Pick a Country Week 12/3-12/9

Why, yes, it is time for another Theme Week. This one is Pick a Country Week, and will run from Monday the 3rd to Sunday the 9th.

Here's the way we play the game, you have several options:
1 - Pick a country and try to center your entire shave hardware (razor, blade, soap, etc.) around that country for the entire week
B - Pick a different country every day and try to center your entire shave hardware around that country
Third - Just go through all your stuff and try to use as many different items for as many different countries as you can.

Please be sure to identify the country of origin for each item used. I'm interested to see just how many countries we get our shave goodies from!

Have fun!!

 

Steve, I don't know how I could do it. I cannot focus on just one country because my razors are from either the US or Germany, my blades are from several different countries, and the soaps, creams, and aftershaves are from almost every imaginable country on Planet Earth!

 

What would a contestant win if he used, say, a Lemurian four piece clopen comb multiblade adjustable with unobtanium blades from Upper Slobobia, shave cream skimmed from the belly of the Guatemalan butt-eyed tree skink, a unicorn-hair brush and used Nostradamus' skull as a shaving bowl? Not that I have a reason for asking or anything.

 

Ya know, I had it all figured out until you had to go and mention the Nostradamus skull shaving bowl.


**mumble, mumble** shuffling off, head down, to try and come up with appropriate prize

 

I think all my SoS posts are basically the same - several countries are included at once!

 

I may be able to do England and Germany for the most part, I think I'm hooped on the brushes end except for my Simpsons for an England day. I should invest in a Thater brush lol.

 

It is quite possible,example:

My SOTD from Sunday:

Yuma,Horsebrush 6,Derby,Arko,everything from Turkey

 

Lather Bowl - China
Cream - C.O. Bigelow - Italy
Brush - 24mm silvertip set in Red Mallee Burl - the wood is from Australia
Razor - Parker 80R - ???
Blade - Astra SP - ???

 

Razor - Parker - India, possibly
Blade - ASP - Russia is my guess

 

Monday
Thater 4292/6,2 band ,fan and Merkur Futur-Germany
Perma-Sharp Super-I think this blade is made in Russia for the Turkish market
Myrsol Aqua De Limon-Pretty sure this one's from Spain
444-Portugal

 

Polsilver Blade- Poland
Merkur Slant -Germany
Williams soap -America- Dettol Shaving Cream- India- Superlather
Old Spice Lime Aftershave- India
Omega Boar Brush - Italy
Marvy Rubber mug- America

Always considered myself an Internationalist, now I shave like one. Nice shave today.

 

Guess what: I'm going Dutch!

Monday:
Soap: De Vergulde Hand stick
Brush: De Vergulde Hand (vintage)
Blade: Max Weber (Dutch NOS)
Music: The Nits (Dutch)
Razor: Gillette Flare Tip Rocket (England - haven't got a Dutch razor)

 

Let's see what I can figure out for tomorrow:

Brush: #6 Horsehair (Turkey)
Razor: Super Speed (US)
Blade: Shark (Egypt)
Cream: Aquabarba (Tunisia)
AS Balsam: Diana Sport (Austria)
AS Splash: Alt Innsbruck (Austria)

Not bad - 5 countries represented in tomorrow's shave!

 

Coffee: Kenyan AA - Kenya, obviously
Soap: Vintage Blade house brand - I believe this is a re-branded English soap
Brush: Omega 10098 - Italy
Razor: '55 Red Tip - USA
Blade: Astra SP - Russia?
WH: Dickenson's - USA
AS: Pinaud Clubman - Essence from France, blended in USA
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own - USA

 

Tuesday:

Shavemac 167,2 band,fan-Germany
DB Brush Scuttle-USA
Feather Preshave-Japan
Speick Shave Stick-Germany
Pils 101 NE-Germany
Feather Blade-Japan
Thayer's Lavender WH-USA
Speick Splash followed with Speick Aftershave Balm-Germany

 

Mostly American:

Razor-Weber with bulldog handle/ARC head
Gillette Platinum Blade (probably no American, but Gillette started there, so partial credit?)
PC Woodworks and Pens Silvertip Brush with Snakewood Handle
TSD Burmese Wood Soap
Master's Lilac Vegetol Splash
Baxter of California AS Balm
Coffee-Sumatra (Indonesia, most definitely not American, but Obama lived there once so partial credit?)
tunes-Duke Ellington (The American Mozart IMHO)
a most satisfying shave

 

Tuesday:
Soap: De Vergulde Hand Extra Fris (yep, DVH again, but a different flavour )
Brush: De Vergulde Hand (vintage)
Blade: Max Weber (Dutch NOS)
Music: Doe Maar (Dutch, you might translate it as"Go Ahead")
Razor: Gillette Flare Tip Rocket (England)

 

Tuesday Shave

American Shave

Gillette Old Type replated
Nancy Boy Signature Shave Cream
Nancy Boy Aftershave Balm

We all experiment with different brushes, creams, blades , aftershaves etc. and sometime we come upon that product which makes you say , Wow, game changer ! Although I have read many very positive reviews about NB shave cream over the years I am just now using it and really am a bit amazed how good it is. Its used with a brush by some wetshavers but I use it as intended as a brushless and it excells in slickness, scent, protection and post shave skin care. Never thought I would say this but I am now a Nancy Boy Club member, permanently signed up on the website . They also sell a cologne called " Butch", I'm intrigued.

 

Mixed bunch of countries again for Wednesday:

Brush: #6 Horsehair (Turkey)
Razor: Super Speed (US)
Blade: Shark (Egypt)
Cream: Aspis Ice Rain (Bulgaria)
AS Balsam: Svoboda (Russia)
AS Splash: Barbon (Hungary)

 

When I finally found time to shave I had forgotten all about theme week. But this is what I used:

Merkur HD - Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Derby Blades - Türkiye Cumhuriyeti
Muhle Silvertip Brush - Bundesrepublik Deutschland
TBS Pre Shave Oil - England
TBS Maca Root Cream - England
Speick Aftershave - Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Proraso White Aftershave Balm - Repubblica Italiana