Nice post, Sensei. I cannot imagine that Bay Rum, liberally applied, would ever offend anyone.

Thank you Jason. The Skully brush is made by Brent Jacobson of
https://zagoon.wixsite.com/shave/skully. He is a member of one of the FB groups I belong to.

Hi all!
Using the Devette and a new Feather blade.
I tried a new shaving cream.

Van Der Hagan Whipped Shave Cream.
I started with trying to get it to lather and was impossible in a mug, it just disappeared.
So I decided that I was using it incorrectly.
I took a glob of it on my fingers and smeared it on my face.
It's very slick and then sticky, can it be both??
So sticky that I had a difficult time washing it off my fingers and so slick I couldn't hold the razor to shave.
Dawn dish soap took it off so I could hold the razor.
The first pass using this stuff was ok, just ok.
I found it so sticky it was difficult rinsing it off the razor.
I used the brush to apply it for the 2cd pass.
Not much better.
Adding water didn't seem to help.
Washing it out of the brush was a challenge too.
A liberal application of dawn soap helped clean it up.
I stopped....
I lathered up some Tobac and shaved the gord.
Now the VDH soap has a nice scent, like tobacco, but it's more a kin to lithium grease than shaving, uh ...cream.
Guess I'll just have to figure out how to use the stuff before I try shaving with it again.
Any advice on using this white grease is welcome.

The razor....
All I can say is that I am surprised, appreciative, and humbled to own such a tool!
Tom @twhite and Joseph @Primotenore .
Two gentlemen if there ever was.
Thanks!
Enjoy!
tp

Excellent shave Myles. I am a fan of that powder. Have been using it over 30 years daily following my shower.

Interesting challenge presented by the soap.

Wonderful shave Jeff. Curious to see what you might list.

Thanks Maestro! A year and a half ago, I was in the teacher's lounge. With an unpleasant look, a young female teacher commented that something smells like medicine. I commented it must be my aftershave. It was the Bay Rum.

Thank you Jeff. Tomorrow I will flip it 180 degrees to crock the other side of your neck to balance you out.

That's a kind way of putting it Joe.
Not sure quite where I'm going wrong, yet.
Thanks
tp

My paternal grandfather was a bricklayer in Brooklyn. He worked on many of the apartment buildings owned by Donald Trump’s father.

You had an interesting shave Terry. I have used the VDH soap and never had a problem with it. However, I didn't know they made a shave cream so I never used it. My guess would be to wet your face with plenty of water and load the brush with double the amount than you normally use with a shave cream. Lather your face in the usual way and hopefully that will do the trick. I surmise that you didn't have enough cream on the brush. I could be wrong, but I also could be right.

Thanks Joe!
I'm gonna play with it a little.
I'll try what you suggested.
tp

Terry,
It pleases me to no end how happy you are with this razor. It was my pleasure to receive it from @twhite and it was doubly my pleasure to see that it stayed in your hands. Enjoy it and I hope you have many, many years of pleasurable shaves with the De-Vette.

Maybe you need to try a better Bay Rum? I have a few suggestions for you, if you are interested.

My concern is that the non-fragranced soap might have a naturally unpleasant scent.

Most excellent shave Joe.

A million thanks Joseph!
Truly a great razor!
tp

Thank you Jeff

Very enjoyable. Thank you Danny.

Excellent shave.

Fabulous

Wonderful looking shave Evan.

Sounds like you were shaving with Crisco instead of a shaving cream.
Good save with the Tabac, Terry!

Instead...you could have replied, "It must be the Icy-Hot I had to put on my shoulder after that big tackle playing rugby."