette’s failures. And they said that it was not very good and they invested a lot of money into it from what I’ve read online. So that’s one of them as well.
One of the worst razors they came out with, or unsuccessful razors, was the Mach 3 Power. And then finally, one of the most valuable razors to this day. Extremely valuable, extremely hard to find. There are a few of them out there, but you’re going to look in the $4,000 to $5,000 range.
It’s the Gillette Tecmatic for 1947. This is when Gillette tried to make the injector. This razor just never really passed the testing phase. So you know we talked about the Gillette Adjustable previously.
I’ve talked about that many times and wrote about that. Gillette Adjustables went through a lot of test markets. This one didn’t even finish that testing. It just didn’t work out, wasn’t made for Gillette customers, and they just kind of put it away.
So if you have one of these, they’re very, very valuable. I do highly recommend holding on to them. I think there’s less than five of them known in the world. And then some other true facts and good stuff about Gillette.
So did you know that Gillette never stopped making double-edged razors? That’s 100% right. If you look online, Gillette still makes a double-edged razor, they still make the NAC, they still make a couple of them, and they still make blades, and they’ve never stopped. Even though they stopped in 1988 with making them in the United States and making them for the American market, They’ve been making double-edged razors for overseas and for other areas, South America, Asia, for constantly and consistently.
So they never stopped making double-edged razors since 1903. I personally have bought a brand new Gillette Knack recently. I travel with it. It’s great.
It’s a nice little very mild shaver and the blades that come with it are good too. It’s a good little razor and it’s still available. And the beauty of the internet now is it makes it so we can buy it even though in the United States it’s not available. we can buy it on Amazon, we can buy it on eBay, and it’s very easy to get and they’re very affordable.
They’re under $10. So does Gillette still manufacture in the United States? It’s a question I think a lot of people ask. And the answer is, yes, they do.
They actually still produce blades and they still produce certain products in the Boston plant. And if you read online, they’ve actually purchasing more, a bigger, I believe they’re building another factory in Boston for Gillette for manufacturing as well. So they never truly stopped building in the United States, but they did stop making double-edged razors here. They still make I believe cartridge razor heads here or blades, certain parts of the razors are still made here in the United States, kind of close net on their locking key, not much known about it, they don’t really advertise about it.
I think they probably should because it would bring more attention to them. But I think, you know, you you don’t realize that they still do make stuff in the Boston headquarters. And I believe from what I read online, they’re purchasing more land or another factory to do more work in the near future. So That’s all I got on Gillette for this week.
Now, next week, we’re going to talk a little bit more about adjustable razors. We’re going to talk about what changed the world in that and that whole mechanics of that thing. Definitely a marvel and definitely something that was just really cool and how the razors worked out and how they come in. And, you know, I’m a fan of Gillette adjustables.
For years, I didn’t like shaving with them, but now I’ve been getting more into them, I think, just because they’re pretty cool. You know, they’re mechanical and stuff, and I think they’re really fun. And then we’ll talk a little bit more about Gillette, some more facts, and some more good stories on that too. And then on the final show, I’ll post some viewers of Razors and their stories as well.
So if you’re a viewer, you have some story, you have a story about a Gillette Razor that you received, kind of like mine, could have been of relatives or something, please be sure to send it to me. If you found something in an antique shop or anything like that, send it to me too, joe.wetshavingnews.com. And I will definitely feature it in the show. Looking forward to seeing some really good stories on that too.
All right, guys, so that does conclude the show for this week. Again, I apologize for being a little bit out of the loop and skipping a few shows here. I don’t really like doing that, as you guys know. I do like staying very relevant with the wet shaving community, but I’ve been out there, I’ve been posting and really looking for, actually, like I said, I bought a razor this year, getting razors fixed.
A lot of my collection, not really trying to build up a collection, but I’m trying to maintain my collection and get it nice and keep it shaving for years to come. I’ve been using a lot of safety razors lately, which I know a lot of you don’t hear me say too often because I’m a straight razor guy, but you got to appreciate all parts of what shaving, right? Enjoy it. It’s fun.
Safety razors are a lot of fun. They’re fun to collect, they’re fun to talk about, and they’re very fun to shave with. All right, so that concludes the show for this week. As always, our show is powered by Sharpologist.com, what your father didn’t teach you about shaving.
Special thanks to MarkMantic59 for everything that he does for the wet shaving community and for celebrating, I believe, 20 years of making videos. So great job, Mark. Looking really forward to seeing another 20 years coming up too. Also, guys, of course, most of all, you guys are listeners because without you, there’d be no podcast.
So, don’t forget to check out the blog site, ShaveStraightAndSafe.com. I have updated it. There has been some posts coming up, so it’s going to get interesting. And also, feel free to contact me at any time at Joe.WhatShavingNews at gmail.com.
My book is still out there with the Modern Guide to Straight Razor Shaving available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at Pasteur’s Pharmacy in New York City. All right, guys. Until the next show, shave straight and shave safe. Bye-bye now.
