SoS: June 5, 2017 - June 11, 2017

nice looking brush you got there.......

 

Tuesday's Shave


Nivea Men Face Wash
VDH Luxury Shaving Soap
Jayaruh #182
Gillette Super 84
New Improved
Rockwell Swedish Stainless
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayer's Lemon WH
Florida Water AS

The VDH Luxury Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #182 Synthetic brush. I did the first pass with the Gillette Super 84 razor and Rockwell Swedish Stainless blade and second/clean up pass with New Improved, 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 AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Great photo Guy. How do you find that bowl for building a lather? I've only used mine once without much success.

 

Thanks Doug. Hate to admit it but for me, all 4 TDG bowls lather equal if not better than the Symmetrical bowls at half the price

 

Thanks Jim.

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Planned Shave for 5 June 2017



Ralf Aust 5/8
@Drygulch Leatherworks black "45 series"
ToBS House Super Badger
D.R. Harris - Marlborough Shaving Stick
Alum
D.R. Harris - Marlborough Cologne Water


Have a great evening!

 

Tonight's shave was with a Japanese razor. I had a super smooth 2 pass shave, like a hot knife through butter. This left me BDBS with zero issues. I still have a fondness for Japanese blades. Beautifully made, and great steel used.

Razor- T.F.Hairop. Barbers First quality.
Soap- Stirling Spice
Brush- B400 By Tom
Aftershave- Florida Water

 

Y2?
How's comes two razors?

 

I know. It is weird. Especially when one is an adjustable. However, I just came into this lovely New Improved, and I wanted to give it some face time. It is a fine shaver. I believe it is the kind of razor my Dad shaved with most of his life. I am looking into having it replated. I am doing the two razor thing through Friday.

 

June 5, 2017

Jamie's MENTHOL MONDAY NIGHT SHAVE..

1. Hot Shower, Palmolive Original Bar Soap - Reuzel Shampoo
2. PAA ICE pre shave soap.
3. PAA LIME ICE SAGE (LISa) Soap.
4. SEMOGUE 1350 with suribachi bowl.
5. THAYERS After Shave eXtra Cooool
6. PAA LISa after shave/cologne.
7. PAA Frost Byte after shave balm.

 

June 5

Head & Face-Fine Shave +

Minimal prep-cold water, Thayers, face lather

Astra SP

The shavette is new and so far it's great! It was only $9 shipped. If you like shavettes, it's a great inexpensive option.

 

SOTD Monday Night

Weber 3pc. S/S Polished Head 85 mm Classic Handle
Wilkinson Sword Classic DE Blades White Container
Whipped Dog 30/65mm Silver Tip Badger Black & White Marbled Resin Handle
Route 66 Bay Rum Shaving Soap
Arletta's Mug II {Daughter's Cobalt-Blue Mug}
Stirling Bay Rum Pre-Shave Oil
Stirling Soap Co. Bay Laurel


WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard)


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Tuesday planned SOTD

Schick B1 razor
Pantarei brush
B&M 42 shaving soap
B&M 42 aftershave
B&M 42 edt
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Tomorrow will the first time using this Intergalactic offering from Barrister and Mann. This may be my go to summer set up.

 

Thank you! They are great shavers, just like an Aristocrat.

 

hello fello shavers,monday night shave? yep one day growth.
usual prep ,proraso white preshave,warm towel.
canadian prewar tech,astra sp,vulfix pure badger.
razorock lime soap,alum,pinaud lime sec.
awesome smooth 2 pass combination shave,dfs+ no drama.
love these gillettes;red tip shave yesterday,tech today.0 irritation.
have a great day,gary

 

Great setup ! Cool brush.
Just so you know, everyone shares their daily shaves on a weekly thread. It's a way to consolidate all our shaves in to one thread instead of a bunch of individual ones. Feel free to post here :

http://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/sos-june-5-2017-june-11-2017.56182/#post-1260676

 

Yes I added a dab of TSD M-Bomb (just a tiny bit! )

 

June 2017!!!

Trials and Tribulations

June 5

Razor - 1959 (E4) Gillette Fatboy (6)
Blade - (2)
Soap - Arko
Brush - Semogue 620
Post - Alum

Well, today ended up with some good and bad to it. I worked an extra day today to cover for a sudden hospitalization of another manager last night. Worked a different store than my own and forgot there is no wifi available there. So my laptop was essentially worthless. However, I had a fantastic burger and onion rings for lunch, courtesy of the Area Manager I was helping out. A Hawaiian BBQ burger, cooked just short of medium, add sliced ham and pineapple, bacon and BBQ sauce all on a pretzel bun......it's amazing I stayed out of the hospital from the fat. Especially with the hand breaded onion rings. All from a place here called Dave and Tony's. So there's that.

Time to shave tonight and I remembered to soak the Semogue 620. That's a good thing. Then I lathered with it for the first pass and it did fine, but was a bit thin on the second lather. I wouldn't have gotten a third lather out of it if I had wanted. That's from face lathering the Arko stick. Quite disappointing, actually, as I always liked that brush. No difference in technique on the lathering from my synthetics or other boars and badger. Just not a high performance.

The good - two passes to DFS and no blood or other problems. Slight irritation from the blade, but with the performance improving at 6 on the Fatboy it bears out my impression that the blade isn't the sharpest. Still smooth, though.

Hope you had a good start to your week.

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5/Jun/17

SOTN

Chemicals
Pannacrema Pure02 DFS Special Cream
Portugal 4711 Skin Milk

Mechanicals
Feather AS-D2 All Stainless DE
Feather Stainless DE Blade
Danny Schulman horse hair custom made to my design - super chubbly-wubbly feel - jeepers look at the size of that brush!!

 

Good Morning Everyone! SOTD 06/06/17

Gillette Ball End Tech
Personna (2)
Synthetic
Arko
Cold Water Rinse, Alum Block
Gillette Cool Wave A/S

Another Great Shave!

Have A Great Day Everyone!