Episode of "How It's Made", Razor Blades/Safety Razors, Science Channel

There's a cool HD show on the Science Channel called How It's Made. They take HD cameras into factories and such and show all the steps as they make various things, from canoes to stuffed olives to watches, etc.

I recently ran across an episode fetauring the making of game calls, mayonnaise, DE razor blades and safety razors. It was pretty cool seeing all the machinery and processes involved in making Crystal blades and I think the safety razor was a Merkur Futur.

The show format is pretty simple. Just a pleasant narrator matter-of-factly explaining what's going on while they show gorgeous HD shots of workers actually making stuff.

It's the Merkur Vision 2000 razor. You can view the video on Youtube... It's been out a while, I'm guessing you caught a re-run of the program, but yes, it is interesting.

Here's the Youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4gTs_FRORE

cool!

Yeah that's an awesome show in general. There are a few others that are very similar, perhaps knockoffs or perhaps made by the same people. "Factory Made" is another. I believe they're actually first produced for a foreign market then redubbed for the American market. Most of the companies I've seen appear to be European. Still very cool.

Cool, now I want to see a vintage how it's made for the old gillette 'new'