7/8 Petruccelli Made by Filarmonica Jose Monserrat RS 1010 Steel
Had a wonderful shave with this Vintage Spanish Blade .Was BBS in two passes .This razor gave me a very smooth and close shave .

Lovely Straight's Keith

Great Find Tom Beautiful Straight

F. Herder

Thanks, Gary.

Thanks Mike!
And very cool Petruccelli - love the tie to JMP. If I remember correctly, I might have been a competitor with you for that blade .

Shave #44 with the Sub Cero edge longevity test. Still going well... Soap was 3P lathered with a lotus-handled Shavemac finest, and a dab of ABC apricot hull balm got me ready for a chilly morning.

Challenge Cutlery “Celebrated Rifle Razor” circa 1920’s

http://www.strazors.com/index.php?id=327&doc=challenge_cutlery_company_bridgeport_conn_

Large to small, but not small in the shave department! St Joanis ‘Le Triomphe’, soap was the great-for-fall I Coloniali Mango Oil soap lathered with a M&F Alibaba Finest, perfect size and stiffness for getting into that small bowl and lathering that hard soap. A dab of the I Coloniali Rhubarb balm finished off a BDBS shave that smells great with autumn air and leaves.

My first pass with this or any Torrey. I give it an ‘A’. I just brought the edge back today, but it hadn’t gone far. 5/8 barber’s notch. Maybe my best shaving antique store find to date.


There was some Omega cream, some Cella, and a very old original knot boar in the mix.

8/8 Rigarazor Tungsten

Had a fantastic shave with this blade.It just removed whiskers with little effort.

Dorko 7/8

Hollow ground Salamander circa 1920

Saturday Straights' Shave​

Cold Water Rinse
Palmolive Shave Cream
Jayaruh #41
J.R.Torrey 5/8
Gem Contour
CVS CS SE
CWR
Aqua Velva Musk

My prep was just a cold water rinse. The Palmolive Shave Cream face lathered well with the Jayaruh #41 Badger Brush. I did two passes with the J.R.Torrey 5/8 razor and a cleanup pass with the Gem Contour with CVS blade and ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, I finished off with Aqua Velva Musk AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...​

Shave #45 with the Filly 14 Sub Cero edge longevity test. It’s still shaving quite smoothly. Cream was SMN lathered with a 2-band Rooney-shaped brush, and the AS was SMN body cream. I really like the body cream as an AS, it’s thin for a body cream (it’s not a cream at all) but right for AS balm. It isn’t greasy or sticky, and the scent is true. It’s $10 more than the SMN alcohol-based lotion, but there’s 2-1/2 times as much. I’d recommend it if you’re a fan of SMN tobacco toscano.

SOTD
Tosuke Wa-Kamisori
Shavemac 26mm Badger, Horn set
Uberlather Salter Wild Rose cream / Classic Rose soap / 5 drops Glycerin
Snurdle Dipper
Bison Hide strop
Lilac Vegetal

S-M-O-O-T-H

The "Shan" says we are going to town to an Arts and Crafts show.. I am thinking about doing some day drinking

7/8 + Tally-Ho C.T. Bingham Late F.Fenney Faux Frameback

Had a Fantastic shave with this Vintage Sheffield Blade .I finished this blade on a J-Nat than did several hundred Laps on the Surgical Black .The edge is outstanding . Love the J-Nat /Arkie combo .
The Blade with it weight and smile just destroyed the whiskers with almost no effort .
Love the balance and efficiency of this blade .
Just enjoy using a tool that is 170 years old that does an incredible job.

Wow! Gorgeous Damascus blade, Tom. Does it take a good edge? Sometimes they’re tough to get sharp.

Korrat 14 2.0
Strop Martin J. Rubin 4601 New York
Muhle Fibre Silvertip XL
Boellis Panama 1924
Tom Ford Noir Balm
Tom Ford Noir Edp​

Randy, all I had to do was strop it and go. Very enjoyable shave.