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SOTD FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 2021
This morning felt like a fram
eback mug shave day. The LeCoultre RT&Cie Frameback 6/8 was manufactured in Switzerland between 1850 - 1860 by the forebears of the great Swiss watchmaking firm of Jaeger & LeCoultre. In a sense framebacks with their replaceable blades foreshadowed the shavettes/barber’s razors of today. The blade steel for this particular razor was quite hard, but did take a very nice edge. Two passes with some additional buffing and flatblading left your happy narrator delightfully smooth.
And since it is OC October what better vintage safety razor for my noggin shave than the incredibly efficient Eclipse Red Ring. This little Sheffield built British razor, while not strictly an OC, but more like a hybrid with the stabilizing bar beneath, was quite innovative for its time. One of the early handle adjustables it also features a magnet at the base of the handle for safely picking up dropped razor blades. I like it because it’s incredibly efficient, and never fails to deliver a very close two pass ATG shave as it did this morning leaving me porcelain smooth from the shoulders up.
RAZOR: LeCoultre RT & Cie Frameback 6/8 (Mug), Eclipse Red Ring (Dome)
BLADE: Feather DE
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: Rooney Ebony Pure Badger
CROAP: A&E Shaving Butter
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse with Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with A&E Post-Shave Serum.
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