Vintage Gillette Red Tip 1959 complete restoration, by Razor Emporium. Looks brand new!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- This video shows a 1959 Gillette Red Tip Super Speed, before and after getting a complete restoration from Razor Emporium. This Arizona based company offers vintage razors and accessories for sale, and has great services for repairing your special razor.
This razor was given to me on thanksgiving 2015 by my father in law. It was his fathers, and it had been kept in a drawer since his fathers death in 1974. He knew I was into wet shaving and gave it to me for display or use. I plan on using it now that it is like brand new. Razor Emporium did a revamp service for $65, which included complete restoration and repeating with polished nickel.
If you are interested, check out Razor Emporium on the web at..
www.razorempori...
They have great customer service and keep you informed through email as the restoration steps are completed.
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Rewatched this... god I miss all that sounds and effects you used back in the days. Badass looking Ken stole John McClanes shirt 😀
Wow! 50th video. Look how far you are now compared to then. 😎👍🏼💈👌🏼
DE Razor Shaving I know...lol
Kensurfs 😎👍🏼💈
That baby looks factory fresh, Ken. Beautiful work RE!
Dirty Hairy Thank you👍
I never expected you to have tattoos. Really cool!
Your father-in-law's Dad shaved with that razor for 15 years. My theory as to why Gillette and other safety razor manufacturers originally discontinued these was because you'd buy one razor and usually wouldn't have to buy another one. Hence the switch to cartridge razors. I see so many surviving razors on eBay and elsewhere that I have to wonder how Gillette never went out of business. They were just made so well and like yours could be revamped without any issues. There were probably some people who purchased multiple razors back then, but others probably didn't. Anyway, I've seen this video a plethora of times. Nice restore!
I bought one of these red tip Gillette’s off EBay, I love the shave I get from it.
David Dahl 👍👍💈💈
Incredible work by RE. Beautiful looking razor.
What an overhaul. Beautiful razor
Thanks Jeremy, they really did a great job👍
fantastic restoration there! it looks like it just came out the factory brilliant :-)
new subscriber here loving the videos mate
Thank you very much. I used to have the Geordie accent. I was born in Newcastle but came to USA when I was 8.
Kensurfs thats awesome mate i live in the walker area next to byker haha its a small world :-) Im just starting off on using saftey razors at the age of 32!
At the moment im using a wilkinson sword classic so that i find my feet a bit but im enjoying it at the moment
Hi Ken ! I recently subscribed to your page after looking for a video regarding razor replating. I have an old '58 Red Tip that is sorely in need of restoration. Thanks to you and your excellent videos, including the one where you used your Red Tip with a Nacet blade (one of favorite blades!), I will be sending my razor out for a complete restoration. Take care, and keep up the great work !
Rob
FenderFan1964 Thank you👍👍💈💈
My Red Tip is an E3 date code too Ken!
Amazing.
Dev9172 Thank you👍👍💈
I got one from JT,it's somewhere between your original and the revamped. Shaved today using a gillette blade but was not impressed. Put the blade in a FatBoy @5 and was way better....
talega1 Fat boy I like better too👍💈
kensurfs. I want to ask you a question? I am considering to buy a red tip. I have a slim adjustable. so how aggressive is the redtip in comparison with a slim. I mean on what setting of the slim would kinda match the redtip.
neil dsouza it would be closer to the higher settings. Once mastered the Red Tip is great. I would say it is less aggressive than the Muhle R41
mate... maybe a tour of the road map on the body tour next ?
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looking to have my abc replated in silver from the emporium, going to cost me a great bit more than what you paid, haha!
ColdMourning I bet it will look awesome though.👍👍💈💈
I'm going to send in my Fatboy for a tune up service. It squeaks and feels stiff when I twist the bottom dial. Their service price has gone up to $40 for Adjustables but the razor is gonna last several more decades 👍
ElementalHeroJoe 👍👍
ElementalHeroJoe Did the service get finished?
Let’s just get this out of the way, highly caffeinated I’m gonna call bull shit on, I think you said that was your grandfathers razor correct? You just received his razor that passed down to your father in law then to you by then it was BEAT, so you got a complete restoration and it’s better than brand new , that’s exciting, you’re allowed to shake all you want! That is beautiful
Wow!
Thanks Dave 👍