SoS: April 15, 2013 - April 21, 2013

Saturday's shave

• Prep: hot washing cloth
• Music: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber from Fleet Street soundtrack
• Brush: none!
• Shaving oil: Kruidvat
• Razor: bakelite Shake Sharp
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse, dry & reload blade in silver Shake

Excellent shave! Not quite BBS, but close, very close.

Have a great weekend ya'll, make it count!

 

Muhle R41 - Tradere handle
Permasharp Super
Semogue 2000
Klar Kabinett
Alum
Superior 70

Day 3 with the 2013 R41 delivers the goods. Stepped to a sharper blade and was nicely rewarded.

One pass and a little touch up and I was good to go.

 

Great looking brush.

 

It is sunny, but it is still chilly. Going to the Reds game at 1 for a Brandon Phillips bobblehead. Hope your day is as good as mine!

 

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

Prep: Hone & strop str8, hot shower, TSD ISZ PSB
Coffee: Maxwell House French Roast, BLACK
CD: Freddie King ~ Blues, 20 Hits
Hone: Duro Electric
Strop: VB 2" black latigo/linen
Soap: TSD Brut Type
Brush: C&E Pure Badger
Str8: Robeson SurEdge, 3 passes
SE: Schick Injector E model, touch up
Post: Cold water rinse, RazoRock rub down, cold water splash, Brut ASB, Brut cologne
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

 

Saturday morning!

Axe Chilled facial wash/V05 Conditioner
Shave Secret
Barbasol Soothing Aloe
Schick E2 razor with Schick blade (2)
Witch Hazel
Gillette Cool Wave AF

Not much to say, another fantastic DFS from my Injector! I feel like a million bucks!

 

Saturday morning, April 20, 2013

Schick E2 Injector with Personna blade (8)
Semogue 1250 boar bristle brush,
Arko shaving soap with hot water lather,
finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!

 

Hot shower
Proraso preshave
TSD Pink Grapefruit
Semogue 1305 & Dirty Bird Bowl
'58 Gillette TV Special w/ Feather blade
Cold water rinse
Alum
Witch Hazel
Proraso Green AS

 

Prep: hot shower, Axe Cooling Face Wash, Billy Jealousy Sucker Punch Face Scrub.
Brush: TGN Grade A.
Razor: '70 Aluminum Tech.
Blade: Personna Lab.
Soap: Tabac.
Post: cold water rinse, Thayer's Lavender WH, Barbon AS.

This is my first time using Tabac and I'm pretty impressed. It lathered up great, didn't dry up, had good slickness to it, and smelled pretty good. I've had some rough shaves recently and I have to dial in what's wrong and fix it so I don't keep having these problems.

 

How is the Col. Conk Almond?

 

Saturday
Arko SS/Omega 10029
ER 1912/Gem SS d2
Old Spice AS

2 passes WTG & ATG.....With this 1912, buffing is so much fun....at the end of the shave I was thinking DFS and debated on a touch-up pass for 'Chasing the Baby"...ha,ha...But a couple hours later I'm thinking I made the right decision by not going on the 'Baby search' as I already found the baby and todays shave was a BBS...lol...

Whichever way the 'Officials' call this one...Todays shave was a wonderful experience...

 

SOTD Saturday 4-20-2013

Cadet OC TP-30B w/Crystal
Proraso PSC
Homemade SC (Irisch Moos/Speickish)
GT G4 Scuttle
Omega Boar
Thayer's Witch Hazel
Nivea Replenishing ASB
Brut Original Cologne

Late post as I left very early this morning for a meeting. Just catching up with things. The Cadet/Crystal combo was awesome today! took those nasty old whiskers off in no time. Good early afternoon shave!

 

Sunday
Hot Shower-whiskers shampooed and conditioned
Arko Shave Stick-bowl lathered
Omega 10029 Baby-Pro
Gem OC Micromatic/Gem SS d3
Old Spice AS

Finally got a 5 Blade rating from my wife with a safety razor....She's one severe shave critic...she scores a Turkish Barber shave in the 4's...maybe 4.25....The only 5s I remember getting were with the shavette and she said I was getting much better than Barber shop shaves after I got a handle with that...Today she said the same thing and was shocked to find I was using a safety razor...The OCMM knocked another one out the park!! As close as a Shavette but fast and easy like an injector...I love it!!

Have a great Sunday everybody!!

 

Sunday!

• Prep: hot washing cloth
• Music: Wim Mertens, Receptacle
• Brush: none!
• Shaving oil: Kruidvat
• Razor: silver Shake Sharp
• Blade: Gillette carbon super blue (#8)
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse, dry & reload blade in bakelite Shake

Nice shave. Not as nice as with soap or cream, but nice none the less.

 

Sunday

Prep: Hot shower, TSD ISZ PSB
Coffee: Maxwell House French Roast, BLACK
CD: Third Day ~ Offerings II: All I Have to Give
Soap: Daisy Mountain Naturals Spiced Mahogany
Brush: Mohawk 3-338
SE: Gem MMOC
Blade: Gem, day 3, 3 passes
Post: Cold water rinse, L'Oreal Comfort Max ASB, B&BW Noir, hand strop blade
'Stache Wax: Firehouse Wacky Tacky

One fantastic shave.

I'm on that CD, track 8, God of Wonders. If you listen real close you can hear me whistling in the background
Seriously, though, caught 'em in Philly during their Come Together tour. Great group! And honestly, track 8 was recorded during that show in Philly!

 

Sunday: Dedicated to my dear friends Veli and Dmitry!

NXT Facial Wash
#6 Horsehair
Dovo Bismarck 5/8
Aspis Ice Rain SC
Svoboda AS Balsam
Grey Flannel EDT

My shaves this weekend were made possible by two very special friends of mine who sent me some great creams from their countries - yesterday was a Russian Day dedicated to my friend Dmitry, and today was a Bulgarian Day dedicated to my friend Veli. This Aspis Ice Rain stuff gives such fabulous lather with a nice scent and it has a good cooling sensation which the Svoboda balsam (thanks again, Dmitry!) really increases. This shave was such a pleasure from start to finish!

 

Muhle R41 - Tradere handle
Permasharp Super
Semogue 1305
Klar Kabinett
Alum
Superior 70

I am liking the 2013 R41. I've been getting great shaves and minimal irritation.

 

21.4.2013

• Prep: shower, RazoRock glycerine pre-shave soap
• Razor: Merkur 37c
• Blade: Feather (2)
• Brush: WSP Monarch HMW
• Scuttle: "Estremoz" V2 Green
• Soap/Cream: RazoRock S. Maria
• Post: T.N. Dickinson's Witch hazel
• Aftershave: Proraso lozione dopobarba

 

5/8 Beau Brummel
Stirling Lime SS
26mm TGN Finest
Stephan Island Lime

Very nice shave this morning. Nice soap, good lather, good skin care, very slick.

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Baseball yesterday means laundry and yard today, bleh! Oh well, it was nice to go to a game with my mom and we won in 13. Have a wonderful remainder of your weekend, gents.