Parker is a well-known Indian company in the traditional wet shaving world. It’s a family owned and operated brand house and have been producing fine shaving tools since from 1973. Parker has a wide range of designs from classical designs to modern ones, open or closed comb heads and even butterfly head designs just like old Gillette safety razors. It’s a hardworking company to satisfy their customers and improving their build quality with each new model.
Shavettes aka disposable/replaceable blade straight razors are great tools with no need for sharpening, honing, stropping or oiling. Just put in a suitable razor blade and you’re good to go. They can easily give extremely close shaves, but can also be very comfortable too in good hands. Shavettes are also great for finding the characteristics of a specific razor blade since everything is more prominent while shaving with shavettes compared to safety razors. They are also great starters in straight razor world. It’s a very clever idea to gain some experience with shavettes before proceeding to real straight razors. As they are much more serious tools.
The Parker PTB Shavette is an elegant looking shavette with stainless steel head and black scales. This razor has an insert which you load the blade into. You then slide the insert back into the blade arm with the blade. You can use any double edge razor blade snapped in half or single-edge barber blades with it. The Parker PTB shavette is a great starter.
Parker Shaving products are handcrafted in India as a result of well engineering and extensive design tests.
Parker PTB Shavette specifications:
- -Overall height : 146 mm
- -Weight : 48.2 gr
- -Handle : Resin, black
- -Razor Arm : Stainless steel