07-28-2021, 04:38 AM
I've always liked the Tech heads. I had a Travel Razor with worthless aluminum stubby handle that was awful. And I recently acquired a Parker 4-pc travel razor, but didn't like the head at all. So I put a Gillette Travel Tech head on the 2-pc relatively heavy Parker handle... and now I like the razor a lot! I like it because the weight of the Parker handle is a huge improvement and the Tech head geometry is superior to the Parker. It says "Gillette" on the zamac cap, but it's really a Gillarker or maybe a Parkellette razor. "King C. Parker," maybe? It's now become the Official Baxendale Family Travel Razor (I liked it so much, I'm putting together another one for my boy). Here's a pic, complete with gorked up color balance thanks to fluorescent light; let's make believe I did it on purpose for artistic effect:
![[Image: TqBiv90.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/TqBiv90.jpg)
What successful creations have YOU assembled from bits and pieces of different razors... and why do you like it?
Any razor where you've swapped parts would qualify.
Post pics!
- Bax
![[Image: TqBiv90.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/TqBiv90.jpg)
What successful creations have YOU assembled from bits and pieces of different razors... and why do you like it?
Any razor where you've swapped parts would qualify.
Post pics!
- Bax
08-01-2021, 06:24 PM
I’ve been toying with this combination on and off for a while now. The head is from my Contract Tech and the handle is from my Canadian Tech. This is a case of the sum being greater than it’s parts. I find that the handle provides better grip and balance than does the aluminum ball end handle. Shaves with this razor are always outstanding. I could get by with just this one razor if I had to. But I’m sure glad I don’t have to!
![[Image: ZZoupnz.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/ZZoupnz.jpg)
08-10-2021, 08:49 AM
I don't know if this counts as a Frankenrazor, but I'm putting together a couple pieces from Above The Tie. I got a polished Calypso handle, a standard polished cap, and a copper base plate. It's more or less to kind of mimic would they call the Mixed Metal Windsor. I already have the base plate, I'm just waiting for the handle and cap to arrive which so far should be arriving this week.
08-20-2021, 01:29 AM
Some years ago I combined the handle of my Yuma with the head of my Merkur 985CL to make the Franken-nought-four...
![[Image: Franken0403.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/Agnus/RazorsAndStuff/Franken0403.jpg)
The fact that I had all but forgotten about it until I saw this thread is a good indicator on how it shaved... not bad at all (according to old notes), but not enough of an improvement to keep using.
![[Image: Franken0403.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/Agnus/RazorsAndStuff/Franken0403.jpg)
The fact that I had all but forgotten about it until I saw this thread is a good indicator on how it shaved... not bad at all (according to old notes), but not enough of an improvement to keep using.
08-28-2021, 03:18 PM
(08-10-2021, 08:00 AM)Bax Wrote: Waitaminute!In point of fact, the Devil never has used the Metric System. The Devil's tool is the Decimal System; the Devil's agent for imposing the Decimal Sytem was a 17th century Englishman, John Wilkins, who was the chief proponent of universalizing the Decimal System. What pushed that over the line was a decree of Napoleon Bonaparte, then abrogating the title of Emperor, who adopted a bastardized system that he himself found unusable, and Napoleon un-decreed it in 1812, but the damage had been dome. The Metric System is based on a faulty calculation of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator – a measurement that we all of course grasp by intuition – of which the meter was wrongly supposed to equal one ten-millionth, the natural fraction that every child knows from birth.
You're in the midwest using metric?
What strange magic is this?
The Romans, who has a fraction system based on 12, as well as many other Great Civilizations that preceded John Wilkins's birth, partially or completely adopted the duodecimal manner of counting, giving us units of time based on the number 12, and points on the compass that are multiples of 12. See Superiority of duodecimal (link)
And everybody knows that hens lay eggs in multiples of six; so packaging eggs ten at a time results in left-over eggs as each package is filled, and causes the mother to see her children separated, the ultimate cruelty.
10-13-2022, 05:29 AM
Thanks, Mel.
I've spent the last 14 months considering, cogitating, and ruminating upon the duodecimal system. I have decided that, despite the potential for causing stress for chickens as described above, I am unable to fathom how the duodecimal system works! Fathom? That's 6 feet. So two fathoms is duodecimal, which equals two sailors. So each sailor must be a decimal. See? It just keeps getting MORE confusing!
![[Image: FGPiXuo.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/FGPiXuo.jpg)
- Bax
I've spent the last 14 months considering, cogitating, and ruminating upon the duodecimal system. I have decided that, despite the potential for causing stress for chickens as described above, I am unable to fathom how the duodecimal system works! Fathom? That's 6 feet. So two fathoms is duodecimal, which equals two sailors. So each sailor must be a decimal. See? It just keeps getting MORE confusing!
![[Image: FGPiXuo.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/FGPiXuo.jpg)
- Bax
10-13-2022, 12:17 PM
Very cool razor, Toby!
I confess I was looking for a longer handle, though.
My daughter played the piccolo when she was in High School, and it was over a foot long... I was all excited to see what it was going to look like with a 12+ inch handle!
Alas, the pics showed a short-handled razor that couldn't have been more than a 2-3 inches long!
:-)
- Wise Guy Bax
P.S. Now I'll go take the mud tires off my Prius, and silently weep that it really wasn't a monster truck after all. :-(
I confess I was looking for a longer handle, though.
My daughter played the piccolo when she was in High School, and it was over a foot long... I was all excited to see what it was going to look like with a 12+ inch handle!
Alas, the pics showed a short-handled razor that couldn't have been more than a 2-3 inches long!
:-)
- Wise Guy Bax
P.S. Now I'll go take the mud tires off my Prius, and silently weep that it really wasn't a monster truck after all. :-(
10-13-2022, 02:48 PM
(10-13-2022, 12:17 PM)Bax Wrote: Very cool razor, Toby!
I confess I was looking for a longer handle, though.
My daughter played the piccolo when she was in High School, and it was over a foot long... I was all excited to see what it was going to look like with a 12+ inch handle!
Alas, the pics showed a short-handled razor that couldn't have been more than a 2-3 inches long!
:-)
- Wise Guy Bax
P.S. Now I'll go take the mud tires off my Prius, and silently weep that it really wasn't a monster truck after all. :-(
Um,... FaTip Piccolo!

You can leave the mud tires, but you have to crush very small cars.
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