Wednesday early morning OCtober 24
Gillette NEW Long Comb with Durham Razor handle/ Astra SP (2)
JR #320 mahogany handle with 28mm APShaveCo SynBad knot
Renaissance Faire style horn quaich lather bowl
Hendrix Classics Barbershop soap
Alum and Hendrix Classics Barbershop balm test sample
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Incidentally, this is both the first photo I have taken with the camera on my new Amazon Fire 8 tablet and the first time I have tried to post a photo here using that tablet. I think it all worked perfectly. From now on, I can put photos in my daily shaves again!
My new brush from Jim
@Jayaruh arrived in the mail yesterday afternoon. When I bought the knot for Neal that is now in The Canuck, I bought a big SynBad for myself. Jim had a new style of handle he was showing off, so I asked him to fit the knot into one for me. The result is beautiful. It also represents the true loss of my NB'18. It turned out that the ferrules I bought for my Vlasta T-400 only fit the production brushes and not the prototypes like mine, so I ended up with a refund -- and a still-unbroken NB. However, when ordering the knot to pay off my bet to Neal for breaking my NB, I bought a couple extra for myself -- and thus broke my NB anyway... Well, at least my NB Buster Brush is beautiful...
I have used the razor before, last week I think. It shaves very well even if it is a bit of a frankenrazor. And the soap and balm have both shown up in the majority of my shaves this month.
What was the result? In a word, fabulous. The SynBad knot is soft but very dense with loads of backbone. It actually splays less and covers less of my face than some of my 24mm badger brushes, even though it is now the biggest knot I own since I sold my Kent BK12. It whipped up enough creamy lather in my bowl for my two passes plus half a dozen more. The razor and blade worked smoothly and efficiently to give me a near BBS in two passes. I did discover a small weeper on my chin, but it looks to me like I ran over a cluster of small pimples. The alum, rinse and balm fixed that.
This brush is definitely a keeper. For that matter, so is the razor, the soap and the balm.
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