Wednesday Prep: Hot shower Coffee: Home roasted Rwanda/Starbucks French Roast mix, BLACK Soap: Vintage Old Spice Brush: C&E Pure Badger Injector: Schick E Model Blade: ???, day 3, 3+ passes Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Dickenson's WH + 2 drops M Bomb, Pinaud Clubman 'Stache Wax: Steve's Own Shave Rating: 4 Blades So far with each passing shave, this blade has gotten smoother. Darn near 5 blades today. Makes me wonder how the first two shaves might have been if I had been able to hand strop 'em like I do all my other blades. :signs002
A long hot shower. Choose a Parker badger to whip up some great Mitchell's Wool Fat lather. Two days of growth, a Gillette Fat Handle Tech with an Asco blade. Four passes I had a great shave felt great afterwards. Follow-up with Thayers Witch Hazel w/ Rose Water.
Gillette SS British Set No.58 Gillette Silver Blue (4) Mühle Best Badger Cyril R. Salter Classic Almond Aqua Velva Ice Blue AS Have a nice day! :001_smile
You guys take some excellent photos. *********** Merkur 45 Bakelite Shark SC Simpson Wee Scot Speick Shave Stick Alum Boosted Superior 70 Bay Rum A simple but nice shave this evening.
Injector week: Day 3 Yes. Yes it is It is one of my favorite shave thingies. And thank you. Knotty Roddy has one too. They are damn cool. $2 ha! @ Lloyd: Thanks, I had no idea that it was even remotely special. Thanks for the info. Nice to know I was sitting on a gem @ Bill (Dridecker): One day sir, something really good is going to happen to you. I don't know how, who, when, but I do know why. Hell, I don't even believe in karma, but your kindness will be avenged! *shakes fist* And thanks again :ashamed001 Don't worry Phil, we are all paying attention. I was really considering squirreling away some shave money so I could get one of these and their rust and lack of response to someone who shelled out >$200 for a product is really kinda pissing us all off. It isn't unnoticed. Ok, onto the shave: Schick L1 injector MWF The Dridecker Ted Pella (3) boosted AV musk AS Yep. Pressure. That is what kept me from having an outstanding shave on Monday. I suspected it yesterday when I checked my fundamentals and had an awesome shave and did so again today. I'm really glad we did this. I just love my DEs so much that the injectors kinda fell off my radar. Really good razors and having the added bonus of finding out I have an "interesting" one too makes it all the cooler. So, the MWF performed really well, as usual, and The Dridecker did too. Finished it off with the AV musk and went to work smiling. 90% BBS today and 100% comfy. 4 out of 5 blades.
June, 30 After yesterday's SOTQ discussion I feeled nostalgic, so I returned to my TSD set up: TSD preshave balm ( :love055 :love008) 8/8 W&B restored by Glen Paddle strop Vie-Long horsehair brush Ceramic painted bowl TSD Cantaloupe soap ( :love055 :love008) Cold water rag TSD AS English Fern Milk ( :love055 :love008) JoAnna's products suits each other wery well! What a nice shave it was! Nice glide and plenty of protection, very softening and soothing. And I just needed to bowl lather such a nice scented soap! DFS+!
Old Style head on Star handle/Perma-Sharp blade/ Wilkinson Sword/ Wee Scot/ Clubman Musk First use of the Wee Scot, and I was very surprised by the amount of lather this micro brush held. Great shaves today , Gentlemen.
Happy Wednesday From South Carolina! Hot Shower Chubbz I Arko Schick Injector Type I-2 EMS Blade (1) Cold Water Rag Skin Bracer Blue 3 Passes = DFS! Put in 12 hours today, prolly another 12 tomorrow. At least I get to start with a great shave!
Prep: Hot Shower Soap: Arko Brush: Shavemac 177 Razor: Dovo 5/8ths 'Best' Toner: Thayers Lemon W.H. A/S: Pinaud Clubman Balm: Nivea Sensitive ASB
Great looking set-up you got there buddy...Looks alot like my set-up... That razor looks like its going 90mph setting still....Due to a fine gentleman here at the Den I have one just like it...I treasure it, and can never thank him enough...
Lloyd, my brother-in-law asked me for some Rapiras, and for the 1st time, I refused to him--I want those blades all to myself! :happy102
Crackstar...thats soo funny happy102:happy102 INJECTOR WEEK-DAY3 (HUMP-DAY) Thursday June 29th, 2011 3rd day of Injector Week! -1954 Schick Hydro-Magic Injector with EMS/Personna (Day1) -Omega 10029 Baby-Pro Boar -Arko Shave Stick/Arko Max.Comf.SC -Arko Nem moisturizer/Arko Aqua/Rebul Lavenda Cologne -Guerlain Habit Rouge Today I totally contradict what I said yesturday...Then I was crying how the Schick was a 1 pass DFS'er and I missed the leisurely 3 pass and touch-up I do with my DE's...And when I tried that with my Schick on Tuesday it was TOO close....Well Bob was talking about how easy it is to use pressure with these guys, so I took it to heart and today I did a 3 pass + touch-up complete with razor buffing and J-hooking...I used NO pressure and had a BLAST :happy108...Absolutely NO irritation and this is closer than BBS...Baby's bottoms would be jealous...
Thursday, June 30th Hot shower Nivea for Men Extreme Comfort gel Wilkinson Quattro Titanium razor L'Oreal Paris Men Expert VitaLift moisturizer Davidoff Echo EdT
Thursday - injector week continues G Series Injector vie-long gonzalo brush tabac alum, witch hazel, osage rub, Diplomat Fresh AS
Thursday - another day closer. Prep: Hot shower, soak brush Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Rwanda, BLACK Soap/Cream: C&E Sandalwood super lather Brush: Mohawk 3-338 Injector: Schick E Model Blade: ???, day 4, 3+ passes Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Dickenson's WH, B&BW Oak 'Stache Wax: Steve's Own Shave Rating: 4 Blades Another really good shave. Again, not as smooth as I've had with my DEs, convincing me all the more that hand stropping does give a smoother shave. I have enjoyed the injector week, though. Props to Lloyd!! :happy088 :happy088
Happy Thursday From South Carolina! Hot Shower Chubbz I Arko PAL Injectomatic EMS Blade (?) Cold Water Rag Skin Bracer Blue DFS In Three Have a great day Ya'll!
Thursday June 30th, 2011 4th day of Injector Week! -Schick Type E Injector w/ Schick blade (1) -Crabtree and Evelyn Mixed (badger and boar) brush -Vitos Green SC -Dickeson's Witch Hazel scented w/ Rose Water -Barbasol Brisk -Grey Flannel (aquatic variation)
Injector Week-day 4 Schick type C injector EMS blade Vintage Williams (Glastonbury) soap Vintage Ever-Ready 300 brush Aqua Velva This beautiful Schick is on loan from a member at B&B, and wow, it is a great razor. It is so much heavier than any other injectors I have used.