Thread: Bottom dial Fat Boy

Originally Posted by JP5

Nice find! Looks like it was taken care of.
I didn't know they made a bottom dial. Is that before the top dial? I need to practice with my Slim some more. It always seemed aggressive compared toy plain Merkur though.

If you go to F-4BottomDial you can check out the various bottom dials, fat boys and toggles by using the "Razors" drop down menu. The production bottom dial was only made in the fourth quarter of 1960 hence the F4 date code. There were changes to the various model 195 Gillettes over time as well as prototypes. It gets somewhat confusing when it comes to when and how long these were made.

Bob

Nice score.
Love my fatboy. It was the only razor I used since I started shaving circa 1985. I got it cleaning out a basement doing home improvement. It was NIB. I grabbed it because it was just like my dads. Until I started down the rabbit hole with straights.
The Fatboy loaded with "cringe" grocery store blades. Was all I used except for my Army time when bic disposables were the only option.
I have a blade sampler coming from Amazon. Going to revisit my old pal with some new steel loaded in it. Just to find my new preferred combo for when I don't have time to use a straight.
Ken

I'd recommend the Silver and Blue. I found them to work great in any DE I put them in. Here is what I have left of my DE and SE collection...

I got all the DE's made in the first quarter of 1963. My birth year. Now, that's only 5 of them (including the Travel Razor in the red case) but I got them. Plus 2 SE's and an Old and New.