February 13, 2020 Rex Ambassador Gillette 7 O’clock Black Alpha 400 with Maggard SHD TOBS Mr. Taylors Shave Cream Small Batch Shave Tonic My wife brought me back a couple of creams, a soap and a brush from the TOBS store in London. I have decided to use he Mr Taylors cream regularly in an effort to use it up. The cream works great but the scent is just meh in my book and disappears long before the shave is done. I dialed the Ambassador back to 3.5. Wow what a difference after 5. Very smooth and drama free three pass shave. After touch up my jawline and buffing my lower right neck, I ended with a BBS shave. A splash of Small Batch Shave Tonic seemed to go with the wet nasty weather today. I hope everyone has a great Thursday.
What a treat to play a foursome with @9nein9, @BaylorGator, and DJT! Just make sure you double check their scores.
I always try to side light my pictures. I'll sometimes use a mirror to cast light in from the opposite side. Yesterday and today's picture I decided to forgo the mirror and leave the heavy shadows.
SOTD Thursday 02/13/20 Thought I’d begin today’s shave with some closeups of the only safety bar design LaResche ever made. The 77 model has a sharply arched top cap fitting on a narrow baseplate. The only modern razor that is similar is the Fine Marvel. Both are formidable looking razors. And surprisingly, both are smooth and highly efficient shavers. The Model 77 has a thinner top cap which is subject to bending and thus delivering a highly aggressive shave according to some of the experts on B&B. Mine delivers a smooth highly efficient shave, so I suspect does not possess a bent top cap. The blade gap is easily more than 2mm. The shave was epic. The Viking brush generated its usual thick, yogurty, glistening lather. of which the Model 77 made good use. I kept my shaving strokes purposefully short and ended up with a bloodless, two pass BBS, albeit one that took a great deal longer than my shaves with the Model 51. It was not irritation-free, however, as the alum block revealed some slight heat around my usual trouble spots - the Adam’s Apple and middle of the back of my head - which the Fine Snake Bite reinforced. I attribute that to operator error in relearning my way around this razor. In any case, I feel clean, smooth, cool, and refreshed. RAZOR: LaResche 77 BLADE: Wizamet Super Iridium PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Cube Preshave Soap BRUSH: Viking Silvertip Badger SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers LavenderWH and finished with Fine Accoutrements Snake Bite AS Splash
oh OK...and does the half resemble Stoylin, Chiseled Fce, etc....with tallow, or is it more "soapy" like the 4?
