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SOTD 10.24.2017

Face Shave:
Pre-shave: hot shower
Shave Cream: Barbasol Sensitive Skin travel size can
Razor: Schick G1
Blade: Schick (3)
Post-shave: Dickinson WH, Nivea Sensitive PS Balm, Pinaud Musk cologne

Head Shave:
Pre-shave: same
Shave Cream: CO Bigelow
Razor: Gem Micromatic OC
Blade: Gem Blue Star (2nd or 3rd use)
Post-shave: same

I hope everyone is having a terrific week!

 

OCtober 2017 - day 25.



iKon B1 DeLuxe / OSS handle.
Asco Super Stainless (red wrapper) (5).

Yaqi model R151016-S2.
Monsavon.
Arko Men "Platinum".

Monsavon -for sale in almost every French supermarket at a low price.
Excellent lather and a very acceptable scent (YMMV)

 

Williams Wednesday's OC Shave


Proraso Pre Shave
Williams
Jayaruh #229
New Deluxe Tuckaway
Gillette Silver Blue
CWR
Thayer's Lemon WH
Pinaud Clubman

I started off with Proraso Pre Shave. The Colgate Mug Shaving Soap face-lathered well with the Jayaruh #229 synthetic brush. I did two passes with the Gillette New Deluxe Tuckaway razor and Gillette Silver Blue blade and ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayer's Lemon WH and then Pinaud Clubman AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

OCtober 25 SOTD:

Razorock Plissoft Brush
TSD Lanolin Barber Shoppe
1936 Gillette Aristocrat
Stirling Unscented PSB
TSD Floid Blue Type AS

 

OCtober 25, 2017
Wolfman OC Ti (0.74mm)
Personna 74 (10)
Simpson Chubby 2 Synthetic
Reef Point Test Depth
Folsom & Co Capri

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1911 OLD Wool Fat Wednesday shave...

 

Well today is another bummer experience. We are starting the last three pairings for the month and this set pitted a Fatip Grande against a Valet AutoStrop VC1 using a despined GEM blade.

Yesterday's shave with the Fatip Grande was another fantastic very near perfect shave and I pointed out "Today's shave was a repetition of the Phase 1 shave, super smooth, super efficient, super comfortable PDG+ near perfect. My Valets usually do a good job but it will need to do a great job tomorrow to stay in the running."

Third pair from left:
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Well it did. In fact the two results are so close together it will be tough to pick a winner.

Today started again with shower using Herberia Bay Rum soap followed by Old Spice lather made using a Vie-Long horsehair brush. Then the shave itself using the Valet AutoStrop and the despined GEM blade. It was a two pass shave then rub face with alum (still tastes bad). I let that dry while I flushed and fluffed the brush then wiped up any water on the sink. With my face dry and the alum making stretching easier I did a few touchup strokes around the always tough to get spots.

After shave was Chatillon Vide Poche aftershave.

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Last it was time to clean up the razor and put it away and finally, that was when I determined the winner.

To fully rinse the blade in the Fatip Grande you have to take it all apart and rinse the parts individually. To rinse the blade in the Valet AutoStrop VC1 you push the lever up, swing the blade and carrier up and run both side of the blade under the faucet. Easie Peasie. WINNER.

But it really was that close. There was literally no difference in the shave comfort, efficiency, speed; nothing. Since there had to be a winner the ease of cleanup with the VC1 is the only real advantage to either.

 

SOTN OCtober 24th


Ericsson Open Comb
Voskhod
Proraso Red sandalwood SC
Stirling 24mm Synthetic
Fine Platinum

 

SOTD 10.25.2017

Face Shave:
Pre-shave: Hot shower
Shave Cream: Barbasol Sensitive Skin travel size can (#11) http://theshaveden.com/forums/threa...m-travel-can-experiment-sensitive-skin.57755/
Razor: Probak OC
Blade: Derby Extra (4)
Post-shave: Dickinson WH, Aqua Velva Sensitive 5 in 1 AS Balm, Aqua Velva Musk AS / Cologne

Head Shave:
Pre-shave: same
Shave Soap: VDH Deluxe soap puck
Brush: VDH boar
Razor: Pal Injector
Blade: Schick (2nd or 3rd I think)
Post-shave: same

In keeping with my experiment on the Barbasol travel size can I again only used it on the face shave so it's not doing double duty on one day, i.e. a face and head shave. Besides, I want to keep some of my other shave products in rotation.

Did yard work this morning. I think this may be the last day I will have to mow the lawn. Although it's supposed to get to a high of 80 degrees Fahrenheit today (26 C), tomorrow the high will be about 40 degrees cooler and there's a slight chance of snow late in the day. Time to get the snow shovels ready!

For the face shave I did my usual 2 passes, and a clean-up pass on the neck area. I am very impressed with this Probak razor.

