Grandpa Shave Friday- Who's In?

As wetshavers, we all share a love for things traditional. If we didn't we'd still be using plastic and goo, right? Well the idea came to me, why not take that one step further? I'm calling it Grandpa Shave Friday, here's the ground rules:

Razors: No new school designer razors, only razors at least 40 years old will be used. New school straight razors are exempt from the age requirement for obvious reasons.

Soap/Creams: The key word here is traditional. Grandpa didn't have the internet and TSD, Mama Bear, and TGQ were still years away. Grandpa used traditonal soaps and creams he could buy at the corner drug store or grocery store (i.e. Williams, VDH, Tabac, Proraso, etc.) only these sorts of traditional products should be used on Grandpa Shave Fridays

Witch Hazel and Lotions: Use what you normally do but for complete accuracy lotions should be as close to old school as you can get and use of non-boutique witch hazel is recommended.

AS/Cologne: Again the watchwords here are traditional and classic. This part won't be a big stretch out of the ordinary for most of us. We're talking about Aqua Velva, Clubman, Old Spice, English Leather, Murray and Lanman's, and of course their European counterparts (Speick, Floid, Tabac, etc)

So with that, here's a preview of my inaugural Grandpa Friday Shave:
Hot Shower
Florida Water prep
1966 Gillette Slim Adjustable
1930's Ever Ready Brush
VDH Glycerin
Dickinson's WH (straight, not aloefied)
Corn Husker's Lotion
Copious quantities of Aqua Velva Classic

Note: If you really want to blow this thing out of the water, take your shave somewhere other than the bathroom (i.e. on the porch or at the kitchen table). Unfortunately, I'm not set up for this just yet.

So who's in?

 

I'm in but it is to late for today, already shaven.
But I will honor next friday to grandpa shaving. Some old razors to chose from, Palmolive cream and Tabac or Aqua Vera afterhave. Will smell like a very old man!

 

Well, I'm in. But, that is what I do every day I shave. I use my straight razor or safety razor I inherited from my grandfather. I use soap in a coffee mug and a badger brush. I use a generic witchhazel. And finish off with the same after shave I've used since I started shaving at the age of about 14 - Aqua Velva. Hey, it has been good enough for every other man in my family before me.

 

Does a straight razor made in 1790 qualify for grandpa shave friday? The soap is a Van Der Hagen, the brush may be the only infaction on the rules, its a Col Conk, I have no idea how long the company has been in busines. Sometimes I use after shave sometimes I don't and this is one of the ocassions where I did not.

 

I think a 1790 razor is only for the grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-pa shave.

 

Yeah, you'll have to wait 6 weeks from now. :happy102

 

I can't be perfect due to traveling for work, but here's what I have with me that comes close:
-70's knack (if I was at home I'd use my '57 Superspeed)
-VDH boar brush
-VDH Delux
-Alum "stone"
-TSD Bergamot Splash (the big violator!!!)
-Trumper's Sandalwood (or Bay Rum) Cologne

If I my wife didn't hate it, I'd grab some English Leather on the way back to the hotel tonight for my evening shave. But, I'm just not willing to let 95% of a bottle of aftershave be a waste.

 

Im up for it!,but next friday cuz I did already shave today...so Friday is gonna be the "retro grandpa shave"

 

Same here.. So why is a new straight acceptable when a new razor modeled after a safety razor from 1904 isn't?

I feel that usually I already am doing a "Grandpa's" Shave. Most of my razors are from the 20's to 30's. The only thing that would be different is the soap & A/S choice for the day.

But, to play along:

Rolls Razor
Tabac Soap
Modern Boar brush (sorry, only "old" brush has been re-knotted)
drugstore witchhazel
Old Spice

 

I'm in!
Friday shave:
Razor: Gillette '47 SS
Blade: NOS Wilkinson
Brush: Burma boar
Soap: Palmolive shave stick
A/S: Shulton's Old Spice
Edt: Shulton's Old Spice

 

Heck, everyday for me is a "Grandpa" shave, got 8 grandkids.

 

I shaved before I saw this, but I actually kind of participated. The razor I used today was a Red Tip Superspeed. I remember when I would stay over at my Grandparents house I was always very curious about my Grandpa's razor, and wondered why he didn't have an electric like my Dad. My Grandpa used a Red Tip Superspeed, which he learned to leave bladeless when I would visit.

He did not have the luxury of JM Frasers, and Rick didn't give him the recipe for Summer Salve, but I always feel like I am using Grandpa's razor when I use my Red Tip. Too bad I don't have the one he acutally used.

 

Proraso? That didn't exist when my Grandpa was around, I don't think--at least not where he lived.

 

My '57 Superspeed belonged to my Great grandfather. It is a great connection to the past. Plus it's my favorite razor in terms of shave quality. Everything else I use to shave could be replaced, but this razor is VERY special to me.

 

Don't we love the thing that connect us to the past. I do. I regularily use some razors that did belong to my mothers' uncles. When I use them I imagine the situations they used to shave in, before the Satuday dance, in the timeber worker hut, before going out on the fields for harvest. It gives me new dimensions to life.

 

How old or new is Col Conk? I have no idea.

 

im in. ill even do it with sock suspenders on for extra points. next fridday though

 

Girls don't shave like Grampa, but I'm in since I have one of his razors. Today, however, it's a Reynold's pre-1900 5/8 spike with lather from the soap rock known as Williams in an Old Spice mug whipped up with an Ever-Ready 150 boar. Happy Friday!

 

I can't wait to be at this long enough to be able to participate in GSF!