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yeahbit, the edge on ANY kinda razor is straight!
not my George Morley. It doesn't have a straight edge. It has a smile like a clown that just cut a fart.
yeahbit, the edge on ANY kinda razor is straight!
I vote with the guys who say that the term "straight" was coined after other razor types were introduced. Up to then, they were the only "razors". The first alternatives would have been single edge "safety razors".
Similarly, landscape paintings only got that title after people started living in cities (at least people who came up with names for types of painting).
yeahbit, the edge on ANY kinda razor is straight!
NO thats not true ....have you seen the round under arm razors...or many industrial razors are curved or bent...ever seen the hooked vinyl flooring razors?
Just playing devils advocate here
I have no idea, but IMO it is likely due to the geometry of the blade. I am not sure when Double Edge razors were first called double edged or when single edged versions of safety razors first appeared (whether any single edged were before King Gillette). But I imagine that the long-straight-line geometry of the blade had something to do with it, to provide a contrast against the double edged safety razors that was introduced later (with two sharp edges...two halves...not a straight contiguous edge). Though I would have doubts that the original King Gillette was known as a safety razor at their introduction...but again I don't know the history around their introduction that well.
Thanks for the information. So single edge razors were introduced first, that makes sense.First single edge patent was 1878. "Safety-Razors" term was used in a SE patent application in May 1880. Gillette patent app was 1901. Injector razors 1920's by Schick. FYI.
If the first GEM was disposable, 1898 so SE would seem to predate the DE by 3 years. Gillette's patent was a disposable blade from the get go. That was how he planned to make his money, from blade sells. A marketing model still in use today most notably by ink jet printers.Thanks for the information. So single edge razors were introduced first, that makes sense.
When was the first disposable blade introduced? Was it designed a DE or SE razor? I ask out of ignorance and some weak memory from years ago of reading about how the motivation for the DE was to have a second fresh edge...that it put off touch-up honing and made more efficient use of materials (steel). And could this have also contributed to the coining of the straight razor term. Since there might have been a need to distinguish between all these blade types.