What are you waiting on to arrive...?

Ah. My PAL adjustable made it to town, too. I'll have something to look forward to tonight.

 

Same here!

 

Nuavia red, blue and green soaps.
I just came home from England Friday with a L'occitane Cade bowl and Plisson brush in the bag, recieved a Barbaros razor in the mail Saturday and a Boellis Panama 1924 bowl today. I think I'm done buying for the rest of 2016... unless I find a nice razor

 

The Nuavia jars are visually appealing and look nice in the SOTD pics, and have heard people rave about the performance and scents. I wonder how the Nuavia differs from the regular Pannacreama white line.

 

Beautiful razor!

 

Muhle R89 Grande. Ive been getting the itch to try a Muhle for a while now and I thought, "why not?"

 

Pretty excited about this one - a BRW handle.

Some info from the ad/seller:

"The handle
"one of a kind custom safety razor handle made by Robert 'Cooncatbob' Smith of Bob's Razor Works aka BRW.
I commissioned Bob to make me a modified version of his 'improved' handle.
The result is a handle that is approximately 3 1/4 inch long and 7/16th in diameter.
It is made from brass and is nickel plated.

The handle was complete by Bob on 12/19/2011 and has been a safe queen ever since.
After Bob's passing, I never had the heart to use it and have only admired it ever since. I am hoping it finds the home of someone who can truly appreciate Cooncatbob's work.

The head
I am including an unused open comb head from a Merkur 1904 which is also plated in nickel to match the handle.
I purchased the 1904 Merkur when I bought the cooncatbob handle.
At the time, Merkur was plating them in nickel to match the 1904 theme. Once Merkur came out with the closed comb 1904, they changed the plating to chrome so they could take the chrome closed comb heads off the factory line instead of making separate batches of nickel plated heads. "

​

 

Very nice razor with a great history

 

THAT is a gorgeous handle. Use it in honor of his memory!

 

The wife gave the green light to get a few things I've had my eye on for awhile. The all bakelite Clix. Stetson Country cologne and aftershave. 1960s Avon Bath Oil for Men (don't judge, it's quite manly smelling) and the matching a/s lotion.

 

It's funny that Bobs "improved" handle was a modified Goodfella handle, and this modified "improved" handle looks exactly like the original Goodfella - My head just imploded

 

I will... Its days as a 'safe queen' is - for good or worse - over and it will be put to work.
It's one handle I will certainly treasure owning.

 

Ordered a tub of Wickham Super Smooth Club Cola this morning. Looking forward to checking out scent and performance, they are discontinuing the SS line of soaps to make room for the new 1912 formula.

 

I asked the seller, the original owner, and got this back and thought it was pretty interesting:

"I was wanting to purchase a Goodfella razor but didn't like the diminutive size.
I found Bob's work and noticed his 'improved' handle was extremely similar to the Goodfella. I contacted him and asked him if he would make me an improved handle with less notches because I wanted a Goodfella that was larger and heavier. He agreed to do it. That's also why I paired it with the 1904 head, to give it the aesthetics of the Goodfella, which I really liked. That's what makes this particular handle so rare. no other handle made by Bob is exactly the same as this one. the original Goodfella is about 3 inches long and 3/8ths in diameter and this handle is 3 1/4 inches long and 7/16ths in diameter"

 

He would probably like the new 2015 Goodfella then. According to Gifts&Care its handle is larger than the original one, sold at the time Bob made this, maybe even around the same size (I can't be bothered to find the right mm to inches conversion on google). The Goodfella handle is SS though

 

Sexy! Very sexy, I like it.

 

I'm waiting on Palmolive Menthol SC, Proraso Blue SC, 3 packs of Treet blades (Black/New Steel/Silver) and a Maggard Synthetic brush.

 

Thought I'd try another wedge.

 

A vintage GEM single-edge. It'll be in the mailbox this afternoon.

 

Cant Believe it...Just got this NOS French 5/8th for £23.00 English + Local Postage..


Billy..