What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

Thanks Steve!

 

A wonderful shave from another Ragg

Hot water preparation
Argan Oil PSO
Shavemac 2-Band Silvertip Badger
Ethos Lissle Collection Lavender Shave Soap
John & William Ragg Napoleon 6/8
Ethos Lissle Collection Lavender Skin Food Splash



Happy shaving - Karl

 

Beautiful!

Chris - enjoying learning, whatever the subject

 

Friday morning.



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This is around my 12th shave with a straight, Starting to fall into place now and really enjoying it. Was surprised that the GD is still holding a great edge despite my clumsy stropping.

Gold Dollar (bought honed and shave ready - and it was!)
NOS Culmak soap
Yaqi synth
Floid

 

That is great to hear and welcome to the straight razor world!!!

Frameback marked “Best Razor”
Suds: Declaration Grooming Nightman
Splash: Zingari Man The Soloist

Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

7/8 Muschel
Rubberset 200 Horse hair brush
Viking No Scent Shaving Cream
Creed Green Irish Tweed

Put her on the strop while pre shave cream settled. A hot lather applied by the horse hair brush and she shaved through my whiskers like a hot butcher knife through melted butter. Very comfortable to hold. The blade glides nicely and is easy to control. Even the toe cleanly shaved under my nose with little effort. Glad I added her to my rotation.

 

Welcome @Lou61 -glad to have you with is!

Tanifuji Spalding, cream was T&H lavender (why would a major manufacturer discontinue their lavender (and rose!) cream?) and a splash of SMN lavande finished up a great spring morning shave.

 

Saturday Straights' Shave


Cold Water Rinse
Vintage Life Licorice Shave Soap
The Brush B-3 by Tom
Fredrick Reynolds 5/8
CWR
Pinaud Lilac Vegetal AS

The Vintage Life Licorice Shave Soap lathered well with The Brush B-3 by Tom. Two passes and touch ups with the Fredrick Reynolds 5/8 razor blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Pinaud Lilac Vegetal AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Unknown maker kamisori, purchased from Alex Gilmore on the trip last year. His wife (who is Japanese) didn’t even know who made them. Soap was MdC agrumes lathered with a @Life2short1971 two-band, and Myrsol Limon finished things up

 

Could it be Shizu Saburo like mine? I am not that skilled in Japanese, but mine is bought as that name.



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According to ‘Zwilling’ over at ATG, they have the mark of Kunitomo Ikkansai, an early 19th century gun maker! Alexsaid that they could be 1800s, and looks like that he was correct.

 

My near wedge Lund gave a shave as good as it looks. Smooth and flawless

Hot water preparation
Argan Oil PSO
Romera Wengue Chubby Manchurian Badger
Castle Forbes Lavender Shaving Cream
Lund near wedge 11/16
Castle Forbes Lavender After Shave Balm



Happy shaving - Karl

 

PacKard 222 Silver Steel
Suds: Mike’s Natural Wild Honeysuckle
Finish: DUA Fragrances Wild Neroli

Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

Today’s Early evening shave
The Starter “Lux” razor
Barbasol shaving cream
Synthetic brush
Old Spice aftershave

I just touched up this blade on my new stone.
Worked great!


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Beautiful blade. How does yours act, on strops?? The reason is because the ones I have, with intricately scrolled spines, like to dig into my Illinois 827 strop. Perhaps because the strop is a rough cut strop, and that has something to do with mine.

 

Thank you Scott. This one behaves nicely, no noticeable difference with the spine decoration. I’m using a well worn Tony Miller plain vanilla, seems pretty slick.

 

Try a layer of 1 mil Kapton on the spine when stropping.