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18 July 2017 OLD Blade Focus Shave
Pre: Hot water, soap from the puck, hot towel
Razor: 1911 Gillette OLD
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: USS Belleau Wood tribute brush by
@jimjo1031, JJ#1
Soap: Catie's Bubbles "Florentine Fern"
Post: Hot/Cold water rinse, alum block, cold towelx2, Dominello Vitali Calming Post Shave Moisturizer
After Shave: Speick for Men
Erfrischende Pflege
Today's shave was special.
@jimjo1031 took a casual PM conversation and turned it into the great custom brush you see above. My Dad served on the USS Belleau Wood, CVL-24 from the time it was commissioned in 1943 to the end of the war. He crossed the Equator, turning him from a "slimy polliwog" into a Shellback. The ship earned 11 battle stars and after the war was sold to the French Navy, where it again served honorably before finally being scrapped.
So today I took the brush for it's shakedown cruise. As I would expect, it performed just like "The Eleven Star Lady". The soap was from Catie's Bubbles, so 60 seconds on the puck and JJ#1 was locked and loaded. Some swirling in my Lenox shave bowl and more swirling on my face led to a 2.5 pass BBS shave from the OLD/Shark combo.
Splashed on some Speick for Men and my Tuesday was off to a terrific start.
In closing I'd just like to say, that if you know or are related to a WWII vet, give 'em a hug, shake their hand and thank 'em for saving the world from Fascism & Totalitarianism. Last I read, we lose about two thousand of 'em a day.
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