Saturday - it's the weekend! Time for the SEs. Prep: 30 minute marinade with TSD ISZ PSB, strop str8, hot shower CD: Blues Gold, disc 2 ~ various later artists Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Ethiopia Illubabor, BLACK Strop: VB 2" black latigo/linen Soap: L'Occitane Cade Brush: 24mm silvertip set in red mallee burl Str8: J R Torrey, 3 passes SE: Schick Injector E model, touch up Post: Cold water rinse, RazoRock rubdown, cold water rinse #2, Cool Mist, B&BW Noir Shave Rating: 3 blades Should have taken the Torrey to the hone. Not bad, but could feel the burn afterwards from trying to make a slightly dull edge work.
Saturday Gillette FB @8 Derby day 3 Vulfix best badger travel brush Palmolive Menthol shaving cream TSD Iced Eucalyptus Witch Hazel Proraso splash Remarkable days we have right now. Yesterday it started to snow, which resulted in a traffic jam totaling almost 800 km at its peak. In a country just a little bit bigger than Maryland. Friday was followed by a night with -23 Celsius, making it already the coldest February since 1956. How many reasons one has to have to make it Menthol Saturday? Because the sun was shining so nicely I took my Mentholated shaving goodies outside to make a picture in their natural iced habitat. And then I went for the ultimate shave, cranked the FB up to 8, took my time and had a really great shave. The level of BBS on my cheeks was almost scary. It is 8 hours since I shaved and it still feels like a DFS on any other day right after shaving. Amazing.
Day late in posting this, was too busy yesterday... Shave Of The Day ~ February 3rd Hot Shower Vulfix 404 Badger/Boar Mix Brush Georgetown Scuttle Gillette Menthol Cream Lord L6 Razor Shark Super Chrome Blade ~ Day 4 Thayer's Witch Hazel/Osage Rub Mix Pinaud Clubman Aftershave
Saturday, weekend, Rolls Razor time! Setup: Prep: hot water, hot washing cloth Music: Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells (the original from the seventies this time) Brush: WS badger/boar Soap: TSD Signature Razor: Rolls Since there were not many whiskers yet (BBS yesterday) straight to ATG. Shouldn't have done that... Shouldn't have done that... Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse, TSD Witch Hazel Nice close shave, almost BBS, but some razor burn along the throat. Meh. Better next time. Great weekend to all!
Saturday, February 4, 2012 Prep: Hot shower Soap/cream: VDH Deluxe Brush: Omega 10066 Razor: Gillette Slim Adjustable I-2 birth year/quarter, (5) Blade: Lord Platinum (7) hand stropped Cold water rinse Dickinson's Witch Hazel Superior 70 Bay Rum Haven't used the VDH soap in a really long time, just been trying too many others! It probably deserves a little spot in everyone's den - under appreciated in my view. The Lord Platinum gave me seven days of service, and while it could still could go another day or two, I'll swap it out. Ironically, it seems to work better in my Slim than my Lord L6 razor... Привет, Джефф в Монреаль! 60% BBS, 40% DFS
Sat. Feb 4 Brush: Vie-Long Boar/horse Soap/Creme: Col Conk Bay Rum Razor: Merkur Progress Blade: Gillette blue Pre: Hot Towel Post: Masters Lilac Vegetal Hair Groom: Just a little water, and a few strokes of a military brush. Result: A fine weekend shave.
oddly enough VDH is my favorite soap. inexpensive,readily availiable at wally-world. I buy two 2.5 oz. pucks at a time and melt them down into my burmashave mug. 5 oz puck of soap for a little over $3. And imo it provides an excellent shave and smells great.
Saturday, February 4, 2012. Good Morning! Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers Original Blend Prep: Wash face with Musgo Real Glyce Lime Razor: Schick G1 Blade: Schick Soap: MWF Brush: Omega 10005 Scuttle: Dirty Bird 1.5 Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Floid Blue
This was last nights shave (had to recharge battery in camera) Hot shower Eclipse red ring 2 piece razor Kent BK12 Astra sp blade Proraso pre Proraso white DFS nice mild and smooth shave from the eclipse Proraso ASB
Old bowling ball...that's great! I'll bet the desnsity of the material gives the handle a great feel. The knot size and loft height are my sweet spot too. Thanks for Beejay's info. Hey, did you just enable me?
Saturday Twinplex Sales Co 5/8 Altesse badger Pacific Natural shave cream Master Bay Rum Drakkar Noir EDT I haven't used the 5/8 in awhile, but it gave me a pretty decent shave. I still prefer my 6/8 razors. The Pacific Natural shave cream delivers a wonderful lather while using very little cream.
Saturday's Shave: Skipped Friday, day off, but it turned out a great shave for today. Coffee: World Market Peruivian Prep: Hot shower, Nivea Cool Kick Face Wash Razor: Gillette Aristocrat Blade: Voskhod Brush: VDH badger Soap: Ralph Lauren Safari Post: TSD Bourbon Vanilla ASM
Muehle Dog = R41 ('11) Head + iKon Bulldog Handle Rapira Swedish SS M&F Emillion Tet-A-tet Shave cream Barbasol Pacific Rush A/S Tet-A-tet A/S Balm
Saturday's Shower and Shave Hot Shower LuJin Badger/Le Savon a Barbe Bay & Sweet Orange Gillette SS/ Persona Blue (4) Polar water facial rinse, Thayer's Witch Hazel, Arko The :wave:give this DFS a solid 9. Everyone have a great weekend. Giants will stomp all over the Pats.
Well Lignum Vitae is so dense it actually is one of the only woods that will sink in water, it also is naturally rich in oils, so making it very good for using when making shaving brushes, and the brush and knot proved to be so good in use, that I had another model made diifferent model but with the same knot by Bill, during the turn of the century Lignum Vitae was most used in the same way engineers would use metal today, mostly found in heavy industry ship yards so on making pully blocks lifting gear and many uses you would come to expect from this incredibly hard wood. Regards Jamie.
SATURDAY! Muhle R106 The Colonel Personna Lab Prep All things Proraso What a shave! I am trying out one of the lab prep blades from Savages PIF. It had 3 days of hair to cut through but did a great job! The shave went really smooth! Also I happily welcomed the Proraso after a few nights of little sleep. I can honestly say I feel refreshed with this 5 star DFS! This day is turning out great! A great shave that will be complimented with a great opera debut tonight!
