Beautiful razor, and nice write up!

Well, considering that it has been, really, my principal soap for almost four years and I am about finished trying any other new ones, I presume you can guess.
Once you refine your technique with this soap, it is just fantastic, really and the scents are incredible, in my opinion. It isn't as difficult as some have said as it just takes a bit of adjustment with technique and water/soap ratio.

Tuesday 21st July





Warm shower

Hot towel

WSP Rustic Fougere Noir bowl lathered

Finest Badger brush made by myself

Gillette Goodwill (made in England)

Personna Lab Blue (3)

Cold rinse

Thayers Lemon witch hazel

Aqua Velva Ice Blue aftershave



Good to be back, my Broadband connection's been down for almost a week...

yep, it woke me up and I sat up in bed as the shaking subsided after 8-10 seconds. Went back to sleep. I forgot all about it until I read your post.

30 Day Rule - July 2015
July 20th
Razor - Feather SS AC/Gillette New LC
Blade - (5) (2 2/3)
Brush - Omega 10066 (BoS)
Soap - Mitchell's Wool Fat
Post - Cold Water splash, Nivea

Day off shave, though I did have a Dr. appointment to make so not quite as slow a morning as Tuesday usually is. Another great lather and ready to give the Feather its run. First pass very nice again with the modified style. I did have to back off around yesterday's cut to avoid reopening it but I'll clean that up with the New. Went XTG over my face and neck, again working around the cut, and finished that pass with a bit of irritation coming but no major problems. Finished with the New and Feather to get a very very nice DFS. Managed to leave the cut closed so points for me! The Feather is beginning to feel automatic on most of my shave. A few areas around the goatee still puzzle me a bit but I'm getting closer. Hit the cold water and skipped teh alum today. The Nivea gave me a fair burn, not bad, and off to be checked out. Hope you all have a great day!

July 21 SOTD:

VDH Boar Brush
La Toja Shave Stick
Phoenix Dbl OC
Stirling Unscented PSB
Barbasol Brisk AS

No pic today, but a good shave after a day of no shaving. A DFS this morning with the Phoenix and La Toja.

Bonjour Messieurs,

As I was in vacations, here's 3 SOTD in one :

12/07 :


- Simpson CL1 Synth
- LPL Stick
- Leresche "Le Lumineux"
- Leresche Travel DE
- AS Myrsol Limon

17/07 :


- Simpson CL1 Synth
- LPL Stick
- Leresche "Favor"
- Leresche Travel DE
- AS Old Spice

21/07 :

- Paladin TSN LE 2015
- Htgam "Pumpkin Pie"
- Leresche "Jupiter"
- Kirby & Beard Travel DE
- AS htgam "Autumn Factory"

Bonne soirée !

Lovely brush.

I have finished up using my SuperMax Super Platinum blade for its rotation. It was a horrible blade the first shave with it. However, the second and third shaves were excellent, smooth as can be. No idea why the difference. I am looking forward to testing the blade again to see if it was a fluke or if it will always be better after a use or two. Also, it was a great blade with a couple days growth but not good the first day when I had shaved the day before. Maybe it just really wants beard to chow down on to keep it smooth. Anyway, here is my shave from today

Razor - Lord L6
Blade - SupereMax Super Platinum
Brush - VDH Boar
Soap - TOBS Lavender with a couple drops M-bomb added
Post - Cold Water splash, witch hazel with lavender EO, followed up by a dash of Iced SubZero AS for a nice cool blast!

You can't go wrong with Proraso Green. I keep meaning to try Arko again, but I always find something better to use instead in the morning. One day I will use Arko again.

It seems weird that somebody can be so used to earthquakes that they forget being in one

Oh I can believe it

SOTD for Tuesday July 21st...............

Tabac stick face lathered with Semogue 1438
Merkur 1904 w/Royal Blade
Witch hazel followed by Clubman Vanilla Aftershave

Single pass w/touch up for a CCS!

Had a great shave using soap commander and using the marco method again.



Razor - Ever ready 1912
Blade - Gem
Lather - Soap Commander Courage
Brush - Pilsson synthetic
Aftershave - Clubman Special Reserve And Nivea Sensitive balm

Bruno blade
SOC brush
Alt Innsbruck
Tabac soap

A great shave from this razor very smooth and sharp, tabac is a pleasure to use as always.

Great photo's. What is that machine in the center pic?

It's my last haul from a flea market. One "good point" to the one who guesses right !

Nice setups! I really like the Jupiter

OMG. That is priceless! Perhaps I should have said "the vast amount of USELESS knowledge here is staggering"!

Love that razor! On my RAD list.