SoS: April 17, 2017 - April 23, 2017

General Thread Housekeeping

This thread closes tonight for transition to the new week. Join in the fun here for the new week:

SoS: April 24, 2017 - April 30, 2017

Have a great afternoon!

 

Always like SOTD (smooch of the day)

 

True, true!

 

TSD Iced Florida Water Soap
Wolf Whiskers Brush
Portland Razor Company Siren
Lucky Tiger
Penhaligon's Endymion Cologne
Have a blessed Sunday!

 

Gillette New LC/Scotch & Stowe Handle
Ladas Super Stainless Blade
Restored Pioneer Boar Brush
My DIY Orange Menthol Soap
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Pinaud Clubman After Shave

Gillette New and Ladas blade for a very good BBS shave with two passes and some touch up.

 

Catie's Bubbles - 322
Wolf Whiskers | Raptor | Black Wolf
Ever-Ready 1912 | Delta Echo | Gem PTFE (1)

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Thanks, Doug.

 

23 April 2017

* Blackbird Polished 101
* Iridium Super
* WSP Manchurian + Oscar11 Amber C7
* Phoenix & Beau Albion
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO


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Razor: Timeless SB w/ TRH5 Dimpled
Blade: Personna Star (1) Made in Great Britain
Brush: El Druida Ebony Zebra w/Manchurian
Soap: Route 66 Cavendish
Aftershave: Floid Blue
Very good shave. I will need a few shaves to get a better feel for this blade. If anyone has any information on this blade please post it. I can't find anything about it.

 

April 23 SOTD:

Razorock Plissoft Brush
Arko
Gillette Fatboy
Stirling Unscented PSB
Clubman AS

 

I'm really loving that Mariana Cottage soap...'41 Ranger Tech with a Voskhod blade, Strong Set pure bristle brush, and Nivea Sensitive balm.

 

4.23.17
sotn

 

BBS-1/Stork :: Saponifico Varesino​

 

April 22
Brush: Omega Synthetic Hi-Brush
Soap: Proraso Green
Razor: FaTip Gold "Gentle"
Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Stainless Green (3)
Lotion: Omega Alum Stick / Pinaud Clubman / Nivea After-Shave

 

Arko Adjustable April!!!!!

April 23

Razor - 1962 (H1) Gillette Slim (3)
Blade - (1)
Soap - Arko
Brush - Wolf Whiskers Custom Silvertip
Post - Alum

Well, that was rather disappointing. After three good nights with the new Derby Premium, with 6 being the best setting followed by 9 then 3, I was all set to have a good shave, if not great, with the Derby Extra. Yes, I know, this blade gets horrible reviews by a majority but honestly, with the right razor, isn't all that terrible. Well, I can tell you, the Slim on 3 is not the right razor. Or else the blade just sucks more than I remembered.

Also a bit disappointing was the lather process. Oh I got plenty of lather worked up for the first pass and yes, the silvertip did give me that luxurious feel I like from it, but when I finished the second pass I was running low on lather and the brush was running dry as well. Quite a different performance than the two synthetics I've been rotating. I'm not about to give up on natural brushes, but I'm leaning little by little toward the synths as an everyday brush.

Two passes and some touch up and I finished with an ok DFS. Nothing to write home about but I could go to work with it in the morning if I was going to work. Since I'm off tomorrow it's even less critical, of course.

The main complaint, though, aside from finish and lather - the feel. This blade was not smooth. Not so bad you'd stop shaving with it but definitely not the smooth feel I was expecting. Hopefully opening the gap will improve things and maybe prove out that this blade really does need some aggression on the part of the razor to help it out. Here's hoping that the Turkish twins perform better tomorrow in every way.

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thanks Steve, that E2 is amazing...
jamie

 

Very Jim!

 

Guys, we have to close this thread!

 

Sorry to cut in on your conversation, just curious if you have tried the newer Catties Bubbles harder soap. He only added a few ingredients, but man that new formula really is good stuff. As far as Tuscan Oud goes, it smells nothing like LPV at all, both are nice scents, but Tuscan Oud is very sweet smelling, where LPV is more of a spicy type of scent.