GEM Days 10b/14: The Featherweight – Tue 26 Nov 2024
Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
Razor: GEM - Featherweight
Blade: Personna GEM PTFE
Lather: Klar Kohle
Post Shave: Wars – Fresh
Simple evening shave with unscented Klar Kohle, generic Wars, and the GEM Featherweight. This razor is practically equivalent, but not identical to the Ever-Ready version: The best way to tell them apart is by looking at the bottom of the handle. The Gem version has a little “G” where the Ever-Ready has just a bullseye (blue annotation in the picture). We will see this distinction again tomorrow when we look at the G-Bar and the E-Bar. Further the Ever-ready has an additional rivet at the neck (yellow annotation) and finally there are a few minor differences in the detailed outlines of top-cap, the leaf springs, the rivets, and the base plate of the Ever-Ready in thicker that the GEM’s (red annotation).
This was shave 20 of my run through all 14 generations of GEM-style razors:
GEM Days 10b/14: The Featherweight – Tue 26 Nov 2024
Simple evening shave with unscented Klar Kohle, generic Wars, and the GEM Featherweight. This razor is practically equivalent, but not identical to the Ever-Ready version: The best way to tell them apart is by looking at the bottom of the handle. The Gem version has a little “G” where the Ever-Ready has just a bullseye (blue annotation in the picture). We will see this distinction again tomorrow when we look at the G-Bar and the E-Bar. Further the Ever-ready has an additional rivet at the neck (yellow annotation) and finally there are a few minor differences in the detailed outlines of top-cap, the leaf springs, the rivets, and the base plate of the Ever-Ready in thicker that the GEM’s (red annotation).
This was shave 20 of my run through all 14 generations of GEM-style razors:
1906-1953: GEM 1912/Star Cadet/Junior/Damaskeene1914-1927: 19141924-1933: 1924 Shovelhead1930-1932: Micromatic Open Comb Gen 1 (Bumpless baseplate)1932-1941: Micromatic Open Comb Gen 2 (double-edge Micromatic GEM blades)1940-1943: Micromatic Clog-Pruf1945-1946: Micromatic Clog-Pruf Peerless1947-1950: Micromatic Flying Wing/Bullet Tip, with guiding eye until 1948, with plastic knob in the last year1949-1953: GEM Jewel/Streamline/Ambassador (The beginning of the end IMHO)