Gentlemen, show us your bathroom shaving depots/stands/caches!

Razormonsta said:
No blade swaps either. The Derby for a week.

Actually, every time I've used Derby in a dialled out AdjGilly, I've gotten a great shave. I will shut up now :confused:
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Di you hear that people?

RM loves Derby blades!

No wonder he left YKW to start his own forum :laugh:

Actually they are not as bad as some say ...
 
This is why I like this place.....

No way over on YKW would a guy with thousands of blades praise Derby lol
 
Derby's are a good yardstick blade IMHO......to me if it's better than a Derby its above average and if worse its below avg. Again I think depending on the razor the results vary but I've used in 3 or so razors (atleast) and never gotten either a bad or great shave....but just consistantly passable. Which isn't such a bad thing. :)

That said if I had a shedload of GBE's I'd have to check myself before I went reaching to put a Derby into anything other than my wife's leg razor! Haha thank goodness she's here to use up all those 'other' blades of mine.
 
Hmm, better update the picture - there have been some changes with a couple more brushes cleaned up:


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More butterscotch...

... and the Slim of course for the vintage blade face off!
 
I admit that even I have about 200 Derby's floating around. They are a very good 'Standard' blade with usable sharpness and can be quite smooth.

The issue with them came up around 4 years ago when they changed the packaging and the QC slipped a bit. There were a few dodgy blades getting through and the changed packaging got a bad rep for being a lower quality blade.

They don't work well in my DE86 but the Slim & Fatboy (as usual) seem to get the best out of the blade.
 
RM,

Wheres all your stuff? Give us a pic you secretive dark lord!

I think I speak for everyone when I say I expect it not to look entirely dissimilar to something like this:

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:D
 
Nothing wrong with Derby. As I keep saying, most blades are much of a muchness. I'm sure most of it is in the name to start with and then when they're out of production they're suddenly legendary. I mean how is a Dorco ever going to be better than a Polsilver or Super Iridium. That's the equivalent of pitting a WWF wrestler against Ironman. No chance.
 
Nick the Knife said:
RM,

Wheres all your stuff? Give us a pic you secretive dark lord!

I think I speak for everyone when I say I expect it not to look entirely dissimilar to something like this:

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:D
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Hardly such a warehouse is required. We are talking about my blades, not about Mark's Razors, and brushes, and whatever else he decided to get into today as an AD.

I am pretty sure everyone has seen the two cases of GBEs. They live under the bed with a Shoebox and a computer joystick box stuffed full of blades, I then have a bedside drawer or two full of blades also.
 
Razormonsta said:
Hardly such a warehouse is required. We are talking about my blades, not about Mark's Razors, and brushes, and whatever else he decided to get into today as an AD.

I am pretty sure everyone has seen the two cases of GBEs. They live under the bed with a Shoebox and a computer joystick box stuffed full of blades, I then have a bedside drawer or two full of blades also.
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Lol..... That sounds like a lot of blades:D
 
This is where I've stored my rapidly accumulated kit. My mum's work renovated and she brought it home for nothing.

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Top shelf is the currently used and favoured gear.

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Woooo as Crusty the Clown said on a Simpsons episode when he was trying to get get a Japanese endorsement," Me riiiiiiiiiikeeeey!!!"

Nice stand man, haha I was feeling ok about mine until I saw that.....stand-envy! :sad2:
 
Hmm, I'll have to take a pic of the stand in action. For the moment, here's my home-made stand just after I finished building it:

 
That looks really good Mr626, I like the rustic, utilitarian nature of it. Plus super easy for you to upgrade if you wanted to.....extra razor holder here, etc. Nice work.
 
Mong. said:
This is where I've stored my rapidly accumulated kit. My mum's work renovated and she brought it home for nothing.

Top shelf is the currently used and favoured gear.

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Took me a minute to work out what "PIGO" Soap was :laugh::laugh:

Must be nice to not have to worry about small wandering hands. Blades on the bench is unthinkable around here!
 
SmallYetDeadly said:
Took me a minute to work out what "PIGO" Soap was :laugh::laugh:
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That would be my poor handwriting!

Must be nice to not have to worry about small wandering hands. Blades on the bench is unthinkable around here!
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I'm enjoying being at that stage too!
 
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