Thank You..Dans Stones Come Lapped Flat..They Just Need a Few Minutes with a Fine Grit Wet n Dry..I Used 350/1000 Grit..I Took this Razor off at 16 K Cause its a Sheffield Blade..This Stone has a 20 K Finishing Capacity..They are Not Slow if You Put Down a Higher Grit Edge on them as a Pre Finisher..I Put Down a 16 K Synthetic Lapping Film Edge.. There is So Much Slow Mo Guff Written about Em in Forums..Takes a Few Minutes is All..Its How You Use Em.. Billy..
Tanifuji Cape 1000 on shave #25 for Easter morning. Joyeuses Pâques à tous! The soap is unscented XPEC hand-scented with Domenico Caraceni 1913 and lathered up with a pretty little Tulip 2. Finished the shave off with D. R. Harris Pink AS. Cheers, Steve
7/8 Dorko I needed to be clean shaven for Easter .So I broke out the 7/8 Dorko .She was recently refreshed on an Escher and Yellow Lake hone .She gave me a just about perfect shave .The blade edge is extremely keen and smooth .She is one of my favourites .My only other blades that can surpass her would be my Tiger,and a few of my Swedish and Japanese treasures .
How do you find your Kent BLK12 I have a love hate relationship with it. Mine is 6mos old and had it in daily use for about a month or 2. I find that I loose one or 2 Bristol’s everytime and the hairs feel like they are breaking. Like a dry feeling. Nothing like it was new but still feels great on the skin... lather hog in my opinion lol. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I always get a better shave with near wedge or heavier grinds. I’m not opposed to full hollow or extra hollow I just don’t get the shave I get from the wedge. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Thank you sir, it’s a very plain or conservatively styled razor, plain black scales and no blade decoration, but a Swedish steel Japanese razor is hard to beat for its intended purpose. Cheers, Steve
Shave of the Day Joe Chandler 7/8 Custom Poraso Azure Lime Taconic Pre & Aftershave Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk
My W&B is perfect in nearly every way. Lovely two pass shave today. It makes shaving easy and a pleasure.... OK, I could do without that point catching some loose skin now and then. Hot water preparation AOS Lavender PSO Mike’s Natural Soaps Hungarian Lavender Romera Wengue Chubby Manchurian Badger W&B 6/8 AOS Lavender After Shave Balm Happy shaving - Karl
That is some a fine Japanese razor. The big Dorko razors are so tempting. Thank you I am very satisfied with mine, it has not shed a hair. It is an enormous pillow of softness. Highly recommend, currently my favorite in the den. Wow, you don’t see a Joe Chandler every day.
I have a thing for those swayback English hollows. I'll have to post one or two of mine now. Cheers, Steve
Some amazing razors being used this holiday weekend - thank you all for sharing. There does seem to be some heavy hitters, so while not pretty, I am going large and personalized... And in black & white to hide the blemishes . Razor: Wade & Butcher For Barbers Only (17/16” heavily modified) Brush: Shavemac 24mm Silvertip D01 Soap: Fine Platinum A/S: Same Now off to the garage to replace my brake pads. Enjoy your shave! Tom
Well Karl G got me digging in the razor stash for one of my own swayback English shorties and I had a superb shave this morning. It's a Wostenholm Celebrated IXL in the original horn scales honed on a stellar jnat and lathered up with Acqua di Parma cream. Those whiskers just jumped off my face in fear before the razor ever touched them... lol. Cheers, Steve
Crown & Sword Oleo Polar Shavemac silver tip 2 band The Polar is a duck fat soap I'll wait a shave or 2 before I comment on it but it didn't "wow" me. Decent shave this morning but honestly not quite up to snuff. Have a good one.
