6/8 Tonsorial Gem Stirling homemade brush Bigelow Elixir Green Nothing fancy but a well made blade. It took a fine edge and delivered a great shave.
KABESO 3043 Hefty, solid feel in hand. A little extra wear at the toe, but I can live with that. Enjoy your shave. Tom
J.S. Holler Coates Lime SC Simpson Manchurian Gent's Gin Very nice one pass shave. I need to dig out a few razors I haven't used in awhile.
Todays shave was with a newly acquired and honed razor. I had a very smooth 2 pass shave, that left me BBS. The Japanese Stones I am now using are doing a great job. Razor- Tupper-Spiegel & Co., Duluth Minn. Brush- Razorock 400, WD High Mountain Badger. Soap- TOBS Cedarwood. Aftershave- Vintage Avon Spicy
Wade &Butcher Jayaruh #311 Boar Brush True Gentleman Preshave Oil Barrister and Mann Roam Shaving Soap John Varvatos Artesian Aftershave Balm Enjoy your evening gentlemen! Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk
15/16” Kropp Sort of unique in that there is no reference to England. Just “ Made in Germany” Wonderful edge Enjoy your shave. Tom
Saturday Straights' Shave Cold Water Rinse Vintage Life Licorice Jayaruh #273 Synthetic Luxor Pro Master Gillette Silver Blue CWR Florida Water My prep was just a cold water rinse. The Vintage Life Licorice Shave Soap face lathered well with the Jayaruh #273 Synthetic brush. I did two passes with the Luxor Pro Master razor with a Gillette Silver Blue blade and ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, I finished off with Florida Water. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...
Shave #6 with the Filly 14 Sub Cero user, soap was the sublime Martin de Candre fougere lathered with a Keyhole 3, and a splash of Myrsol AB finished up a no-stubble, no-sting BDBS shave.
I had custom scales put on a Bismarck, but the finish started turning to a matte finish over time. I posted a pic of the razor online, and the guy who made the scales noticed this and generously offered to refinish them at no cost. In the process of rescaling the razor, though, the bade became chipped, blunted, and virtually unusable. He offered to send it off to have it sharpened, but I decided to take a crack at it myself. The chips were bad enough that I used a 220 Norton to take them out, and then set the bevel at 1000. Took my time (i.e. anal retentive overkill) on the Norton 4000 and 8000, finishing up on the Naniwa 12000, and then 50 strops on leather. The result was one of the thinnest, straightest bevels I’ve got, which then produced one of the smoothest, closest straight shaves I can recall. Granted, other than the dullness and chips, there was nothing particularly wonky about the blade, but I’m still extremely pleased and proud of the final result after basically starting over with this blade at “ground zero”.
Engstrom frameback Tabac homemade badger Tabac AS I like framebacks but haven't indulged myself much but I do have a few. Nice shave today. Have a good one.
