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  • Razor: unidentifiable branded 13/16 1949 Berlin Airlift Souvenir razor

    Was so happy this came up in my rotation, this may be my favorite straight of all, and the brand mark is totally unidentifiable to me.

    Smooth and easy, gorgeous, square point DFS.

    Also this house of mammoth embrace is really good, and I like the lightly fruity smell.

    Running out of Fine Barber Blue and debating moving on to my Proraso Green next or getting more of the Fine, it’s such a bracing aftershave, great sensation to finish a shave

    Best of all, boost for lemmy just downloaded so I can use Lemmy decently now







  • Blade anatomy - this seems the most complete and correct image I can find of it. Point is also called the tip, tang is also called tail, sometimes people confuse the tang and shank. Some razors are shoulderless (makes sharpening easier), and a shoulder is different from a stabilizer though they’re often mixed up because they’re next to each other. This image actually calls the stabilizer the shoulder - the shoulder is the boundary line between shank and stabilizer or blade, the stabilizer is the space between that second line above the heel and the shoulder. Often razors have no stabilizer, occasionally they’re shoulderless too, you can’t have a stabilizer without a shoulder though.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/deR5RZJmfYoakpZu8

    I think you’re referring to the shank.