SoS: April 9th, 2012 - April 15th, 2012

April 9rd - Late Night Shave
Beverage: Big Ginger
Prep: Nivea Face Wash
Razor: Ball end Travel Tech
Brush: Vulfix 660S Super Badger
Blade: Voskhod (2)
Soap/Cream: GFT Coconut SC
Post: 5Savages After Shave
AS: The Body Shop - White Musk ASB
BBS!

Travel Tech + Voskhod = awesome, comfortable shave. I had to check to make sure I really had a blade in there, it was that smooth.

The GFT Coconut did not have a strong scent, which is good because I don't care for coconut. This was the first of the GFT samples I used. Based on 3 shaves with GFT and 9 with T&H samples, I prefer the T&H creams.

The White Musk ASB was a sample and is nothing I'm impressed with.

 

Tuesday:

Soak Brushes/Savile Row 3824 & Semogue SOC Boar (break in period)
Hot Shower
Proraso PrePost cream
Trumper's Coconut Oil shave soap
Merkur 39c "The Hammer" /Voskhod (3)
Cold Water Rinse
Monster Block Alum
Cold Water Rinse (Clean brushes,razor,police area)
Myrsol Formula K mixed with a pea sized amount of 444

Nice 2 pass face,1 pass head shave from The Hammer,the Voskhod was very smooth today it almost felt like I wasn't using a blade.I knew it was cutting because I had nice feedback and my sinkwater had alot of whiskers in it.I normally would retire a blade after 3 uses(more when you factor in the headshaves) but I'm gonna push it to 4 maybe 5 with The Hammer.

 

Tuesday morning, April 10, 2012

Schick E2 Injector Razor w/ Schick blade (4)
Semogue SOC boar bristle brush,
MWF shaving soap w/ warm water lather,
finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!

 

Tuesday Morning:

Pre: Hot Shower, Tabac SC + Glycerin
Razor: Merkur 23c
Blade: Perma-Sharp Super (5)
Cream: European Palmolive
Brush: Omega 10005
Post: Thayers WH Lemon, Cold Rinse, Clubman AS

Todays shave was another excellent one from the Perma-Sharp. I am quite impressed with this blade, as it is consistently comfortable, and a little bit aggressive at the same time, all the way through. I feel it is nearing the end of its usable life at this point, but I have no complaints about that, seeing as it's at 5 shaves, 4 of which are 3.5 passes or more.

Would use again! Have a good one folks!

 

SOTD Tuesday 4-10-2012

1920ish French manuf'd. "Old Type"
Crystal Blade
Pre de Provence SC
Ceramic Medium Badger
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Mennen Original Skin Bracer

 

Tuesday, April 10

55’ Gillette Red Tip
Voskhod (d2)
Tabac SS
Vulfix 404 Grosvenor
Master Blue
Herbissimo Mountain Juniper Cologne
Result: 4.9 on 3 passes. A minor touch up would have made it BBS. Tried a cold water shave. Went well, except my Rooney 2XL Stubby did not want to lather the glycerin puck cold. The switch to the Vulfix 404 and Tabac solved that.

 

Gerry,

How do you like the Myrsol Formula K? Have you tried any other Myrsol products?

 

Tuesday

Prep: Hot shower, soak brush
CD: Best of the Blues ~ disc 2
Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Malawi Mapanga AA, BLACK
Soap: TSD SOTQ B4, Asian Plum
Brush: Mohawk 3-338
Razor: Schick Krona
Blade: Gillette Super Thin, day 2, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, Cool Mist, Curve, hand strop blade

Not bad. First time using the Krona. I was pleasantly surprised to find it wasn't as mild as I thought it would be. Could have been the blade. We'll see. Still many more shaves ahead.

 

WOW! That razor looks stunning! Congrats to you, Glen and of course JoAnna!

 

OK, Johnny - this just cries for an intervention. You are much loved on the forum, and are obviously a man of sophistication and exquisite taste... A true gentleman. Admired. Respected. So, what is with the Hills brothers coffee???? You deserve much better, my friend!

 

Monday:

• Prep: hot washing cloth,
• Music: none, though I might have listened to The Photographer by Philip Glass which is a music-drama in three acts about Eadweard J. Muybridge. He would have been 182 yesterday, as I found out later.
• Brush: DVH boar
• Soap: TSD signature, wet lathered
• Razor: Gillette Old Type OC
• Blade: Feather, 3rd shave
• Shave: 3-pass

Nice and comfy DFS++


Tuesday

• Prep: hot washing cloth,
• Music: Vangelis, China
• Brush: DVH boar
• Soap: TSD signature, wet lathered
• Razor: Gillette flare tip Rocket
• Blade: Merkur, 4th shave
• Shave: 3-pass

BBS! What else remains to be said? Love the brush, love the soap, lloovvee the razor!


Spread the love!

 

Well, I do thank you for the nice compliments. However, the Hills Bros Coffee is just fine with me. Decent coffee at a fair price. Besides, I can't afford better coffee because all of the money I am saving on shaving products. A man has to put his priorities in order you know.

 

I'm with you Johnny. Drinking Folgers here. No frills just black.

 

Oh, well. To paraphrase someone here...it's your coffee - enjoy it your way!

 

Nick, do you have a dog?

 

As Phyto Expert cream tube is only 3-5 shaves left, I decided to just shave off the tube by everyday use.
OCMM/Gem SS PTFE
Vie-Long horsehair brush
Phyto Expert SC
Cold water splash
Nivea AS splash
OCMM just rocks! If only someone tell me why the Gem blades serves unpredictable number of shaves, from 3 to 7 randomly . Thinking of 'no DE week' with OCMM and straights only...

 

No pic today...

Wilkinson shave soap applied with Sabi black Badger
Gillette Redtip Rocket - Gillette/Wilkinson (India) blade - 2 Passes
Cold rinse
Hawleywood Bay Rum AS

DFS

 

Good morning, fellows!

My Wednesday shave:

Valobra Menthol shave soap
Mühle Basic Nr. 02 shave brush with Silver Tip Fibre
56’ Gillette Red Tip Super Speed
Astra Superior Platinum (new)
D.R. Harris Bay Rum after shave

Very enjoyable shave! Super performance by the razor, seems a decent combination with the ASP, a good alternative for those days when I do not have a Feather at hand…

Good evening, good night and have a great Wednesday ahead of you!

 

Brush: Vulfix 404 Grosvenor
Razor: Edwin Jagger DE89
Blade: Super Iridium
Prep: Hot Shower, SNM Cream Pre-Dopo Barba
Scuttle: Schwarzweisskeramik L
Soap: SNM
Post: Cold water, Alum, SNM Emulsion, SNM Colonia Russa

3 pass + blade buffing for the ultimate BBS w/no irritation. unreal

 

Well that's disappointing...I rely on you, Jamie and Stroker to get my daily fix of shave porn.