I took out the Pal injector to handle the head shave and it performed admirably. The only hiccup to an otherwise fine shave today was a cut to the back of my neck. I knew I hit something with the razor, twice. I didn't think too much at first about it but when I re-lathered my scalp for a 2nd pass I saw some blood on the brush. I finished up the shave and had to get some help from the wife because I could not tell what I had done. She said I cut open a blemish and also had a minor cut near it. She gave me some first aid, and made it all better.

Have a great day, everyone!

 

OCtober 2017 - day 26.



Vintage Gillette Goodwill NEW (LC, #160, made in USA) / custom handle.
Asco Super Stainless (red wrapper) (6).

Yaqi model R151016-S2.
Jabones by Luna "Fauno".
PeReJa Lavender EdC.

In 1931 Gillette started issuing the Goodwill razors - when buying a tuck of 10 "new model" blades one would receive a Goodwill razor for free (as promotion).
See the special way of positioning the blade.

 

Thursday's OC Shave


Proraso Pre Shave
Colgate Mug Shaving Soap
Jayaruh #229
Gillette Goodwill
Gillette Silver Blue
CWR
Thayer's Lemon WH
Pinaud Clubman

I started off with Proraso Pre Shave. The Colgate Mug Shaving Soap face-lathered well with the Jayaruh #229 synthetic brush. I thought I had written about CMS somewhere, but I will repeat. The CMS, to me, has no scent at all. It may be that it is an old, old puck, but it lathers like crazy. As far as cushion and slickness, I really don't know how to evaluate those. I do know that I got no irritation, nicks, or cuts. I did two passes with the Gillette Goodwill razor and Gillette Silver Blue blade and ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayer's Lemon WH and then Pinaud Clubman AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

OCtober 26, 2017
Wolfman Ti OC (0.74 blade gap)
Personna 74 (11)
WDC-8 with Druida Manchurian
Fine Platinum Soap and Aftershave

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OCtober 26 SOTD:

Stirling Synthetic Brush
Stirling Gatlinburg
1936 Gillette Aristocrat
Stirling Unscented PSB
Stirling Gatlinburg AS

 

Today starts an Above the Tie trilogy; an S2 slant DE, an SE2 open comb AC format razor and in the last pairing for Phase 2 an ATT R2 medium DE vs a Fatip Piccolo. When it comes to modern razors I have yet to find one I don't really love. The S2 even preformed better in Phase 1 than my Gillette Senator which for a long time was my absolute favorite open comb razor.

Lower shelf, second from left:

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Today's shave was just another great Above the Tie shave; a smooth, effortless, comfortable, two pass and very minor touchup PDG+ near perfect shave. This is one of the razors that always leaves me wishing I could find something more to mow down. It is one I was lucky enough to find listed in a BST post and one I really am glad to have found. It was my gateway entry into the ATT razors and now there are almost a half dozen of them living with me. Feels like the old days when a rugby team came to town.

Today's ritual was out of the shower, brush hair back and use a cable tie to hold in a pony tail (a little maybe 10 year old girl shopping for school supplies with her mom taught me how to do that in the middle of the aisle in Walgreens; me on my knees, she standing behind me and twisting my hair up into a rope while she explains that "My hair is too skinny! "And even first graders know how to make a pony tail! " and her mom laughing). For soap it was more Old Spice but with a Stag pure badger brush. Stag was a Rexall house brand along with Rex and Kleenzo IIRC but I find it generally makes great lather.

After the shave it was a rub down with the alum block, one last search for the missing hare that hopped away when I tried to get it, then a dab of Pre de Provence followed by some Clubman.

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OCtober 26, 2017

Paladin Churchill
Mystic Water Barbershop
Wolfman Ti OC with Darwin
Polsilver Super Iridium
Barrister and Mann Seville AS
Brooks Brothers 1818

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OCtober 2017 - day 27.



Blackland "Blackbird" OC with long (101 mm) handle.
Asco Super Stainless (red wrapper) (7).

J&T® padoek / finest 2-band.
Scheermonnik "Delfts wit".
Hugo Boss Bottled EdT.

 

OCtober 27, 2017
Wolfman Ti OC (0.74 blade gap)
Personna 74 (12)
WDC-8 with Druida Manchurian
Fine Italian Citrus Shaving Soap
Fine italian Citrus Aftershave

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Friday's OC Shave


Proraso Pre Shave
Colgate Mug Shaving Soap
Jayaruh #229
Gillette NEW SC
Gillette Silver Blue
CWR
Thayer's Lemon WH
Pinaud Clubman

I started off with Proraso Pre Shave. The Colgate Mug Shaving Soap face-lathered well with the Jayaruh #229 synthetic brush. I did two passes with the Gillette NEW SC razor and Gillette Silver Blue blade and ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayer's Lemon WH and then Pinaud Clubman AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

OCtober 27, 2017

Love Your Shave Two Band
CRSW Juniper Soap and Aftershave
Rhodium Rose Gold Gillette New
Personna 74 Tungsten
ADP Blu Mediterraneo Ginepro

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OCtober 27 SOTD:

Rubberset 400
Wholly Kaw Monaco Royale
1936 Gillette Aristocrat
Wholly Kaw Monaco Royale AS