Gem 1912 meets the bronze watering jug frog.


Special shot by eldest son.

Nice photography.

Thanks, will pass on accolades to son.

Second shave with my "Single Edge " injector style razor. With the #3 "aggressive " plate this is an excellent razor for me. About like the G aggressive wise but completely different due to the weight and construction. Did I say excellent?Yes I did and yes it is.

Second Stropping blade.

Equipment.

Razor: ER Streamline Stropping outfit.
Blade: Chess SE Stropping type blade (1)
Brush: JR 57 Maggard Synthetic Knot
Soap: KleanSpa The Shtik. Wood (Sandalwood, Amber, Musk and a touch of Vanilla)
Post shave: Witch hazel. KleanSpa Scent mist Wood

Tonight I decided to try a new blade. I got 10 shaves from my ER Corrux blade. Pretty good considering this was my first attempt a keeping a stropping blade alive. Anyhow I won a batch of these Chess blades and decided to give them a go. I opened ups pack and took one blade out. It had a nice coat of clear grease on the blade. one little spot of rust just off of the edge on the corner. These a a million times better than those supposed NOS Treets I bought a few weeks ago. (Got my money back by the way). I gave the blade 20 laps on the strop using the supplied strop from the ER kit. It is not the original, it is a Valet.I reconditioned it last weekend.

On to the shave. But first with some ramblings about the soap I am using.

There is a small store here in town that rents out a space for the lady that opened the KleanSpa store. Not sure how many locations there are. Only a few I believe. Anyhow my wife and I go by there on the weekend when I make here go with me on my razor searches. I have been talking to her for the past month about my shaving. She offers a couple of Shaving creams for men. A Sweetsmoke and the Wood. The cream is very slick when applied as a non lathering soap. It has Shea butter and a few other ingredients. It has left my face very soft and silky. Anyhow there is another fellow that goes there and wanted her to make him a hard soap in stick form. So when I went there today to buy the Wood shaving cream and Scent mist. She gave me a stick of the Shtik Wood to sample. This is a Glycerin based soap I believe.

On to the shave.

The Streamline I only have 3 shaves on it. But the first 2 shaves gave me great results. For me better than my other SE's except for my British 1912. I will need to do a shave off one day between these two. I started off by wetting my face and then rubbing the shave stick over my face. I then took my brush and proceeded to start to lather my face. Much to my surprise it started making a nice slick lather almost instantly. After about a minute of face scrubbing I had a nice slick lather. I had 3 days of growth to mow thru. Needless to say I was a bit leery of my first stroke with this blade. All doubt was removed as soon as I started my pass. This blade sliced thru the growth with ease. I finished my first pass with 1 weeper. I sliced off a small bump on my chin.

For my second pass I applied a bit more of the shaving stick to my face. Then proceeded to lather for the second pass. Again this made a nice slick lather. By the end of my second lathering I knew I had enough lather for my third pass. My second pass XTG went excellent with reduction up there with the best. The second pass would have passed for a CCS allover. As I always do 3 passes on to the next.

The third pass I just used the lather that was on the brush. I did dab the tips of the brush in water to get the lather a bit thinner for my third pass. I prefer a nice thin lather on my third pass ATG. This seems to work well for me. My third pass went without incident. I finished with a DFS and no touchup. I was very pleased with the results tonight. Especially on three days growth.

I promised the lady at KleanSpa I would use The Shtik all this next week and give here my feedback. I am very pleased that it performed well the first time out. It would suck if it was not any good.

I am hopping to get at least 10 shaves from this blade. I will be sticking to just 2 or three razors on this one.

Tom

Tonights shave


Tonight is the first time doing a cold water shave. Results were amazing. 3 pass shave routine and I'm BBS and refreshed. The Ogallala shave lathered up very well with a cold water soaked brush. I enjoyed the cold water shave tonight as its after midnight and its still over 75 degrees outside. Not to sure about it in January when its below zero outside I guess I'll just have to wait and see. Anyway on to tonights equipment.

Prep- Cold water wash cold towel.
Razor- Schick Injector M3 Protector.
Blade- Schick Twin (2).
Brush- Made Rite L1500 Pure Badger.
Lather- Ogallala Bay Rum Lime and Peppercorn soap.
Post- OSMA alum block and T N Dickinson's unscented witch hazel.
Very refreshing shave tonight. Riding the M train.... ...........

Ken P

Good to hear you got your money back.
Good post, thanks.

SOTD Sun. 6/26/16







Amazing shave this morning with twins in the Adj. Easy three pass shave routine, the Haslinger soap was bowl loaded and face lathered. Slick, rich effortless lather, dolphin smooth finish. Have a great day friends.

Glad cold water worked for you Ken! Great write up and sweet setup. Here's a banner for you buddy.

Thank you @Robyflexx .
Ken P

Sunday Shave

Brush- RazoRock Tri-Colored
Razor- The Bunny with Wild comb and Schick Type G
Blade- Schick (2)
Soap- Stirling Barbershop
Post Care- Crystal Alum
Thayers Witch Hazel with grapefruit EO and M-Bomb
Pinaud Bay Rum
Florida Water with M-Bomb

Final shave with the Bunny, it's been a pleasure to try and I'll miss it. Same equipment as the last shave except I switched sides. The Bunny got my left side, the Type G got the right. As usual, the Stirling produced a wonderful lather with possibly my favorite scent. I did three passes again and here's the result.
First pass was WTG with both and I had great reduction, I like how audible the Bunny is and how easy it is to clean out. The Type G makes it easier to get into tight spots because of its head size however I still prefer the Bunny. Second pass I went XTG, the Bunny finished this pass closer than the Schick. Third pass was ATG and I'm left with a BBS with the Bunny, DFS with the Schick. The Bunny just gets closer. There was a little bit of feedback from the alum on my left side, zero from the Schick. Even with the feedback the Bunny still wins. I'm definitely smoother on my left side. I think with a little cleanup I'd be BBS with the Schick so that is comforting me since the Bunny moves on tomorrow.
Have a great day folks!

Great write up Ben and beautiful photo.

Thank you Rob!

Nice setup and photo.

Thank you Douglas!

Nice looking setup Douglas Carey.

Thank you for your kind words. I guess they weren't kidding when they guaranteed it for life.

Just wanted to let everyone know I put a thread on the brush page. Let's see some of your brushes.

Ken P.

Nice looking razor porn around these parts I see. I also see a few names I notice. It will take me a bit to read through all this and catch up looks like.