November 2024

Hello Spectre

As you know I am interested in the Colorlamb folding travel razor which you recently received. Have you had a chance to use it yet? Will you be posting a review? I am not happy with the SE disposables I have been buying for travel and this may be an answer. My concern is with all the joints and moving parts that it is not stable while in the shaving configuration. Also, it would be nice to know if it could make it through TSA. In some other threads, I have been told that TSA (airport screening in the U.S.) will confiscate unloaded safety razors.

I would have sent you a PM but you have PM disabled.

Thanks

Tedolph

Spectre  - Probably the easiest way is to find out if its a 2 or 3 piece.
2021 was a 2-Piece, 2022 they re-introduced the 3-Piece.
Murat wasn't forthcoming with the changes from year to year.

I list a some of them that I picked up HERE

Hello Spectre

  As you know I am interested in the Colorlamb folding travel razor which you recently received.  Have you had a chance to use it yet?  Will you be posting a review?  I am not happy with the SE disposables I have been buying for travel and this may be an answer.  My concern is with all the joints and moving parts that it is not stable while in the shaving configuration.  Also, it would be nice to know if it could make it through TSA.  In some other threads, I have been told that TSA (airport screening in the U.S.) will confiscate unloaded safety razors.

I would have sent you a PM but you have PM disabled.

Thanks

Tedolph

Hi Tedolph. As I’m a new member im blocked for PN for 20 days. 

I have received an email notification and did answer by email. It seems like you have not got it. So here is a. Opt of it:

Hello Tedolph,

Thank you for reaching out to me. I did not have had a chance to use it. I will do it at the end of year, when we are going to visit my parents-in-law.

This should leed you to the Aliexpress site

There is a very good German Forum entry, where you have also some additional pictures. Here is the link:https://forum-der-rasur.de/forum/threads/colorlamb-forrester-series-portable-safety-razor.15740/

The entry  translatet:

"Colorlamb is a Chinese brand that has so far attracted attention, if at all, mainly through modern standard Chinese heads with bamboo handles, as well as plastic ladies' razors and the like, some of which are quite nice, but nothing special. “Colorlamb“ as a name at least has the advantage that it is a kind of word and not just meaningless letters strung together (”SNMIRN") - even if it remains the poet's secret what he wants to tell us with ‘colored lamb’ ...

Anyway, when I first saw the product under review here on Aliexpress, my first thought was “What's the pocket knife doing between the razors?”
But no, what comes along with the appearance of a pocket knife in a tool design is actually a safety razor, and perhaps the most innovative in years - at least the most original.
An SE razor for half DE blades, the head folded into the handle when not in use, with a magnetic head lock to boot (the second or third ever, and to my knowledge the first SE) - I've never seen the folding mechanism on a razor before. Correct me if I'm wrong or have missed something.
The whole thing is quite heavy, even if the 150g I mentioned earlier includes the packaging and the 30 blades included, the actual razor will still weigh around 120g. The mechanism locks in closed and open position, and to open or close it you have to press the black button or the back of the head joint.
The fit of the blade in the lower part of the head is perfect, and you need very sharp fingernails - or tools - to remove it again. The built-in magnets hold the head together perfectly.
There is nothing wrong with the blades supplied, as far as one can tell after the first shave - the service life remains to be seen.
The handle shape takes some getting used to, but is not unsuitable per se - at least I had no problems with it. The weight provides the necessary emphasis.
In terms of blade feel, the razor is neither conspicuously aggressive nor particularly harmless, three passes provided the desired baby bottom smoothness without any problems or increased risk of injury, which has lasted until now.

The only negative point to mention is that it rattles. The folding mechanism makes itself heard with every single pull. For the trip, from 3 days on business to Oer-Erkenschwick via “seven-nights-Caribbean” to 4 weeks in the Algarve, this may be acceptable, and it won't bother me with my extensive rotation, where it only gets used twice a year anyway - I wouldn't want it every day."

I hope the helps you for the moment.

As for the TSA... Here in Europe, there would be no issue to take it with you to the plane, as long as you don't have blades with you, everything is fine. The Razor has no sharp edges or so.

I know, the TSA can be sometimes more restrictive so it's difficult to tell. Is there a hotline where one could ask?

Best regards,

Tolga aka Spectre

Thanks Spectre , that was more than I hoped for.