and asked me about which blades to
use.
Now everyone
knows that razor blades are made of old Navy ships. Just watch the movies and
you’ll see.
So needless
to say, I told him that I only use blades made out of old Destroyer Escorts
that were made in Hingham Shipyard in Hingham, MA between 1942 and 1945. The
best blades were made out of the USS Buckley, a Hingham ship that was scrapped
in ’69.
I stocked up
on those years and years ago and from time to time I manage to locate them via
one of the Double Edged razor clubs.
While DEs made
good blades, they were fairly small ships and the batches from DEs sold off
faster than the batches of blades made by, say cruisers and aircraft carriers.
Of course that is because the latter are much, much bigger than the smaller
DEs. It’s really quite a shame, too but for some reason the steel in the bigger
ships doesn’t seem to make as good of a razor blade as the lowly DE.
The other
thing is that the Hingham Shipyard had its own small steel mill in it and they
seemed to do a better job of making steel that is conducive to being recycled
into razor blades. Someone once said it might have had something to do with the
coking process but he wasn’t sure.
Anyway, the
guy I told to Googled the USS Buckley and found she was built in Hingham and
scrapped in 1969.
It hasn’t
gotten back to me from other sources so that tells me the guy knows how to keep
his mouth shut. Either that or he’s smart enough to know that the Gillette Company
doesn’t buy entire ships at a time to make razor blades out of.
Whatever.
To find out why the blog is pink just cut and paste this: http://piccoloshash.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-feminine-side-blog-stays-pink.html NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE WRITING OF TODAY'S ESSAY
Now that's funny :-)
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