What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

PRC Damascus 7/8

 

What a beautiful SR!

 

Thank you

 

Hopefully you can see this? I am having trouble uploading a pic.

At any rate, it is a vintage wostenholm pipe razor, edwin jagger badger brush, klar shaving soap, truefitt and hill ultimate comfort preshave oil, the coolest vintage scuttle i have ever seen, and a beaver woodright 'black rose' aftershave

 

I use a free app called Photogene to adjust the picture. It allows to you export your adjusted picture which and during that process you can resize it. I take square pics, and the 800 pix size seems to work well for posting.

 

I had some time this morning, so I took the Charles Adam "faultless " for a spin. Maggards synthetic, Stirling orange chill and knockoff old spice too. 2 1/2 passes later, I had a real nice DFS!

 

Revisor 8/8

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I use the Tapatalk app on my phone. I just snap the pic and upload it to my post. It's painless. Here's today's example.

 

Robert Williams Purist, shaves as scary as it looks.

 

Champion Cutlery Co

 

I got my first full WTG pass with my SR tonight and this is my second SR shave

SOTD
6/24/16

Pre: Shower, Nivea face wash, light coat of Arko and rinsed it off
SR: Antoni Tadross
Razor: Schick L1
Blade: Chick (6)
Brush: TGN Finest
Soap: Arko stick
Post: cold water rinse, Maggard Alum, witch hazel, Nivea cooling sensitive aftershave balm

I guess I got a little over zealous or maybe I just wanted to see if I could do it. I got a complete WTG pass with my SR tonight, mind you I have a goatee with mustache and I did not shave that off. I did get the rest of my face without a nick or weeper with my SR. I started off with my face prep and applied a light bit of Arko on my face and with wet hands rubbed it in good then rinsed that off to get a nice slick start. I Stropped my razor 30 times and then lathered my face good with the Arko stick thinking I was just going to do my cheeks plus a little more tonight. Well I decided to start on my left cheek tonight and it went so well I moved over to my right cheek and then felt of how smooth my cheeks were. I had stretched my face just right so I had gotten below my jaw line so I thought what the heck and just went for shaving my neck. Got all that done and felt my face it was pretty good and smooth, I could have stopped there and called it a DFS but no! I reached the Schick injector and went ATG with that and a little clean up I was BBS I could not believe it. I was so proud of myself for doing a complete WTG SR pass and one additional pass, and that got me BBS I smiled and I thought I saw Flipper smiling back at me. I did get the slightest irritation in one spot on my neck but that was it! I finished with a cold water rinse and applied the alum, as before being so close I had to keep running water over the alum to get it to slide over my face as it seemed to want to stick. I splashed on some witch hazel and then applied the after shave balm, looked in the mirror and liked what I saw. I then thought to myself don't get over confident with this, if you do it will come back to haunt you!

 

How do you like your stirling brush? I have 4 brushes, i am considering buying another. I am also on the wolf whiskers list. I am really just interested in 1 or 2 great brushes though. Can yoi give me some info on the stirling brush?

 

I dont understand how you all get these great pics. I mean...seriously... these are ridiculously good. This could literally be in GQ magazine.

 

My life as well.

 

Nice work!

 

I jumped on this brush because of the reviews and the price. It has beat my expectations. The knot is stiff enough for bowl lathering, yet soft on the face. I have used it exclusively this month and plan on keeping it in my rotation. It's a great value.

 

Interesting. I am looking at some $200 brushes. I would really rather pay less though.

 

Give it a try and PIF it if you don't like it. You won't be out much and I bet you'll keep it.

 

Maybe material for next years The Shave Den calendar! By the way, I received the TSD calendar last year from my TSD secret Santa and have it hanging at work. I love it. Would encourage everyone to get one if they are produced this year. The photography is great.

 

Well, today I used, for the first time, my recently acquired Henry Sears and Sons SR.

I've cleaned it up, polished the blade and then honed it. I ended up with a satisfying DFS after my usual 2 1/2 passes!