SoS: October 17-23, 2011

Saturday morning,

Gillette NEW Long Comb,
Gillette Bleue Extra Blade,
Rooney 1/1 Best Badger Brush,
Arko shave soap w/ hot water lather,
finish w/ cold water rinse. DFS!

After an excellent week with the Schick Injector, it's back to my go-to razor, Gillette NEW Open Comb, for a DFS!

 

Saturday

Razor: 6/8 JM Scmhid & Son
Brush: Omega Boar
Soap: Institut Karite
A/S: Polo

Excellent Saturday shave, if brief because I was getting ready to go to the store to get things to cook for my wife on her birthday. No DE touch up required again...I think I'm starting to get the hang of using a straight! Polo (my wife's favorite) provided an excellent finish to a very good shave.

 

Good Looking lather my fellow Floridian. Gorgeous these past few days.

 

Saturdays's Shower and Shave
Hot Shower
Parker Badger lathered Cedar and Lemon
Gillette Tech loaded with a 7O'clock Black
Colonia
(Thanks Jeff for the great products used today)
Three passes I had one very DFS.

 

Saturday, October 22

Razor: Merkur Futur
Blade: Gillette Platinum
Brush: Semogue Boar
Pre-Shave: Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Soap: MWF
A/S: DRH Marlborough

An excellent shave!

 

Happy Birthday to swmbo

 

5/8 Taylor's Eyewitness 1000
Rooney Boar
Williams Tonsorial Vintage Soap
Home Mentholated Thayers Cucumber Witch Hazel
Lab Series AS Balm
Music-Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Nice start to a Saturday evening

 

Nice setup. I like the razor and the Rooney. I've never seen a Rooney like that one.

 

Put a warning on those pictures. I need my sun glasses.

 

Your pictures just get nicer and nicer, my brother!

 

Thanks. My wife found the brush at an estate sale-$5! It shed for about 10 uses and I was getting concerned about breaking in a useless brush-it finally
stopped the last time I used it. I don't use boar very often but it's really growing on me.

 

Merkur Futur
Voskhod
New Forrest 2204
Mama Bear's Awakenings
Proraso Splash

Got a cold. Great time for Awakenings...

 

Thank you very much!!!

I am still learning. I need to learn more about settings, but for now the new FujiFilm camera is doing an excellent job on auto setting.

 

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Pre-shave soap: Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Razor: Merkur Futur
Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock Yellow
Brush: Vie-Long Gonzalo Boar/Horse
Cream/Soap: Provence Sante Verlaine Soap
A/S: Dickinson's Witch Hazel, Provence Sante Verlaine Splash

A very fine shave--the Gonzalo easily whipped up a great lather. The Verlaine scent has components of linden and verbena (U.S. terminology). We have a linden tree in our back yard, and my wife often grows verbena in the flower garden. When in bloom, both scents are wonderful. To my uneducated nose, there seems to be an added citrus note in the PS Verlaine splash. Very nice.

 

Sunday, October 23. Good Morning!

Give 'em Some Cheap "Cost Effective" Love

Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers Original Blend
Prep: Hot shower w/Pre de Provence 20% Shea Butter Soap, wash face with Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Razor: Edwin Jagger DE87
Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock Blue
Cream: ARKO Stick (grated)
Brush: D.R. Harris H1
Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Floid Blue After Shave Splash

Note: After all the reading and recommendation from Nick, I finally decided to try some ARKO Stick. I grated the stick in to an empty Cella red container and compacted it by covering it in wax paper and applying pressure with a small Mickey Mouse juice glass. After letting my brush soak it HOT water, I loaded it with soap, then using an old antique Dunkin Donut coffee cup, whipped up this whip cream type lather. Wow! What a shave. Now the smell, what smell? It smells like a bar of Ivory soap, which to me is kind of refreshing.

Arko is now in my rotation. No doubt, the cheapest shave out there. And as Nick would say, DFS!



Have a GREAT day.

 

Sunday: some Portuguese love

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Rapira day 3
Musgo Real SC
Musgo Real Classic AS

A shave like this just can't get any better - 3 passes with this delightful cream and my absolute favorite razor/blade combination gave me a super-ultra BBS result. Again, I didn't use any moisturizer, and I didn't need it, because the Musgo aftershave has an oily base which gives plenty of moisturizing and protection against dryness and irritation. :biggrin:

 

Sunday, October 23, 2011 - Today's the day!

1. Prep: Hot shower; lather marinade
2. Lather: Cella - face lather
3. Brush: Frank Shaving Fine Badger
4. Razor: Gem MMOC
5. Blade: Pella SS PTFE coated (4); 2+ passes
6. Post: Warm water rinse; cold water splash; alum block; WH; AquaVelva; Tate's Miracle Conditioner; Clubman Talc

Shave Rating - Slendidly Sublime! A completely enjoyable start to this Lord's day! God Bless!

 

Sunday

Prep: 30 minute marinade with TSD ISZ PSB, hot shower
CD: Rich Mullins ~ Songs
Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Kenya Safari Ridge, BLACK
Soap: VDH Select + 3 generous drops of M Bomb
Brush: The Dridecker
SE: Gem Push Button
Blade: Gem, day 6, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Brut ASB + 2 drops M Bomb, Brut cologne

Shave Rating: 5 Blades

A super shave. For how it shaved, if I hadn't known this was the sixth shave with this blade, I might have easily thought it was the second or third; it was that smooth.

Off to church!

 

Oh man, you mentioning Rich Mullins brings back a lot of memories. Growing up my parents always listened to contemporary Christian radio, and they unfortunately flogged poor Rich Mullins to death long before his tragic accident by playing him literally about every third song. I never appreciated his greatness until I was older, because he was just so darn overplayed on the radio. But he really was one of the great songwriters in Christian music. We Are Not As Strong As We Think We Are is one of my all time favorite songs, and I still find myself singing it now and then. Thanks for that, swarden. Think I'll have to put that album on this afternoon.