What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

I love the red imp. This is the second one I have owned. This came up for sale a long time ago and the condition was just unbelievable and price was great. I jumped on it and then sold the old one I had. The only thing I didn't like was the secondary strop. it was the like was coated linen. I replaced it with the cotton secondary off of a Japanese strop I had. So now it has the japanese cotton for a secondary. The red imp strop is just a great workhorse. Right now I have a rotation of the red imp, dubl duck cordovan special no 1, Tony miller steerdovan, and parker latigo 3" strop. Which if anyone is interested the guy I got the parker from still has a couple for like 35 bucks maybe 45. I cant remember right now. He is on the bay. The parker latigo strops are normally like 65. And it is a great strop as well.

 

7/8 C. V. Heljestrand No 140 in ivory, a favorite razor. It’s twin is in black horn. Soap was ABC hard soap lathered with a Rooney 1/3 Silvertip, and a little ABC balm finished up another BDBS shave.

 

Cracked scales?

 

7/8+ Jonathan Breidora 19 Made for the South American Market

Had a wonderful shave with this Vintage Solingen Blade .The blade just wiped the whiskers away.Blade handles very well .Steel is just awesome.This razor is just some of the best quality the skilled tradesman of Solingen produced in the day .

 

Just beautiful Mike.

Steve, always a pleasure to see those Heljestrands.

 

Beautiful razor. Just beautiful

 

Tonights Shave

C-Mon Special 13/16
Taylor of Old Bond Street Sandalwood
Rubberset 400/4 Silvertip 24mm
Dunhill Edition EDT

 

The Wade & Butcher worked it’s magic and left me super smooth today. Wonderful shave

Hot water preparation
Argan Oil PSO
Romera Wengue Chubby Manchurian Badger
Wade & Butcher 6/8
Castle Forbes Lavender Shaving Cream
Thayers Rose Petal Witch Hazel



Happy shaving - Karl

 

Joseph Smith 6/8 wedge this morning. These Sheffield wedges are interesting. Coming off a full hollow you get none of the audible feedback and I was wondering if it was even shaving... yes, it was. And quite well. They’re just very smooth and quiet!


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SATURDAY 2-22

It was time for me to give my straights some attention.

Preshave - Proraso green
Brush - Stirling High Mountain White Badger
Bowl - Symmetrical Pottery
Lather fuel - Stirling for Him
Razor - Dovo 91 Sunday Shaver
Strop - 40/80 Rasoir Sabre denim/horsehide
Post - alum & rinse, Thayers Unscented witch hazel, Proraso Green Aftershave Balm, Trumpers Lime Skin food, Stirling For Him AS splash



As far as 'the stuff' goes, I know it is a lot, but it is the way it was for my first 30 day rule. It never failed me so I go back to it once in awhile.

I was after total comfort today so I did the hot towel routine and everything else.

Went for 4 light touch passes and finished up with as good a straight shave as I ever got. Relaxing and fun.

The Sunday Shaver was sent out for a 30k Shapton edge, which was quite edgey. I mellowed it out some on pasted balsa.

Edison Carter reporting for Network 23 or 20 minutes into the future.
Shave free!

 

Nice one @Karl G - I have a weak spot for those old hollow, swayback Sheffields!

 

I like that lather bowl, it looks very steampunk. Is that from Etsy? I think I saw one similar to it there.

 

Symmetrical Pottery I believe, I have one of the older ones that isn’t as striking as Bill’s. Good stuff.

 

Thank you. I looked and they have both a direct website and an Etsy page. Great looking pottery.

 

https://www.symmetricalpottery.com/products

They may have an Etsy store too.

All made to order. Make sure to review the various options. On this one you could get: a soap pocket, a brush holder, a fitted lid. Not cheap, so I planted the idea of a birthday gift with the estrogen units. Voila it showed up.

 

It looks great, I keep looking but can't find one in that condition.

 

Robert Williams Purist, first shave after a touch up on my Shapton Glass 16k. Now the edge is as scary as the razor looks.

 

Newly scaled and honed W&B Celebrated 15/16.

 

Gorgeous photo, @joamo ! Those two were made for one another and/or you know some tricks with lighting.

 

This ivory Joseph Rodgers was being shave-tested as a potential restoration project. It was once a large heavy blade with the lightening groove beneath the spine, but it’s been reground. The regrind wasn’t great but it isn’t borked either, it’s mostly just UGLEE with the remains of the groove left. Why they didn’t take it all the way put is beyond me, it’s very shallow. You can also see that the edge should be re-profiled and this is especially noticeable at the heel.

I wanted to hone and shave with it to ensure that it still has it’s temper, and it does. It honed like hard steel on the Shapton Glass, and it shaved lime a dream.

Soap was Eufros Rosa Oud lathered with a Rooney Beehive 1, and the AS was Harris Pink. In spite of all the abuse heaped on this razor over the years, it shaved as well as anything I have.