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ScotchDave
04-05-2009, 02:47 PM
Evening gents, just had a wee chat with my father, and he thinks that his father used a gillette single edge razor at some point.

My first reaction was that it was probably a gem, what he described blade wise matches up very closely to a gem. But I wanted to check with you guys if gillette ever made a single edge razor?

Many Thanks
Dalejr
04-05-2009, 02:58 PM
I've personnaly never heard of or seen one....
MrGuy
04-05-2009, 03:08 PM
Gillette made an injector for a short time if I'm not mistaken. Not like a GEM, but SE.
ScotchDave
04-05-2009, 03:45 PM
Gillette made an injector for a short time if I'm not mistaken. Not like a GEM, but SE.

Does anyone have a picture of one of these?
Fnord5
04-05-2009, 03:49 PM
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/3117366480_82ac6d3296.jpg
MrGuy
04-05-2009, 03:56 PM
Fnord5 beat me to it, but Rodd has a couple of very nice pics about 3/4 of the way down this thread. (http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=66984)
mmack66
04-05-2009, 04:37 PM
They had the Techmatic razor as well. I assume that could be considered single edge.
MrGuy
04-05-2009, 04:42 PM
They had the Techmatic razor as well. I assume that could be considered single edge.

Good call. I forgot about that one.
VR6ofpain
04-05-2009, 07:01 PM
I don't think Gillette ever did standard SE blades. With that said they would not make a razor, since they would not make a profit on it. I think they only did the injector razor because they made the injector blades brieftly the "Twinjector/early Trac II". Remember these companies are all about the profit, i.e. BLADES.
scottydoint
04-05-2009, 07:09 PM
Maybe he thinks SE is DE. DE blades only have one blade on the face at a time.
D.Irving79
04-05-2009, 07:39 PM
im going with no. unless you count valet auto strop.
wizard
04-05-2009, 07:49 PM
im going with no. unless you count valet auto strop.

Yea that's right, I forgot Gillette did buy out Auto Strop.
Hanspleasure
04-05-2009, 11:47 PM
Here's a couple pics of the Injector Gillette produced.. I've yet to use it so maybe this is the week?
mr-razor
04-06-2009, 12:15 AM
Here are the blades:
Aevum
04-06-2009, 06:49 AM
btw, that is one of the better injectors ever made,
rodd
04-06-2009, 07:19 AM
btw, that is one of the better injectors ever made,

true story.
mmack66
04-06-2009, 07:23 AM
btw, that is one of the better injectors ever made,

In terms of quality of shave?
cutting_edge
04-06-2009, 07:39 AM
btw, that is one of the better injectors ever made,

The handle is nothing special really, but Gillette's injector blades (the Platinum variety) are fantastic!