1. Wednesday
    Hot shower
    Thater 4292/6,2 band,fan
    Proraso PrePost Cream
    The Fat
    Ever-Sharp Hydro-Magic/Pella coated injector (4)
    warm water rinse
    Monster Block Alum
    cool water rinse
    Thayer's Cucumber WH
    Pinaud Citrus Musk

    Great BBS shave face and dome :D
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  2. Wednesday morning, May 8, 2013

    Schick E2 Injector with Schick blade (4)
    Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush,
    TABAC shaving soap with hot water lather,
    finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!

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  3. Gillette Slim Adjustable
    Wilkinson Sword
    IB LE Semogue
    MdC
    Floid Blue

    DFS bordering on BBS! MdC is pretty terrific, I had a chance to try a sample my brother has. I feel an order approaching in the near future.
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  4. Swedish steel. At least thast's what the package says. I bought 10 of these a few months back. Dutch rebrand as far as I can guess. Ya know what? PM me your address. I'll send you a package. :)
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  5. Hump day!
    • Prep: hot washing cloth
    • Music: Bram Vermeulen, Vriend & Vijand
    • Brush: Travel King boar
    • Soap: vintage Williams
    • Razor: Valet Autostrop
    • Blade: Valet
    • Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
    • Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse, hand strop blade
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    Nice smooth shave. I guess I'll have to lay my hands on an Autostrop strop. I fear these original Valet blades won't last as long as the Feather look-alike blades. Since I'm low on cash (and I fear I will be for some time) I'll just have to save for that one (yeah, and for the other things I'd like to have).

    I saw a Valet in the local antique shop last weekend. From the looks of it I guess it'll take modified SE blades. Looks a bit battered; no case; no strop. € 10,--. Dunno. First the strop I guess. ;)
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  6. SOTD Wednesday 5-8-2013

    Futur Clone @ 3 w/Crystal
    Proraso PSC
    Rose of Bulgaria SC
    GT G4 Scuttle
    Caswell Massey Art Deco Badger
    Thayer's Witch Hazel
    Nivea Replenishing ASB
    Rose of Bulgaria ASL

    I have always thought about getting a Futur and was interested in the polish Chrome or the Gold finish. These were pretty expensive for my retirement budget and I wasn't sure about the large size and the slick looking handles. After discovering the Futur clone (Chinese made) offered and researching the reviews of it's performance, fit & finish and I decided to give it a go. The price at shaveabuck is half the price of a Merkur (German made) Futur in Gold which helped me to pull the trigger on this. I expected a basically relatively poor quality razor; very cheaply made; sub-par; thin plating etc. What I got was nothing like that! This is an outstanding razor. The fit & finish is excellent (better than all the Merkurs I have); the plating is thick and smooth (better than any of the Merkurs I have) and the performance was outstanding! There has been some discussion about the "Cloning" issue by Chinese manufacturers and that is a personal issue that must be addressed by the individual but, seriously, razors like this from China and Cadets, Matadors, Parkers and RazorRocks from India (which are also clones; at least the heads) are pretty hard to beat for the price. My view is; it's a razor and me buying it or not buying it isn't going to do anything about the world trade balance.
    Kudo's to Joe at shaveabuck for the amazingly fast shipment of this razor and the Rose of Bulgaria products (which were outstanding as well). I'm happy to give my business to a small business owner like Joe who markets to the average guy with good usable products at a reasonable price. Well done Sir!

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    Wednesday morning.

    Schick E2 Injector w/ Schick blade (1)
    Omega 20102 Pro Boar brush
    Ingrams shave cream
    Witch hazel
    Captain's Choice Bay Rum

