May 6th , SOTD (Shave 4 of this focus)
Two and a half days’ growth
Prep: Hot Shower
Razor: Wade and Butcher 5/8 Square point (post 1890)
Strop: Chromexcel Horsehide- 20 laps on linen, 40 on leather
DE Razor: 1941 National Razor Company Bakelite Razor
DE Blade: Astra SP- Stropped 30 times per edge (3rd shave on blade)
Soap: Barrister & Mann's Fireside (Brandy scent)
Brush: Semoge Boar
Post Shave: Cold Water Rinse, Alum Block, Thayer’s Witch Hazel
Aftershave: Aubrey Men’s Stock North Woods
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My shaves are much better when I have at least two day’s growth. I used the straight for a N/S pass, including my chin, then did a S/N pass, but didn’t do the part of my chin where I have been cutting myself. I used skin stretching, and carefully went over my face with the straight, listening for the sound the full hollow makes when it is cutting. That sound is helping me figure out the angle needed. I wasn’t paying close enough attention and cut an inch and a half off my left sideburn again. My wife also commented that the bars on my horseshoe mustache are getting very thin. I think I might end up clean shaven if I don’t pay more attention. I used the National Bakelite razor to do a WTG and ATG on my chin between the bars on my mustache. My neck was actually in good enough shape that I didn’t touch it up. Overall, I would say DFS. If I had touched up my neck with the DE, it probably would have been BBS. Very little feedback with the alum bar, so the skin stretching and listening to the razor is helping.
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