SoS: April 3, 2017 - April 9, 2017

Your Badger Brush is giving us the "Middle Hair Salute". Maybe a final gesture from the badger for him being shaved, for your brush.

 

•Prep: Hot Water & Dove + Men Face and body wash scrub deep clean
•Proraso White Shaving Cream
•Maggard MR5 Handle w/ Maggard V3 Standard Head
•Big Ben Super Stainless (2)
•Razorock Tri Color Plissoft
• Warm Water then Cold Water Rinse
•Old Spice Classic Aftershave
•Nivea Men Post Shave Balm Sensitive
Very nice shave! Got one weeper on the middle of my neck. My blade seems aligned better this time. I also go some irritation on my right cheek. But these Big ben super stainless blades are much sharper to me than my astra greens. But they seemed to do pretty good. So put that blade in my 40s style Gillette super speed. I did whip up a awesome lather with proraso white and spent longer lathering it up on my face. Very cool whip like and slick. Have a good day!​

 

Razor: Gillette Fat Boy Adjustable (G3) 1961
Blade: Personna 74 Tungsten Plus (4)
Brush: Elite Razor Tres Amigos Desert Ironwood Beehive w/Envy White
Soap: Arko
Aftershave: Old Spice Fresh Lime

This is one of my favorite Gillette razors. I had an early 3 pass shave with a good clean up. Everything worked very well. I haven't used Arko soap very much, but I was surprised how well it lathered.
Have to go to a meeting tonight that is why an earlier than usual shave.

 

Cool pic!

 

Wednesday Planned SOTD



Razor: Gillette Toggle (S5)
Blade: Gillette Spoiler (10)
Brush: Rooney 3/2 Super Silvertip
Bowl: Symmetrical Pottery
Pre-Shave Scrub: Ginger Garden Aventus
Pre-Shave Oil: Homemade Lavender\Sandalwood
Shave Soap: PannaCrema Nuàvia Blu
Post: Monster Block Alum
Aftershave: Chatillon Lux Unconditional Surrender

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Doug, one thing I can say about Arko is even if the scent is not ultra-fragrant, this soap will always deliver on the lather!

 

Thanks Doug. Have a great day!

 

Barrister and Mann's latha line le petit chypre soap and aftershave, 1959 Gillette Fatboy worked by Delta echo razors, Gillette silver blue razor blade, Wolf Whiskers custom synthetic brush with black Wolf knot, Pants REI custom lather bowl.

 

Beautiful picture and setup Guy.

 

Thank you Doug!

 

Schick Type M Injector
Schick blade
Maggards 24mm marble handle synthetic brush
Nivea Sensitive shaving cream
Pinaud Clubman aftershave

 

Wednesday's "Anything But Gillette" DE Shave


Dove Men Face Wash
TABAC
Jayaruh TSD Challenge Boar
Scotch & Stowe Fat-Handle
Asco Super Stainless
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayer's Lemon WH
Florida Water

The TABAC Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh TSD Challenge Boar brush. I did two passes the Scotch & Stowe Fat-Handle razor and Asco Super Stainless blade, and I ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse and alum block, I finished off with Thayer's Lemon WH and then Florida Water. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Nice Fatboy

 

-Dovo Bismarck
-Rudy Vey Chubby
-Stirling Port au Prince Mutton
-Stirling Piacenza


Happy Tuesday.

 

That brush looks lush! Is it short and thick, or massively big as the photo makes it look?

 

Thanks very much Jim.

 

04/05/17 Shave of the Day
Face Wash with Detroit Grooming Ludington Glycerin Bar Soap
Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements Sandalwood Shampoo/Conditioning Puck
Cremo Astonishingly Superior Lathering Sandalwood Shave Cream
Cremo Vie-Long Spanish Horsehair Shave Brush
Creative Flame Pottery Stoneware Shaving Scuttle
OneBlade Razor Model 2.0
Feather FHS-10 Hi-Stainless Blade - 4th Shave
RazoRock Alum Stick
Homemade Mandarin Generic Distilled Witch Hazel
Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements Classic Sandalwood Aftershave Cologne with Alum
NIVEA Men Sensitive Cooling Post Shave Balm
Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements Sandalwood Natural Deodorant​

 

I just picked up one of those little Cremo brushes. I wanted to try horsehair & wanted something small for traveling. How do you like it? It seems to get a big lather for you!
STEVE

 

Tonight's shave was with an old Wade & Butcher Straight razor, and a testing of a DeHaven Shake Sharp blade adapter, for a modern Injector blade. @twhite made the adapter. The Dehaven worked well, and its on the mild side, no fault of the blade, just the razor design. The Injector blade was held in tightly and performed well. I did a WTG and ATG on one side of my cheek/jaw. It needed a three pass shave to get BBS.
I did a two pass shave with the Wade & Butcher, WTG and XTG. This blade is a full wedge, very silent, and smooth, like it's not cutting. I even went over the Dehaven area, and obtained a BBS shave, all over. Awesome old razor 150 yr old razor.

Razors- Wade & Butcher Sheffield England. Full Wedge
DeHaven Shake Sharp
Brush- Vintage Oceans Boar
Soap- ARKO/Sandalwood
Aftershave- Pinaud Clubman

 

Finishing off my shower with Clubman Hair-Styling Gel tomorrow. Otherwise, same plan as todays.