    Cold water three pass+ for a DFS!
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  8. Gillette Red Tip
    Rapira Blade
    Ever-Ready Vintage Brush with Rudy Vey restore-Finest Badger
    Everest SC
    TSD Sea Buckhorn Witch Hazel
    Ahava AS balm
    music-Old Crow Medicine Show
    java-home roasted Ethiopian
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  10. Great gesture Mike! :happy088:
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  11. Summer finally arrived here. It was a hot night and I played squash first thing this morning. I needed something summery, so out came the Grapefruit. I was going to use my new Gillette aftershave this morning, but it seemed like the Vitos would match the grapefruit better. The Speick in the old spice mug makes a cameo just to qualify for vintage week.
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    Razor: Merkur Slant
    Blade: Feather
    Brush: Vulfix Grosvenor
    Preshave: Proraso white
    Cream: ToOBS Grapefruit
    Aftershave: Vitos Tabacco

    Good shave. I took an action shot because the lather was amazing. The grapefruit scent explodes as you build lather. I could smell it even after the aftershave dousing. Lather with this cream comes in seconds for me. I've never used anything else by ToOBS, are all their creams this good? I used too much and easily had enough lather left on the brush after three passes to, I don't know, shave my legs or something. Or like two other guy's faces.
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  12. Wednesday 05/08

    Pre-shave;Hot shower, Axe chilling facial wash
    Featured Brush;Semogue 1325
    Soap Choice;Honey Bee Sandalwood Vanilla
    Today's Razor &Bla View attachment 37686 View attachment 37686 de Combo;Fat Handle Tech mated with Super Max
    Post;Warm water rinse, cold water splash, Pinaud Three Flowers
    Results;Near prefect DFS



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  13. 7.5.2013

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    • Prep: shower, RazoRock glycerine pre-shave soap
    • Razor: Gillette Super Adjustable [7, 5, 5]
    • Blade: Gillette Platinum
    • Brush: Frank Shaving Faux Agate
    • Scuttle: "Estremoz" V2 Green
    • Soap: Speick shave stick
    • Post: alum, T.N. Dickinson's Witch hazel
    • Aftershave: Taylor of Old Bond Street Jermyn Street
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    • Prep: shower, VITOS pre/post
    • Razor: Gillette Super Adjustable [7, 5]
    • Blade: Gillette Platinum
    • Brush: Frank Shaving Faux Agate
    • Soap: Wilkinson Sword shave stick
    • Post: T.N. Dickinson's Witch hazel
    • Aftershave: Old Spice Champion
    Today was the beginning of week 2 of stick month. Next in line was Wilkinson Sword shave stick and after a quick shave I must admit first impressions are very good. Dare I say it's even better than the Speick stick I used before it. I guess the tallow and lanolin in the Wilkinson stick are the key ingredients here. I was awarded with a very rich lather that didn't thin out between passes. More thoughts as the week goes on...
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  14. how is that tres flores splash?
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  15. Muhle Retro white/black Silvertip
    Fraser's Shaving Cream
    Merkur Futur
    Astra SP (3)
    3 passes
    Pinaud Lime Sec

    Great warm weather shave!
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  16. I really enjoy it, it has a refreshing feeling. Makes my face feel good. The scent is not overpowering it is more subtle.
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  17. Wednesday, May 8, 2013

    Pre: hot shower
    Brush: EJ, Pure
    Cream: TOBS Grapefruit
    Razor: '71 Black Beauty (2 passes on 1)
    Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock (3rd & done)
    Post: Pinaud's Bay Rum, Lush Imperialis moisturizer

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    I messed up making coffee this morning (grinding error), which very rarely happens, and as I was cleaning up I thought to myself that maybe I should skip shaving for the day. Nonsense! my rational side insisted, you're just being superstitious again. I started over with the coffee, left it brewing, and talked myself into shaving while I showered. I went with my larger brush in Pure because I was feeling kind of scritchy myself, and proceeded to make a mess of a perfectly good amount of TOBS. A watery, soupy mess that didn't cling well and dripped off my face, leaving behind a bubbly wake that clogged my razor upon contact and was as generally unsatisfying as a cold plate of nachos at an airport Friday's when you're running late and starving. On the bright side, I'm finding that the Lush Imperialis is better on my skin by far than anything I've used as an ASB.
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  18. Wow, thank you! PM on the way!
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  19. That's a bad morning. Hope the rest of your day is good!
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  20. I knew you would like it. Now lets place a big order before SWMBO catches us. :angry019:
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