L'Essor Le Supreme
| The L'Essor Le Supreme, with its industrial/steampunk design is IMHO one of the best looking razors around. It's head and twist knob are made of brass, handle is aluminium and as a result its very "head heavy". The adjustment mechanism pushes the safety bars downwards and out in a scissors like action - very awesome to look and play with. I'm not sure what the designer had in mind but a very strange anomoly with it is that it has different blade gaps per side. I'm not sure why one would need that in an adjustable. Per the instructions - start on the lower setting for the first pass and then turn the razor around on the more open side for the second pass. (A scan of the original instructions in French are towards the bottom of the page.) All but one of the Le Supremes that I have seen online have the diamond knurling and the Hol Pif's have the straight knurling. As a guess, the one with the straight knurling is an earlier model. A bit about L'Essor. The original design was a Hol Pif. Hol Pif were bought out by L'Essor and who in turn were bought out by Gibbs.
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This is the other, that I believe to be an earlier version that I referred to. The knurling is similar to that of a Hol'Pif. |
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| How does it shave? Even at its most open it's a mild shaver. I generally use mine with the topcap the "wrong" way around. It evens out the gaps. |
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This is a scan of the original instructions.
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