Saturday Prep: Warm Shower-Stirling Bath Soap-Gatlinburg Soap: RazoRock Tuscan Oud Razor: Gillette Slim Blade: Personna 74 Tungsten Plus (12) Brush: Ever-Ready 50R TGN Premium Silvertip-20mmx55mm Aftershave: Tuscan Oud WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard) RR Tuscan Oud today. 20 seconds to load the Ever-Ready Silvertip. Easy, thick, slick, lather. Personna 74 still cruising along. Excellent smooth, close, shave. I finished with Tuscan Oud. Bob
Thank you...I noticed the same thing after I took the photo. I need to get a set of scales like this for one of my own razors. This one is graciously on loan.
•Bic Hybrid Comfort 3 •some mystery soap (label came off the can) 2 pass DFS+. Pretty good shave for $2.75 for handle and 6 carts.
Hello TSD Another Rockwell shave today: - RazoRock Mudder Focker - Whipped Dog High Mountain Badger - Rockwell 6S - Rockwell blade - Homemade Bay Rum AS Not one of my best shaves, I have to admit. I blame the blade for that - pretty mediocre, a bit tuggy even with the #2 plate (I started with #4 and switched to the milder one for the ATG pass). Somewhere between DFS and BBS-, I'd say.
SOTD Feb. 20, 2016 Razor - Schick M2 adjustable (with Schick twin blade) Brush - Muhle 35 K 257 Soap - Proraso sensitive Pre - Alba botanical coconut lime (not in picture) Post - Thayer WH / unrefined Shea butter Bowl - Heavy marble carved with marble eggs. Interesting shave today used the Alba coconut lime as a pre -shave. It heats up the face mildly like a pepper feeling but not like a chemical burn. Placed hot towel on face to aid in beard softening. Applied the Proraso which felt cool and proceeded to shave WTG ATGx2 and XTG on neck. Wow the twin blades really shinned here. No razor burn and BBS. Only issue was blood on my ear lobe as I somehow managed to go to far. Blade was so sharp that it was a painless minor cut and only realized it due to some red on white lather. Great zero irritation free shave and warm/cold face feel.
Saturdays shave: It's a cold one here in Edmonton...well much colder than where I live now, so the Cat o Nine Tails was needed to warm me up.
20feb16 I finally used Arko for the first time. I cut it into medallions and put them in my repurposed KFC container. Works good, lather, scent if fine with me, and will probably be my travel soap/container. Also with all the talk about AVON lately, I used some Wild Country from the Pawn.
SOTD February 20, 2016 Prep: Hot Shower. Noxzema Razor: Blackland Blackbird Blade: Voskhod Lather: Mitchell's Wool Fat Brush: RazoRock Natural Boar 26x64mm Post: Thayers Cucumber WH. Gold Bond Ultimate Aftershave: Pitralon Pure Killer shave. This RR boar whipped up the MWF like a dream. The Blackbird is automatic. Never let the things you WANT Make you forget the things you HAVE!
This is a link to a recital I gave last February. It's Schubert's final song cycle: Winterreise (Winter's Journey). It's not for everybody in the sense that it's a dark, troubling story of a man who has been rejected by his lover and wanders through the land discovering his needs and, quite frankly, wallowing in his own misery. It's in German, so here is a link to some background information and an English translation: https://theoryofmusic.wordpress.com...n-of-schuberts-winterreise-poems-by-w-muller/ It's a 70 minute work, so many of you will not make it through, especially if you are unfamiliar with German art songs, but I understand, and should you choose to listen to any part of it, thank you. Here is the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJMtKI7-7IU
Jeff, How would you compare the scent (not the frigidity) of the Krampert's vs. the Stirling Glacials? I like the Krampert's Bay Rum, but could learn to like the Frostbite (scent). Same thing with Catie's Bubbles Mile Hile Menthol.
