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Charles_de_Zemler

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|born=ca. 1886, Sweden
|died=1964-08-06, New...

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Have you picked a starting point yet? If not, I nominate Aqua Velva - by which I mean any of the AV products. AV has plenty of history to recall, is...

It sounds like your last shave irritated your skin just a little bit: very mild razor burn, which is usually the result of blade pressure. The ideal shave should not irritate at all. You say that you...

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Confirming the patent dates, a Gillette Techmatic trademark was filed 1947-01-08: http://www.trademarkia.com/techmatic-71515419.html. It included an illustration that resembles this razor case and...

That does not sound like razor burn: more like ingrowns. But here are some ideas.

Shaving too closely often aggravates any tendency toward ingrowns. So shave less closely, but shave often enough...

Here is a partial, no doubt incomplete, overview of Gillette open comb variations. All but the rightmost Goodwill and the leftmost two are NEW razors, but mostly we only talk about two from the...

Did you miss typing in the price for the Stahly?

Each of those words has meaning by itself. But as a sentence....?

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In your position I would look for a 40s super speed in good condition. It will shave about the same as the fancier-looking razors: the main differences are knurling and weight. If...

I have been working on that Green Irish Tweed croap sample. Today the shave was the best yet. I smashed the last few grams of the sample on top of a vintage Opal stick. This let me apply a nice thin...

Good advice. You might also try a little cleaning: Mantic has a video on the subject and found that it increased blade life. I jeans-strop, without removing the blade. With good blades I find that it...

Looks interesting. I had never heard of it, but http://www.basenotes.net/products/zizanie has some discussion. Picking through it, I see comparisons to Royal Copenhagen, Stetson and Black Suede. And...

The wiki has some information: start at http://wiki.badgerandblade.com/Shopping%20by%20Country. To the best of my knowledge there is nothing in SF or Sacramento on the scale of Pasteur in NYC, Mertz...

I meant low temperature compared to a typical autoclave, not compared to a beer cooler.

Most of the gents here got just as far as I did in high school chemistry, so we know that boiling water at...

Hard water requires more soap or cream, yes.

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New York Magazine 1972-06-19: "Auctions – ... At PB-84, 171 E 84, TR-9 8300... Thur, 6/22, 10:30, De Zemler collection of barber-shop memorabilia."

This seems to be it. I gather PB-84 has some...

ca. 1952

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The galvanic potential between two grades of steel should be tiny so I suspect a different mechanism is at work. It might be some form of pitting corrosion, or something to do with the way the parts...

Palladium has a high galvanic potential vs steel blades. So does rhodium. If your water provides enough of the right electrolytes, this can lead to corroded blades. See...

You and that Arly stick will have a great future together. I foresee two or three of months of excellent shaves.

The great thing about a stick is that the brush has less work to do. It still does...

I believe it is done before the knots are formed. Gary Young once mentioned that brush makers receive the hair pre-sterilized. My guess is that they use low-temperature steam, carefully controlled so...

Sadly I think you are right. That would be a few years after the Yardley ad, and his son in the Army was named Robert. Charles and Robert are common names, and Zemler is not too rare. But "de Zemler"...

Has Charles de Zemler been discussed here? I stumbled across him in this 1940 feature article on the history of barbering, written by Paul Figgens for the 1940-02-04 Sunday Morning Star of...

Glancing through the PDF again, I happened to notice that the metadata for The Science of Shaving lists the author as "Østergaard, Vilhelm (1852-1928)". Probably this is an error due to the pseudonym...

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It takes time to learn how to get the best shaves from a DE. The Weishi has a reputation as a mild razor, so if you are getting razor burn it is probably from putting pressure on...

Thanks, that is useful corroboration from the museum. At least we know 3-14-16 was not a typo. Based on that and a search I did using the most relevant classification code, it looks like...

Sounds defective. Better send it to me for proper disposal.

Yes, there are differences between th USA and Made in England NEW razors. There seem to be many variations from the UK plant, but the...

I have shaved with both, and I believe they are the same. Not my favorite blade, but better than many.

Medical advice from the Internet is worth what you pay for it - or less. Still, my take is that good prep and technique will clear up the problem.

Was your dermatologist recommending a laser...

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It looks like a variation on this old favorite...
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I like open combs, but not necessarily the most aggressive ones. What works best for me is a milder open comb like the Gillette NEW. If a vintage razor does not appeal, an open-comb Merkur might. See...

I doubt there would have been anything useful. Maybe "contents: soap". You could check the wiki page for Williams mug soap, which has ingredients for some formulations. The oldest is pre-1977:...

Thanks. I turned up some of the other patents via google but not US1006420. It looks about right to me. I will look into the other dates mentioned on that case, too.

EDIT: The museum collection...