That'd be great, Gary. Those ads were when time was innocent, worry-free, easy-going.

random quick pic friday shave
1954 canadian tech
platinum
custom badger
erasmic soap
ferrari black

good morning gents.random quick pic shave this morning,last year for the canadian made tech,1954,custom Keith made brush built a fine erasmic lather,fine bbs in 3 laps.ferrari black to finish.a nice cheap tobacco scented fragrance.awesome..getting the gear ready for the G7DC as i see some are calling it,cool..hoping for one last item to show..will post pics after the mail drop..have a fine friday everyone..

awesome shave Paul,good morning..

Thank you Gary-it is cooler today, so I can bring some winter gear closer to the front of my den(course we'll still have some warm days I'm sure, but hopefully this is the end of the humidity). How are you?

Thank you, Jason! I'll have to defer to you about the resin pour. It's hard for me to capture in the picture just how translucent it is. Here is a better photo I took a couple years ago.

Very nice, Pierpaolo!

SOTD FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11 (A day to rival December 7)

Well I tried this Baume.BE stuff everyone was raving about. I was planning on using it for my G7DC starting tomorrow, but after today will shelve it for my den clearance coming up in a week or two. I may have received a bad batch; it was yellow and stubbornly refused to produce a decent lather, and believe me I tried everything - little water, lots of water, face lathering, bowl lathering, three different brushes - to no effect. The lather produced was frankly meh, and not slick at all! Thank heavens for Argan oil which did add sufficient slickness. I completed the shave, but certainly will not use this stuff again!

Other than the sub par lathering experience, the rest of the shave went well. The Saito SK3 could easily become one of my favorite razors. It delivered the same level of velveteen shave it delivered on its first outing. I loaded my Schick Type L Paul Revere with a Schick Twinjector blade and cleaned my dome stubble right down to the skin line. I’ll admit that after my mug lather, I grabbed for my faithful Nancy Boy and had a great velveteen dome shave. The Paul Revere has usually been a relatively mild safety razor, but the Schick Twinjector seemed to increase its efficiency. The shave was refreshing, cooling and velveteen despite the dud lather start. All worked well. I feel refreshed and ready for the day!

RAZOR: Saito SK3 (Mug), Schick Type L International Silver Paul Revere Model (Dome)
BLADE: Schick Injector II
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by Argan oil
BRUSH: Alpha Shaving T-400 Tribute w/ Two Band Badger Ferrule
CREAM: Baume.BE (Mug). Nancy Boy Signature (Dome)
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with NB brush squeezings followed by Humphreys Lilac WH and Osage Rub. Finished with Pre de Provence Bergamot & Thyme Balm.

I'm in.
I'll use my new favourite RazoRock BBS, with Italian Noxema Preshave, Tabac stick and the Voskhod blades that just arrived, Zenith Boar Chubby Scrubby brush and Thayers after.
This Italian Noxema Preshave is very nice, but expensive and so prob won't get again.

Thank you Myles. I am not sure if the stores are still open in Atlanta. My wife somehow gets notices of their sales and orders online.

Thank you Gary.

weather pattern is starting to cool down a bit.we did have a surprise heat wave and broke some records for this area.fall is coming..

very cool..fine set up ..

Love the shave and photo Gary.

awesome set up and pic Jeff.shame about the Baume.be.like you said ,probably a bad batch..would probably bin it..i can't imagine those that love it would be shaving with a sub par product..

The bottom part of the handle is what many resins looks like without any colour added. Some are billed as being completely clear, but the one you have is a more common resin look. There are definitely professionals out there who know a heck of a lot more than me, but I'd guess the colours were added very gently with something like an eyedropper so that they wouldn't mix too much. The person might have even waited a bit for the clear resin to start to harden a touch in the blank before adding the colour, too. Very cool work.

very cool..

just after world war 2 you mean?

SEptember 11th
GEM MMOC
Simpson CH2 Synthetic
Jeeves OHS Key Lime SS
Thayers
Stirling Bergamot Lavender AS

Quite a nice shave early this morning. The MMOC was tame and I'm a little sandpaper on the lower neck short of being completely smooth. The Jeeves is such a nice lather still and I've got a few Stirling samples I can get through for the focus for sure. Not much left in this soap, but I'm not even going to try to guess how many days. The soap destroyer will help it, I'm sure.
Have a great day all!

Oh, good point! Well, I just meant that simple ads like that seemed to happen is my early life-the JFK Assassination&later Vietnam changed everything(IMO).

Definitely a blue ribbon shave Paul!