SoS: August 3-9 2009 - "The Artisans of TSD Week"

4 AUG.
MMIX. TUESDAY.

Wash: Imperial Leather
Razor: Merkur Long
Blade: Dorco ST-301
Lather: Tabac Stick
Brush: Crabtree Pure
Splash: Bracer Blue
Finish: Pierre Cardin.

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Dorco really makes a quality blade. Blue & Red work equally well in my estimation and cost the same at the barber supply from which I bought them. 8 bones per 100 blades, not 8.5, as I cited earlier.

Then again, Derbys and Astras are also $8/100pack.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdlqjiQPAc

 

Tuesday:

Gorey's Chairman
Ming Shi TTO/new 7 AM
Karo Fresh-SC
Tabiano-AS gel
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Giorgio Beverly Hills-EDT

This Karo Fresh cream has the same great lather, a nice scent, and great skincare as the Karo Classic version. It has menthol, but it's not face-freezing. It's very discrete and pleasant. Check out www.alenmak.bg for more details.

 

Hey, Habibi, what did you lather up with?

 

Hot Shower
Florida Water Prep
1906 Gillette Single Ring
TSD Coconut Lime Verbena
Dickinson's WH
Corn Husker's Lotion
Aqua Velva Classic

WOW! What a shave! Ears-Nose, Nose-Ears, South-North BBS. Without question the most aggressive DE I've ever used. This is a great razor.

 

Tuesday - Artisan Week

• Soap:Ginger's Garden Lime Yuzu
• Brush:Semogue 1305
• Razor:Bob's Razor Works Bulldog Mastiff
• Blade:KAI (Shave #2)
• A/S: Thayers with peppermint EO followed by own ASB mix

 

TUESDAY

Schick Krona
7'Clock yellow wrapper/day 1
Kell's Original Hemp/Aloe/Almond SC
VDH Brush
FOTE Aloe Gel
Ogallala Bay Rum w/Peppercorns & Lime

 

4th August 09

Semogue 1305
Proraso soap-green
Merkur HD
Feather D3
Alum
Aqua Velva
Ems Bay Rum ASB.

This was my first shave with the Semogue 1305. I am looking forward to learning the intricacies of this brush.

 

Tuesday

Merkur Futur
Derby Extra (1)
KMF Cool Mint Cream
Thayer's WH with Aloe
Adidas Ice Dive A/S

 

Tuesday: Parker 91r razor / US Personna blade / Kell's Original SS (Juniper&Sage) / Omega 10065 brush / Barbasol Brisk Aftershave

An effortless DFS shave this morning. What a great way to start the day.

 

Musgo Real Glyce Lime Oil Soap
QED Fresh Limes
Omega 48 Professional
'41 Ranger Tech
Derby (1)
Taylors No. 74 Victorian Limes

 

Tuesday...heading out for an all day meeting:

Plisson 16
Taylor of Old Bond Street Jermyn St. cream
Merkur Futur w/ Gillette Permasharp blade
Thayer's Rose Witch Hazel w/ alcohol
TSD Victorian Rose Milk
Floris No. 89 EdT

 

Tuesday 8/4 . . .

• [*]Prep: Rite Aid Skin Cleansing Cream & Hot Towel
  [*]Brush: The "Ever Roddy 300" an Ever Ready 300 refurbished with silvertip badger knot by The "Knotty Badger"
  [*]Cream: SCS Verbena
  [*]Razor: 1911 GEM Jr Lather Catcher Style with two piece handle
  [*]Blade: Ted Pella PTFE coated SE (shave 3)
  [*]Oil Pass: Leisureguy's Last-Pass Shave Oil
  [*]A/S: Thayer's Rose Petal Witch Hazel Toner & SCS Savory Rose ASM
  [*]EDT: SCS Blend 2-11
  
  [*]Result: Another terrific BBS shave with a GEM lathercatcher style razor and the Ted Pella blade. Coming to the end of my SCS Verbena cream. I have another tub but the cream has not agreed with my face this time around. Going to consider getting rid of the cream despite the great scent. Anyway, even though the cream caused some stinging it was not bad and it did help me get a wonderful BBS shave.

 

Tuesday - August 4

Golden Nib Silvertip in C&E handle
Old Spice Fresh Lime
Gillette '55 Gold Ball End Tech
Gillette "Swede" (D6)
Old Spice Original Splash

 

Ah! Good looking out!

Helluva lather.

 

Trumpers razor
B&B brush
SMN shave cream
SCS Blue Line AS
Guerlain Heritage EDT

 

TUESDAY
Semogue 1305-TSD Iced Subzero Shavingstick-Rocket hd with Wilkinson-Proraso AS.

 

04August DE day:

Hot shower
Hot wash cloth
VDH soap in coffee mug
Col. Conk Badger Brush
1965 Fat Boy (Grandfather's razor)
Walmart Personna blade
Three passes WTG, ATG, XTG
Witch Hazel
Aqua Velva

BBS

 

8/4

1919 valet autostrop
gem blade, modified
williams soap
ever ready horsehair brush, black and brown handle

dickinsons witch hazel
boosters june clover

penhaligons endymon

 

Traveling, so Monday was this:
-Weishi Gunmetal Razor
-Dorco ST301
-Speick Shave Stick
-Omega 20086 boar
-Alum block
-Ogglala bay Rum Limes & Peppercorns Sample

Tonight (Tuesday), I'm ready for a new blade and will go to a 7 O'Clock Sharp Edge and will use my TSD bergamot splash in support of "The Artisans of TSD Week". The splash is the only TSD product I have with me.