Gibbs

[efsk]

@Clouds do you take orders?

 

[pj3r]

You read my mind...

 

[Clouds]

@Clouds do you take orders?

You read my mind...

I'm not sure what the future holds for it at the moment. I'm very happy to know that the concept works but there are some issues that need solving.
Knowing myself, I'll probably mess around over the weekend and make version 2 which will solve my current issues but might bring out others.

Couple that to the fact that Heritage are about to release their Gibbs Homage at supposedly sub $100. If that shaves like a Gibbs, this more-or-less becomes a non-starter.

It's an ideal candidate for CNC and then just doing the assembly, but that's a numbers game.

 

[Clouds]

For those of you that trim the edges of the blade, here is a cheap solution for centering those blades.
Developed by Fabien in France - it works great. Its up on Thingiverse, so warm those 3D printers up.

Gibbs Blade Centering Plugs

 

[Walid]

Interesting variant. I expect this to be somewhat older, judging by the handle. Baseplate of a shape I haven't seen before with Gibbs
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One guy contacted me and showed me this razor in his original box. The shipper is written in Dutch. It was a razor for the Netherlands apparently.
I'll ask him to send me the picture for the shipper box. Reference 20.

 

[Walid]

Here you go, The Dutch model.

 

[efsk]

Text on the case and the razor itself is French. I've seen such shippers with Dutch text on one side and French on the other, which figures for Belgium, which is where the one you show was produced as well: Brussels.

 

[Walid]

So, Gibbs had factories in Brussels? Or the Shipper was produced in Brussels?
The reference 20 was new to me, I didn't know it existed. I guess this model was for the Belgian. Did they sell it in the Netherlands too?

 

[efsk]

Either a factory, or maybe it was their local presence from where they did distribution in Belgium. Whether this was sold in the Netherlands is lost in the mist of times I guess ...
As for Ref20, did not know that one either. We do know however that their numbering was somewhat random at times. What surprises me a bit is that the number is high, where I would have placed this razor early.

 

[Walid]

The only way to know for sure is to get those Gibbs Agendas they sold in France. They contain valuable information, all the publicity per year, so several agendas are needed. But for the price I found them, they will cost me more than 1000 EUR. I need to keep looking.

I'll talk to some french guys and see what can do here.

 

[efsk]

My Gibbs 75 years history book unfortunately only tells the companystory. It shows few products, and no catalogues.

 

[ehv]

Ordered from Atelier 3DStore on Etsy.

Excellent!

 

[Walid]

Ordered from Atelier 3DStore on Etsy.

Excellent!

How does it work exactly? Do you need a shorter blade?

 

[ehv]

You place the aligners on the bottom cap. But you still have to cut a little piece of the tabs of the blade to get it to feet between the pins.

 

[Walid]

You place the aligners on the bottom cap. But you still have to cut a little piece of the tabs of the blade to get it to feet between the pins.

So, the aligners act as blade stabilizers only. You still need to cut. Interesting.

 

[Sprag]

Gibbs No 14

 

[Walid]

Gibbs No 14

Hey, new guy, you need to ask permission before posting....Just kidding . Keep it up friend.