Saturday Hot Shower Green Marvy Mug Sabi Badger TSD SOTQ Lord L6 Voskhod (2) Cool Water Rinse TRSC ASB Lolita Lempicka Perfume I still can't place the scent of this SOTQ. Now, it's off to work for me. Have a great Saturday!
Saturday, January 7 59’ E1 Fatboy (setting 7) Lord Platinum (D3) MWF Vulfix 2235 Super Master Musk Excellent lather from the MWF, and this is only my 2nd shave with it. This puck seems to have no breakeven period.
Saturday, January 07, 2012 Pre-shave soap: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Razor: Merkur Futur Blade: Rapira Swedish Supersteel Brush: Vulfix 2234 Super Soap or Cream: Speick Cream A/S: Dickinson's Witch Hazel, Speick Splash An excellent shave this morning. I really like the scent, as well as the performance, of Speick products. I feel very refreshed and ready to take our dog to the dog park this morning. The other dogs will wag their tails in approval--they know a good shave when they see one!
Saturday - it's the weekend! Time for the SEs. Prep: 30 minute marinade with TSD ISZ PSB, strop str8, hot shower CD: The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Kenya Safari Ridge, BLACK Strop: VB 2" black latigo/linen Soap: TSD Leather Brush: C&E Pure badger Str8: Dovo Ebony A&F, 3 passes SE: Schick Injector E model, touch up Post: Cold water rinse, RazoRock rub down, cold water rinse #2, B&BW Noir 'Stache Wax: Firehouse Wacky Tacky Shave Rating: 5 Blades Super, super shave. Feelin' fine, smellin' great. Antique shopping this morning, Wild Card Weekend this afternoon. Life is good!
R41 w/ Feather (day 3 or 4 I think) Semogue 2000 Klar Kabinett / Bigelow SC / a healthy dose of M-bomb Frosty Super Duper Lather Alum TSD ISZ Witch Hazel Tet-a-Tet ASB Excellent cold water shave.
Saturday morning shave: Razor: Feather AS Blade: Shark super chrome (day 2. I like these blades so well I ordered 100 of them from BullGoose. Also some MWF,RazoRock XXX and alum ) Soap: Van Der Hagen Deluxe ( I dont think I told you guys this,but I bought 2 pucks of this stuff at walmart for $1.60 EA. melted them down in my Burma shave mug ) Brush: Omega Badger Shave rating: 5 blades Every now and then its just nice to use the cheap soap and abuse without worry
Saturday, January 7, 2012. Good Morning! Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers Original Blend Prep: Wash face with Musgo Real Glyce Lime Razor: DE87 Blade: Gillette Soap: Palmolive Classic Cream Brush: D.R. Harris H1 (Rooney 1/1) Scuttle: Dirty Bird 1.5 Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Floid Blue
Saturday morning, January 7, 2012 Schick E2 Injector Razor w/ Schick Blade, Omega 20107 Boar Bristle Brush, MWF shaving soap w/ warm water lather, finish w/ cold water rinse for a DFS!
Saturday, January 7, 2012 Prep: Hot shower; Yardley bath bar; hand strop blade Coffee: Locally roasted, fresh ground Costa Rican w/ cream Lather: MWF - face lather Brush: Simpson's Commodore X2 Razor: Gem Clog Pruf Micromatic Blade: Pella SS PTFE coated (2); 2 passes Post: Cold water rinse; Kiehl's Balm A distilled water experiment shave after my hard water thread the other day. I loaded for ½ the time that I normally do (30s instead of 60s) and still had plenty of lather for 4+ passes. Not as much leftover as I do regularly so I may be able to decrease my tap water loading as well. The Clog Pruf limits the angles that I like to use so if I'm not careful I cause irritation trying to get the results to match my OCMM which I can now use effortlessly. Skipped the A/S splash today and just used the Kiehl's balm and I think that worked better. My face feels wonderful. Shave Rating - Splendid! God Bless!
You gotta at least try it! You like the ISZ pre-shave, so it can't be that much of a leap. Keep your lather warm if you want but use cold water for all your rinses. Then if you like that you can try cold water lather and just go nutso!
All I can say about cold water shaves is, to each his own. I tried it one time, not because I wanted to but because I had to. Not my cup of tea.
SOTD Saturday7th January 2012 Feather Hi-Stainless/Muhle R89/Lijun&1980 Finest/Valobra Almond/C&E Nomad ASB
Veiga 7/8, restored & rescaled by Maximilian Ambrose Spanish Horse (25/50) Plisson #14 Haute Montagne JabonMan "Brisa de Oriente" SS Czech&Speake Frankincense&Myhrr EdT Jabonman is a spanish artisan who's is starting to make soft soaps, and with succes I must say. A picture of the lather
Saturday, January 7th Razor: GIBBS Click Pen Blade: Polsilver Brush: Rudy Vey D01 Beehive Pre-Shave: Musgo Real Glyce Lime Cream: Kool Monsoon A/S: Acca Kappa White Moss Emulsion I received the Kool Monsoon shave cream in a trade with Jeff (Crackstar aka Jay-dee) and decided to try it this morning. This cream lathered like it was on steroids...it almost reminded me of the classic Lucy episode with the washing machine that bubbles over with suds. The scent is a bit hard to describe though...I would say somewhere between Fruity Pebbles and Arko. I was expecting a bit of menthol (due to the name) but could not detect any. In any case, I enjoyed a fine shave followed by a dab of Acca Kappa Emulsion. The Kool Monsoon is a good economy cream that is worth a try.
Saturday 7th January Hot Shower, followed by a Real Shaving facial scrub Proraso Pre/Post cream Ford & Medley of Sheffield 333 5/8 razor Vie-Long N02 Extra Barber Brush Vitos Green Shaving soap Alum block, followed by Proraso Pre/Post cream Fixegoiste Ice A/S My second traditional straight shave. Once again a DFS shave, alough a little closer this time. I changed the angle slightly. An enjoyable experience with no cuts, weepers or burn. I do however still find the replaceable blade straights easier to use. The traditional edge is definitely less sharp, and the shave requires more work on my part. At least my newbie stropping does not appear to have caused any damage!
