That Ah Ha moment was very insightful and has had a huge influence on all my current designs. Had I not created the head in two different substrates I never would have had this realization. Both are the exact same tolerances but feel and shave quite differently. Having created more than a few razors by now I have noticed that though a razor's geometry may be exact the material used will greatly affect the feel and quality of the shave.Ī fine example of this is my Stainless DOC Evolution versus my Aluminus DOC Evolution. The weight is key to the precision of the razor. I went with 7075 aluminum to stay true to the original designs lightness but with the added durability of a metal good enough for the aviation industry! 7075 aluminum has a few differences when compared to 6061 aluminum greater strength, durability, and hardness. talk about way ahead of their time! You probably, like most, never even heard of such a thing, maybe even thought that was your own original idea, as I did, lol. Why oh why are such outstanding designs always lost to history? Maybe because it takes a little extra energy to see these creations through and most companies back in the day were all about the bottom line, not interested in recreating the wheel? Maybe the all powerful Gillette had something to do with the burying of the Walbusch or maybe, just maybe it was Merkur this time? I mean Merkur did borrow their Progress handle design from Walbusch.I can only speculate but man oh man, you gotta wonder why this design wasn't explored fully.Īnother fine example of Walbusch's cutting edge innovations is their Adjustable Slant of the very same head design. I was very lucky to discover this razor.in fact, it was a customer that turned me onto this baby, Michael K, and I thank him very much, for my shaves have never been the same since! To say that it performed way above expectation would be the understatement of the the century! The Alpha Ecliptic is based on one of my all time favorite razors, the very, VERY rare German bakelite Walbusch "Humpback" Slant (Walbusch & Sohnes). To get woo woo with our words, we tend to vibrate at the same frequency as this one! but i'm getting ahead of myself.Īnyone who has been following PAA and knows of our secret universe will immediately see that out of all our razors to date this one is just sooooo us. Holding this baby feels something otherworldly a vibration, a radio wave, a connection maybe? Is it a relic from the past or from the future? I'd say it's both. It's pretty safe to say, The Alpha Ecliptic is truly a one of a kind. I predict these beauties sell out fast for sure! Recently we took a poll on what color folks think our new travel scuttle should be and blue won by a HUGE margin! So when Fran asked me a couple weeks back what color I think the next batch of Alpha Ecliptics should be, blue just felt right, and man do they look cool. Who knew it would end up blue? I'll tell ya who, you.Kinda.
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