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Blade Whisperer
As the "bread and butter" razor from Gillette, which was built from 1938 on - and I believe is still available in India with a plastic handle - the Tech cannot not be missing here either:
What should one actually write about the Tech? As far as I know, only the head geometry of the Tech was always almost simmilar even not identical. The head was also, as far as I know, always made of coated (I'm not sure if always only nickel or gold plated) zinc die-cast, but with the most different handles, of aluminum, plastic, or brass. The head of the Tech is even today still copied by some Chinese and Indian manufacturers (sometimes better sometimes worse).
The Tech shaves very gently. For comparison with "modern" razors one can compare it with the Feather AS-D2 (which is basically nothing more than a model based on the Tech in terms of head geometry), whereby I consider the Gillette Tech as more close. You can get very thorough with the Tech, even if - with me - not the most lasting shaves:
Here's my tech, sometime from the 1950s - 1960s, because it's not marketed with a heavy "ball end" brass grip:
Later, around 1961, the Tech was very often only available with an aluminium handle, in different versions. These two are from the 1970s:
What should one actually write about the Tech? As far as I know, only the head geometry of the Tech was always almost simmilar even not identical. The head was also, as far as I know, always made of coated (I'm not sure if always only nickel or gold plated) zinc die-cast, but with the most different handles, of aluminum, plastic, or brass. The head of the Tech is even today still copied by some Chinese and Indian manufacturers (sometimes better sometimes worse).
The Tech shaves very gently. For comparison with "modern" razors one can compare it with the Feather AS-D2 (which is basically nothing more than a model based on the Tech in terms of head geometry), whereby I consider the Gillette Tech as more close. You can get very thorough with the Tech, even if - with me - not the most lasting shaves:
Here's my tech, sometime from the 1950s - 1960s, because it's not marketed with a heavy "ball end" brass grip:
Later, around 1961, the Tech was very often only available with an aluminium handle, in different versions. These two are from the 1970s: