BullGoose Shaving Blog — The Making of the Asylum Rx

In the summer of 2013, I set out to create a stainless steel razor that had a thin head profile and that took Artist Club blades. I had always enjoyed the shave of the Cobra Classic but, I did not like the blade holding mechanism or the build quality. I wanted something that had a similarly thin head profile but that securely locked the blade down and that was heirloom quality. How hard could it be? I started out by calling machine shops in the area that specialized in either the aerospace industry or the medical field figuring that anything...