I'm still up but I'm feeling much better now. I spend the shaky part of the night lapping an Arkansas stone and the less shaky parts honing my straights up to a 6k stone. I still have a few more hours of lapping before I can use the Arkie and get the razors shave ready. They will cut hair now but it wouldn't be comfortable. I'll drag out the blades for my Rolls razor this afternoon after a nap and get them up to the same point as my straights. I'm about to eat a breakfast of leftover burritos and a cupcake before I run out for an errand. I'll nap at about lunchtime to recover from last night the rest of the way.

Glad you are feeling better. Take care of yourself.

Glad you are doing better this morning.

12/16/15

Gillette New LC
Rapira Super Stainless (3)
Vulfix Super Badger (660)
Pre de Provence
Georgetown G12 Scuttle
Pinaud Clubman Original

First day with the Pre de Provence and the Rapira Super Stainless in the New LC.
A small amount of warm water on the top of the soap to soften while soaking the brush. Afterwards, I poured the tiny amount that was left into my scuttle. I squeezed out the brush and loaded it for about 30 seconds (plenty of product). Built the lather in the scuttle adding a small amount of water from time to time as needed. After a bit I was rewarded with a ton of slick and creamy lather.


2 full passes: Pass 1 XTG. Pretty good reduction. Pass 2: ATG. Small amount of touch up using the lather on my face where I could feel stubble. At that point my face was feeling pretty smooth. Did a cool water rinse and then spent some time touching up my trouble spots and captured the baby. Once again, the Pinaud Clubman stung a little, but settled down quickly. The brush still had plenty for another two or three passes.


A nice comfortable BBS from the Pre de Provence and the Rapira Super Stainless in the New LC. The PdP lathered well and was very slick and protective. No issues with this soap at all. Consistent and the lather was plentiful throughout the shave.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday!

12/16/2015
Razor – Gillette Slim (J3) set on 9
Blade – Feather (3)
Brush – Romera Olivewood Synthetic
Lather – Jabonman Citricos
Post - Witch Hazel & Fine L’Orange



It has been awhile since I used the Citricos soap. Since I enjoy it each time, I'll have to make sure it gets used more often. The soap practically lathers itself and the scent is nice as well. Going with a 3 pass shave this morning provided a near BBS shave. I did nick myself once due to operator error. Graded out closeness of A- and Irritation of B+ to A-. Finished off with a splash of Fine L'Orange. Hope everyone has a great Wednesday.

I've just taken advantage of being a full day ahead on my job located near a shopping centre and treated myself to a brush and two new shave creams. My brush is a men-u from Italy pure bristle and I have a body shop maca root shave cream and a men-u ultra concentrate cream all three products I know nothing about but the temptation to buy straight away rather than wait for delivery swayed my decision is anyone aware of these brands? I wouldn't say they were cheap

Pain Stick Focus December 16:

Homemade PS Oil
Simpsons Commodore X3 Best Badger
St. James Black Pepper and Lime
CJB Pain Stick
Stirling Unscented PSB
Old Spice Classic AS

A much better shave this morning. I have one spot on my chin I could have cleaned up a bit more, but overall pretty good. I would call this a true CCS, as it was extremely comfortable. This was the least amount of irritation I have had with a Pain Stick, and I had no blood flow. After yesterday, this was a big improvement.

I don't know anything about the products you bought. I do know a lot about buying shaving products in the fly.

Never used it myself, but I've read some favorable reviews about Body Shop Maca Root Shaving Cream. The scent is apparently a case of "love it or hate it", other than that people seem to agree that it performs really well.

I know nothing about men-ü other than they have a fancy website Just remember: a boar brush needs some time to break in and develop its full potential.

Good advice about break in time with boar brushes.

Thanks for the responses the maca root does smell lovely imo but it's loaded with ingredients which is something I was trying to stay away from I like simple I'm going to save it in keeping with the focus but look forward to trying my brush later

Sorry to hear your not feeling well. Hope your feeling better soon.

Great set up Doug. Lovely razor set.

The voice of experience.

It's an ЯХMА. A better designation might be POS, however.

Hope you feel better soon.

In the case of this razor, that might be more accurate than not.

Well, perhaps at some point. lol. It was actually honed in the past couple of weeks the right way.

If that's all it does then thank your lucky stars!

If you get a wet boar funk on the brush, try letting the lather dry on it for a few days. This has helped me with boar and horse brushes.