SoS: January 30th, 2012 ~ February 5th, 2012

Saturday - it's the weekend! Time for the SEs.

Prep: 30 minute marinade with TSD ISZ PSB, strop str8, hot shower
CD: Blues Gold, disc 2 ~ various later artists
Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Ethiopia Illubabor, BLACK
Strop: VB 2" black latigo/linen
Soap: L'Occitane Cade
Brush: 24mm silvertip set in red mallee burl
Str8: J R Torrey, 3 passes
SE: Schick Injector E model, touch up
Post: Cold water rinse, RazoRock rubdown, cold water rinse #2, Cool Mist, B&BW Noir

Shave Rating: 3 blades

Should have taken the Torrey to the hone. Not bad, but could feel the burn afterwards from trying to make a slightly dull edge work.

 

I never get tired ok seeing that brush Jamie looks fantastic

 

Saturday

Gillette FB @8
Derby day 3
Vulfix best badger travel brush
Palmolive Menthol shaving cream
TSD Iced Eucalyptus Witch Hazel
Proraso splash



Remarkable days we have right now. Yesterday it started to snow, which resulted in a traffic jam totaling almost 800 km at its peak. In a country just a little bit bigger than Maryland. Friday was followed by a night with -23 Celsius, making it already the coldest February since 1956. How many reasons one has to have to make it Menthol Saturday?
Because the sun was shining so nicely I took my Mentholated shaving goodies outside to make a picture in their natural iced habitat.
And then I went for the ultimate shave, cranked the FB up to 8, took my time and had a really great shave. The level of BBS on my cheeks was almost scary. It is 8 hours since I shaved and it still feels like a DFS on any other day right after shaving. Amazing.

 

Day late in posting this, was too busy yesterday...

Shave Of The Day ~ February 3rd​

Hot Shower
Vulfix 404 Badger/Boar Mix Brush
Georgetown Scuttle
Gillette Menthol Cream
Lord L6 Razor
Shark Super Chrome Blade ~ Day 4
Thayer's Witch Hazel/Osage Rub Mix
Pinaud Clubman Aftershave

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Saturday, weekend, Rolls Razor time!

Setup:

• Prep: hot water, hot washing cloth
• Music: Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells (the original from the seventies this time)
• Brush: WS badger/boar
• Soap: TSD Signature
• Razor: Rolls
• Since there were not many whiskers yet (BBS yesterday) straight to ATG. Shouldn't have done that... Shouldn't have done that...
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse, TSD Witch Hazel

Nice close shave, almost BBS, but some razor burn along the throat. Meh. Better next time.

Great weekend to all!

 

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Prep: Hot shower
Soap/cream: VDH Deluxe
Brush: Omega 10066
Razor: Gillette Slim Adjustable I-2 birth year/quarter, (5)
Blade: Lord Platinum (7) hand stropped
Cold water rinse
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Superior 70 Bay Rum

Haven't used the VDH soap in a really long time, just been trying too many others!
It probably deserves a little spot in everyone's den - under appreciated in my view.
The Lord Platinum gave me seven days of service, and while it could still could go
another day or two, I'll swap it out. Ironically, it seems to work better in my Slim than
my Lord L6 razor...

Привет, Джефф в Монреаль!

60% BBS, 40% DFS

 

Sat. Feb 4
Brush: Vie-Long Boar/horse
Soap/Creme: Col Conk Bay Rum
Razor: Merkur Progress
Blade: Gillette blue
Pre: Hot Towel
Post: Masters Lilac Vegetal
Hair Groom: Just a little water, and a few strokes of a military brush.
Result: A fine weekend shave.

 

oddly enough VDH is my favorite soap. inexpensive,readily availiable at wally-world. I buy two 2.5 oz. pucks at a time and melt them down into my burmashave mug. 5 oz puck of soap for a little over $3. And imo it provides an excellent shave and smells great.

 

Saturday, February 4, 2012. Good Morning!

Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers Original Blend
Prep: Wash face with Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Razor: Schick G1
Blade: Schick
Soap: MWF
Brush: Omega 10005
Scuttle: Dirty Bird 1.5
Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Floid Blue

 

This was last nights shave (had to recharge battery in camera)

Hot shower
Eclipse red ring 2 piece razor
Kent BK12
Astra sp blade
Proraso pre
Proraso white

DFS nice mild and smooth shave from the eclipse
Proraso ASB

 

Old bowling ball...that's great! I'll bet the desnsity of the material gives the handle a great feel. The knot size and loft height are my sweet spot too. Thanks for Beejay's info. Hey, did you just enable me?

 

Saturday

Twinplex Sales Co 5/8
Altesse badger
Pacific Natural shave cream
Master Bay Rum
Drakkar Noir EDT

I haven't used the 5/8 in awhile, but it gave me a pretty decent shave. I still prefer my 6/8 razors. The Pacific Natural shave cream delivers a wonderful lather while using very little cream.

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Saturday's Shave:

Skipped Friday, day off, but it turned out a great shave for today.

Coffee: World Market Peruivian
Prep: Hot shower, Nivea Cool Kick Face Wash
Razor: Gillette Aristocrat
Blade: Voskhod
Brush: VDH badger
Soap: Ralph Lauren Safari
Post: TSD Bourbon Vanilla ASM

 

Nice of Hanzo to share his Polsilvers. They're one of my top performing blades. Hope you enjoy them.

 

What a great idea and pic! Very talented and creative folks we have here.

 

Great picture. Tell me more about your brush.

 

Muehle Dog = R41 ('11) Head + iKon Bulldog Handle
Rapira Swedish SS
M&F Emillion
Tet-A-tet Shave cream
Barbasol Pacific Rush A/S
Tet-A-tet A/S Balm

 

Saturday's Shower and Shave

Hot Shower
LuJin Badger/Le Savon a Barbe Bay & Sweet Orange
Gillette SS/ Persona Blue (4)
Polar water facial rinse, Thayer's Witch Hazel, Arko

The :wave:give this DFS a solid 9.

Everyone have a great weekend. Giants will stomp all over the Pats.

 

Well Lignum Vitae is so dense it actually is one of the only woods that will sink in water, it also is naturally rich in oils, so making it very good for using when making shaving brushes, and the brush and knot proved to be so good in use, that I had another model made diifferent model but with the same knot by Bill, during the turn of the century Lignum Vitae was most used in the same way engineers would use metal today, mostly found in heavy industry ship yards so on making pully blocks lifting gear and many uses you would come to expect from this incredibly hard wood.

Regards Jamie.

 

SATURDAY!



Muhle R106
The Colonel
Personna Lab Prep
All things Proraso

What a shave! I am trying out one of the lab prep blades from Savages PIF. It had 3 days of hair to cut through but did a great job! The shave went really smooth! Also I happily welcomed the Proraso after a few nights of little sleep. I can honestly say I feel refreshed with this 5 star DFS! This day is turning out great! A great shave that will be complimented with a great opera debut tonight!