![]() “One thousand one hundred seventy-three grams,” Valle interjected. he did a five-year stint in the federal penitentiary for cocaine-” Trichter looked at Valle and said, “You can step in if you want, but I’m gonna tell your story.” He went on, “So. It had a bendable blade, curved like a scythe. Valle held up a handmade straight razor whose handle was studded with plastic gems. ![]() “It’ll be the first line of my obituary,” he said. The purchase was more about fame than about fortune. So I probably overpaid.” He wore a made-to-measure suit over a monogrammed shirt. “It couldn’t be like a vulture came in and picked it up,” Trichter said. Morgan, bought the barbershop two years ago, after the Vezza family, its owner for about seventy-five years, announced during the pandemic that they were closing it. ![]() We’ll be the test kitchen,” Trichter said. It took seven years.” Joel Valle, the barber, had constructed his first prototype-“a bendable razor blade!”-in prison, for the cost of a can of soda. “When Gillette came out with the Mach 3, they put seven hundred fifty million into manufacturing and development. Electric, disposable, Harry’s, Schick, safety, straight: “It’s a three-billion-dollar industry!” Jonathan Trichter, the businessman, said. Schick, like Wilkinson, is just a ghost name now, to forever wander the world cohabitating a hodgepodge of brands here and there, now and then, to the eternal puzzlement of enquiring shavers, or as long as their trademarks endure.At Astor Place Hairstylists the other day, a businessman and a barber sat around talking razors. All the seller needs to do is a little seeding. Even though they are utterly worthless, apparently many customers still give them 5-star reviews, for a simple reason: everyone else gave them glowing reviews. They are apparently still making these counterfeit BICs, and selling them abroad. The printing on the packages was perfect. ![]() There was one blade I bought in China that was even worse than the Flying Eagle carbon steel double edge blades: BIC. The Chinese Gillette blades are even more expensive because of the famous name and even worse. They are the most precisely calculated mediocre blades, just barely useable enough for someone naïve enough to buy. And especially if you are in China, as they are way overpriced in stores like Tesco. While we're in the general vicinity, please do not bother trying the Chinese Schick blades in the name of adventure and open-mindedness, even if you are in China. On the other hand, since I happened upon the Flying Eagle carbon steel double edge blades in a stationery/arts and crafts store, it is just possible these blades were never intended for shaving, which every Chinese knows of course, perhaps. The BigSpender Theory of the Utility of Making an Awful Razor Blade: If you sell someone a truly awful razor blade, they will gladly pay extra for your mediocre blades, which they will think are fantastic by comparison because they can actually shave with them without doing a 24-pass shave. I never did determine exactly why any company would make such a truly awful blade it is a Chinese company, I was in China, China is inscrutable, and if you ask the Chinese a direct question of even the slightest sensitivity you rarely get a direct answer.īut I have come up with a hypothesis regarding why a manufacturer of good razor blades would also make at least one terrible razor blade: One day, try shaving with a Flying Eagle carbon steel double edge blade. You, my friend, must have led a protected, charmed life.
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