Bowdins

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Wondering if anyone had any information on Bowdins razors company history. I have a Bowdins Concave razor (wonderful shaver) and have been looking for the history of the company but can't find much. I did however come across an interesting post on Reddit about aspects of the manufacture:

"The Bowdins razor was made in Minneapolis Minnesota. I have visited with the grandson, Jerry Bowdin, who lives up near St. Cloud, Minnesota. The razor blanks were stamped out at a machine shop which was next door and then grandpa Bowdin would finish grind them on a single wheel grinder. He also made his own buffing wheels and abrasive compound. His grandson has some of the buffing wheels and still uses the same technique to make the buffing compound. An interesting side note is that the first electric hair clippers was built in Bowdins workshop by a guy named Oster. The body/shell was made from wood."