One of the reasons that I enjoy making safety razors is that I get to be creative.  Over the years, I've used the platform to experiment, taking an idea and actually fleshing it out into a real physical product.

That's what KMOD is for.  The Karve Ministry of Debauchery is where the experimental work lives: designs that don't fit the standard lineup, ideas I want to test before deciding if they belong there permanently. Full razors, individual components, accessories, stands, brushes, whatever the idea calls for.  Some of it will stay limited.  Some will move to the core lineup.

Really, what I've been doing all along, it just has a name now.

This is KMOD Alpha: a safety razor with a three-piece barber pole handle.

I've wanted to make one since almost the beginning of Karve.  The barber pole is an icon of the trade, tied to wetshaving long before the first safety razor existed.  But I didn't want to just wrap a simple spiral around a cylinder and call it done.  I wanted something with more going on.

What you're looking at is the result of dozens of sketches, hours of programming, a handful of failed prototypes, and a translator I wrote from scratch to get the machines to cut the pattern exactly the way I wanted them to.

Two colorways are available: a red cap with a blue pommel OR a blue cap with a red pommel.

Handle aside, these razors use the standard Bison head - the same blade geometry, same enclosed blade tabs, same serialized cap.

This handle fits all of our existing stands and the CB and Overlander heads.

The Bison head is designed around one plate. CB and Overlander plates are not compatible with the Bison.

At this time, this razor is only available as a complete razor.

The entire razor is constructed from solid aluminum and is bead blasted for a subtle matte finish.  All parts are then anodized to add color and a long-lasting coating.

The razor is complete and only requires a blade to be ready to use (not included).

Overall length - 96.5 mm (3.8")

Handle length - 89 mm (3.5")

Handle thread - #10-32

Blade gap - 0.71 mm

Blade exposure - 0.06 mm

Mass - 33.5 grams

100% Made in Canada