If only someone made good 3 hole blades...

**napoleon** · 06-10-2009, 06:59 AM

If only some1 made good 3 hole blades, like the old gillettes. I finially got, by accident, some old 3-hole blades.
They fit perfectly in the old types, you can actually "adjust" the razor, cause the blades provide much more flex, so when you unscrew it a bit, the parts are tight, they don't wobble. And I guess about 50% thicker.
Imagine a 3 holed, sharp, thicker DE blades, brand new...

Mmmmm

**jpkunst** · 06-10-2009, 10:16 AM

Somebody makes three-hole blades:

http://bxblade.ecvv.com/products/575006.html

But if they are good, or even meant for shaving, I don't know...

shaved_***** · 06-10-2009, 11:41 AM

at one point i was thinking of trying to find an old blade machine and making 3 hold blades. In the teen and 20s there were hundreds of factories making Gillette style 3 hole blades. Some of those machines have to be still around somewhere...

**SavantStrike** · 06-10-2009, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by jpkunst

Somebody makes three-hole blades:

http://bxblade.ecvv.com/products/575006.html

But if they are good, or even meant for shaving, I don't know...

I wonder how well their razor wire shaves. Maybe we should go in on a group buy!

**soapbox** · 06-10-2009, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by shaved_*****

at one point i was thinking of trying to find an old blade machine and making 3 hold blades. In the teen and 20s there were hundreds of factories making Gillette style 3 hole blades. Some of those machines have to be still around somewhere...

You might be in for a lifetime of searching, but like the Model T in a barn in the desert, or the original Frankenstein electrical props found in a garage, such miracles exist.

On the other hand, WWII scrap metal drives might have claimed them all.

**napoleon** · 06-10-2009, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by shaved_*****

at one point i was thinking of trying to find an old blade machine and making 3 hold blades. In the teen and 20s there were hundreds of factories making Gillette style 3 hole blades. Some of those machines have to be still around somewhere...

If you would, I'd buy stock in your company

**cooncatbob** · 06-10-2009, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by shaved_*****

at one point i was thinking of trying to find an old blade machine and making 3 hold blades. In the teen and 20s there were hundreds of factories making Gillette style 3 hole blades. Some of those machines have to be still around somewhere...

Some body should have them unless they were all victims of the metal scrap drives during WW2.
Gillette dumped theirs in Boston harbor.

**jakespoppy** · 06-10-2009, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by cooncatbob

Some body should have them unless they were all victims of the metal scrap drives during WW2.
Gillette dumped theirs in Boston harbor.

Okay, there may be a punch-line at the end of this, but I'll ask anyway. Why did Gillette dump them in Boston harbor?

**mdunn** · 06-10-2009, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by jakespoppy

Okay, there may be a punch-line at the end of this, but I'll ask anyway. Why did Gillette dump them in Boston harbor?

im interested too.

next time im in boston im bringing my scuba stuff!

**cooncatbob** · 06-10-2009, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by jakespoppy

Okay, there may be a punch-line at the end of this, but I'll ask anyway. Why did Gillette dump them in Boston harbor?

I have no idea, but that what I remember reading in the book about King Camp Gillette and the Gillette company.
I have the book buried somewhere.
They were a rather paranoid company, had a bunch of lawyers and were always suing other companies for violating their patents.
I imagine they didn't want anybody else to use their custom made machinery and dumping in the harbor was a proper way to dispose of trash at the time.
They used to dump nuclear waste in barrels off the coast of San Francisco.

**Ohio** · 06-10-2009, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by SavantStrike

I wonder how well their razor wire shaves. Maybe we should go in on a group buy!

I have sent an inquiry on minimum purchase and costs.
We shall see.

**JimBow** · 06-10-2009, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by cooncatbob

They used to dump nuclear waste in barrels off the coast of San Francisco.

No, you don't say? Hmmmm....

**Bertilak** · 06-10-2009, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by JimBow

No, you don't say? Hmmmm....

You know the new rules -- don't go there!

**SavantStrike** · 06-10-2009, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by Ohio

I have sent an inquiry on minimum purchase and costs.
We shall see.

Awesome. I think we may have found a replacement for the almighty feather here!

Originally Posted by Robert Paulsen

You know the new rules -- don't go there!

Hey if he wants to take over the world, who are we to stop him? He just needs to share some of the proceeds.

**Hoos** · 06-10-2009, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by cooncatbob

...
They used to dump nuclear waste in barrels off the coast of San Francisco.

This could very well explain my near-superhuman ability to get a BBS in one stroke using a month-old Derby blade and used motor oil.

And the high quality of Nancy Boy products.

**JimBow** · 06-10-2009, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by Robert Paulsen

You know the new rules -- don't go there!

Oh, come on. It's all in good fun. I'm not gonna start something I'd regret.

**norman931** · 06-10-2009, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by cooncatbob

They used to dump nuclear waste in barrels off the coast of San Francisco.

I was on a nuclear-powered Navy ship in the late 80s. We could (and did) dump lots of nuclear waste in the ocean. Our only legal restrictions were that we had to be at least twelve miles from land, and we were to note in the ship's log the lat. and long. and how many gallons of nuke waste pumped out. I made several of those entries myself.