Originally Posted by
Obie
Gentlemen:
This morning the angels held hands and blew me kisses as I shaved with the Gelle Freres New American razor. What an incredible shaver. The razor is a half hollow 11/16 with a barber's notch. The past few months I have shaved mostly with hollow razors — Puma, Schlieper, Schmidt, Schulze, LouPer, Thiers-Issard and others — all emitting the delicious scraping sound. Love them all. This one, since it is half hollow, was on the quiet side, which took a few moments to get used to, but I was already in love with it. I also have several Sheffields, but have not used them during this time. But the shave . . . Glorious. The brush was Saville Row 24 mm silvertip and the soap Martin de Candre and the strop Neil Miller shell cordovan. It's a sweet world, gentlemen, and it was a fine morning in the shave den with the Gelle Freres New American. Thanks to my good friend Martin, now I also know something about the history of this intriguing razor.