June 2020 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Fine travel shave, Joe! I hope you enjoy the drive today. Safe travels.

 

June Focus

Mediterráneo~~Mondial~~'47 Super-Speed/Voskhod~~SMN Peau d'Espagne
The weekend is here and it's time for another shave!
Once more, I lathered up the Mediterráneo, this time with a straight face-lather.
Results were lovely and as always, there is less air incorporated into the lather,
but at the same time, lather can tend to dryish. I have taken to adding H2O to the breech of the knot.
Fresh Voskhod in the 1947 Super-Speed and the shave was smoother than yesterday.
I have a few samples of Santa Maria Novella and I chose to try their version of
Spanish Leather: Peau d'Espagne, first introduced in 1901.
Top notes: Bergamot, carnation and jasmine.
Heart notes: neroli, cedar violet leaf and hawthorn.
Bass notes: birch and civet.
Very woodsy and intriguing scent.​

 

Thanks gentlemen. I hope you both have a great weekend.

 

Great photo and shave, Jim! I hope the flies and gnats don't mistake you for an actual banana today.

 

Fine shave, Mark!

 

Even with only a "pretty excellent" result by your standards, sounds like a fine shave Paul.

 

Fine shave, Joseph. The Stirling unscented Glacial balm is excellent and has a very healing feel to me.

 

Thank you, Clint!
Starting the weekend off with a little enabling I see.

Thanks, Andrew!
I do have a little yard work to do today, I guess I'll find out.

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Excellent shave Jeff! I think we all have the same wonderful "problem" in choosing a razor to shave.

 

Very nice shave and safe travels Joe!

 

IAMCDB, a YouTuber and formerly known as the Teleshavangelist (TSE) recently reviewed the soap and said that it was a strong awesome scent. Glad you enjoyed it and had a great shave Jim!

 

Thank you, Joe!

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Eyepopping setup Mark!

 

Nice shave Paul! This morning I had a soupy lather so I just added more soap to get the lather to my standard. I would suggest that you do the same.

 

Awesome Joseph! Those are some unique notes, but I know you can sing your way through any of them. Lol!

 

awesome ss shave Joseph,have a great weekend..

 

saturday shave
1936 new sc somerset
platinum
omega boar
stirling gentleman

good morning gents,second go with the new sc/platinum shorty.rainy out again so i succumbed to an autumn scent.fabulous gentleman lather built with the omega boar,resulting in a fine bbs in 2+ passes.gentleman aftershave to finish.awesome..got the case cleaned up.unfortunately the upper lid liner will need work due to rust stains from the old carbon blades that rusted from water damage.maybe a reline down the road.at least the razor and case survived.have a fine day everyone..

 

thank you Clint,have a great weekend..

 

June 13 SOTD

Good morning guys! It's the Saturday Special Shave!

Shavette Shave #164
Dovo Shavette
Rockwell 1/2 DE Blade (4)
JR #386 Silvertip Badger
Stirling Sandalwood SS and AS

It's a special shave because my gear starts with an S except for the Rockwell blade. JR doesn't start with an S but it is ok because it has a Silvertip knot. Ok, enough of this frivolous talk.
the JR #386 is my favorite brush because it is soft and gives me such a great lather. The Sandalwood scent is very mild and soothing to my nose. I made the lather a little to wet so I just added more soap to get it to my liking. Did a 2.5 pass and some touchups for an IBSS++ without any dramatic openings by the Red Brigade or appearances by Richie Rash and his Band of Not Ready for Prime Time Players. However, I did bin the blade after only 4 shaves. It is rare that I bin a blade after so few shaves, but it wasn't feeling too sharp because I had to do some major touchups to get a nice shave. Applied a double dose of the matching aftershave and I am good to go. Have a nice Saturday fellas!

 

very cool.