Schick Eversharp Razor

[bsenn]

Received this razor in a lot of miscellaneous items. If you are a collector of razors, a collector of Eversharp, or both, it's yours (CONUS please, although if elsewhere we could work something out). First post here gets it.

 

Brian

 

[InsaneRN]

That'll go with my Skyline!
Does it take safety razor blades?
(CONUS)

Edited September 27, 2019 by InsaneRN

[bsenn]

That'll go with my Skyline!

Does it take safety razor blades?

(CONUS)

I have no idea what blades it takes, but it doesn't appear to take a standard safety blade. If you want it PM me.

 

Brian

[BaronWulfraed]

It looks like an early version of a Schick INJECTOR model.

 

Single edge blades in a carrier with a slide to push a blade out. Carrier has a tongue/key that is pushed into the razor between the upper-back and lower-front -- this spread the clamping surfaces. One then operated the slide to push a new blade in, with the new blade pushing the old one out the opposite side. Pull the carrier key from razor and the spring force would clamp the new blade in place.

 

https://getsupply.com/blogs/journal/the-humble-history-of-the-injector-razor

[Mr5x5]

Blades for single edge razors are still available online. Single edge work well once you get the angle down. There will be an auction to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation in a couple of weeks on one of the shaving forums and you may find some vintage blades. Just google Saint Sue Auction and you will find it.

[Bibliophage]

Yes, it's a Schick injector razor. You can still buy the blades brand new, although getting the actual keyed injector blade bank can be difficult. Most people buy the new blades and reload their old injector bank.

 

If it doesn't have a blade still in it, then it can be iffy to get the new blade in without damaging anything.

 

PM me with questions and I'll point you to some resources on it. It's still a good razor

 

P.S. - No - it's not single or double edge safety razor - those standard blades won't work. It takes what in the leather industry are called skiving blades. (The leather industry undoubtedly started using them because they were readily available at the time - 80+ years ago - and continued to be available for decades. Same as the building industry using 'boxcutter' single edge blades for scrapers - that's what you'd do when your blade was too dull for shaving anymore (3-6 shaves or so) )

[Jerome Tarshis]

Is this razor supposed to have any connection at all with the well-known manufacturer of mechanical pencils and fountain pens? AFAIK the word "Eversharp" originally referred to mechanical pencils.

 

For that matter, Cross was in large part a manufacturer of mechanical pencils, and mechanical-pencil mechanisms to be installed in other manufacturers' MPs, before it got into ballpoints and, in the early 1980s, the fountain pens we are most likely to know about. The first object sold as a Cross Century was a mechanical pencil. Their 1930s fountain pen was not, by comparison, a major business venture.

[Bibliophage]

Is this razor supposed to have any connection at all with the well-known manufacturer of mechanical pencils and fountain pens? AFAIK the word "Eversharp" originally referred to mechanical pencils.

 

Eversharp acquired the Schick Magazine Repeating Razor company in 1946; prior to that, they were just in the pen and pencil business.

 

However, there were razors made prior to that that were marked EverSharp, which don't appear to be related.