What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

A Joe Chandler 7/8th 1/4 hollow
Poraso Green soap
General boar brush
Clubman aftershave

Awesome shave, I love California redwood scales.

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A top tier belter of a shave today. My Lund was at the top if it’s game.

Hot water preparation
AOS Lavender PSO
Mike’s Natural Soaps Hungarian Lavender
Savile Row 3824
Lund 6/8
T&H Classic After Shave Balm



Happy shaving - Karl

 

Jwest Niles half hollow

 

13/16 R. SUTCLIFFE - SHEFFIELD RAZOR with Masonic Etching
Had a wonderful shave with this 1840 English Wedge .Blade gave a very smooth and close shave with almost no effort .

 

Razor: N.B & Co “Excellent Razor”
Brush: Thater 4125/1
Soap: Vintage Williams
A/S: Razorock XX
Love the double notches...

Enjoy your shave!
Tom

 

SOTD:
Preshave: Proraso Sensitive
Razor: Vintage 6/8 Fredrick Reynolds Old English Razor all original 1/4 hollow
Strop: Castle Shave 3’ English Bridal with Nylon Backing
Brush: Kent BLK4
Shave Cream: A&E Grecian
AfterShave: A&E Grecian

So I just received the shave cream and aftershave today, so excitement was building in me to try this soap the 1st chance I got. Scent on this is very strong but lovely! This from what I read is also a Fougère. Still not familiar with what makes a soap a Fougère, but I seem to have a thing for them. A&E should be called the lather Kings, this soap is extra thirsty and had to add water to each pass. Adding water doesn’t bother me especially when I get these results. Soap is very slick and performs amazing. It has a very strong cologne type of scent strong enough that the second you open the lid you get smacked in the face with it. Got a half decent shave not because of the soap but because of the razor. I got this razor shave ready but it is not to my standards so I think I’m going to go back and refresh this beast.


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Another shave with the Edvin Neiström Swedish steel this morning. A great shave with the exception on one minor cut where I always seem to do this. The work on perfection continues, but the shave quality under the chin on the neck was probably the best ever today.

 

Wm Elliot & Co Wednesday

 

Today's shave was with an old Sheffield Razor. I had a very smooth 2 pass shave, with minor touch-ups, that left me BDBS. Zero Issues, just smooth shaving.

Razor- George Wostenholm & Sons. "EBRO", Sheffield.
Brush- Stirling Boar
Soap- Arko/Avon Spicy
Aftershave- Shulton Old Spice. Old Spice Lighthouse Decanter.

 

I needed to break out my favorite razor in order to reassure myself that the Lund hadn’t surpassed it. Nothing else comes close to the deceptive butter knife smoothness of this razor. Deceptive because it is as sharp as anything else in my den.

Hot water preparation
AOS Lavender PSO
Declaration Grooming Pure Lavender
Romera Wengue Chubby Manchurian Badger
1941 Russian ZTV 5/8
Thayers Rose Petal Witch Hazel



Happy shaving - Karl

 

The Barber's Delight Straight Razor
Ever-Ready #1 Boar Brush (restored)
Love My Skin Sailor's Spice Soap
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Avon Brisk Spice After Shave (Locomotive Decanter)

It's been a while since I used a straight razor because of my past injury effecting the nerves in my hand has been acting up. When my hand gets in certain positions, it has a paralyzing effect, and I don't need that when using a straight. But today seemed like a good day to use it. Went with two passes, WTG and XTG for a good DFS. Still can't get the hang of ATG, but this is fine for now.

 

Beautiful scales on that razor! For me, I find it hard to beat the Russian, and the gold dollar razors. They just plain work.

 

The scales are unusual and I really like them. Really nice texture and easy to grip.

 

Great 3 pass shave tonight with the
landers frary & clark 9/16
JR 175 stl boar brush
Col conk bay rum
Nivea post shave balm

 

Ali’s Blade smiling 7/8

 

6/8 vintage T.I.
Oleo Polar (canard)
Thater boar

I really enjoy using these vintage razors. Nice shave this morning. I don't think I'll wax poetically about the brush or the soap. Both are very decent but I have stuff I prefer. I have enough of the newer soaps to play with for a long time but I think I'm going to head back toward the more traditional shaving soaps. Have a good one.

 

WACKER “Jungmeister” Full Hollow 7/8 Spanish Point

She just came in the mail.Tested the edge with my thumb pad.Sharp but not to my standards.So I did a sharpton glass progression 4K,8K and 16K.Finished the edge on Purple Welsh Slate and an Escher .
Shave was outstanding.Edge came out smooth a silk.I really like how this razor was made.It has a fair amount of weight which assists in removing whiskers with almost no effort.Her balance is great for a 7/8 blade.She also like to sing loud to give you nice audible feedback.What more could a man ask for .

 

2 Wackers, lol.

 

The SR is a I. Bolland (Liège Belgium, 1905)