SoS: April 13, 2015 - April 19, 2015

Ah, Lester William Polsfuss! Excellent choice!

 

Thank you! It's an amazing smooth shave. I had it set to 2, and after two passes was DFS!

 

Gary, my Ever-Ready 150 is fantastic! Anyone who has a C-40 brush body type knows that they feel like a toy, very light and fragile. My GDCarrington custom is the complete opposite, clean, sleek, heavy, fashionable and a lather monster. I am very grateful and honored to have a GDCarrington custom brush.

 

Soap TFS largara Gelsomino
Razor above the tie r2 marble wood handle
Blade 1960 Sputnik. I'm test piloting it
Brush custom made cedarwood handle vie long horse hair knot

 

Planned Tabac Tuesday

Gillette Fatboy
Personna blue blade
Pacific Shave Co PSO
Vie-Long 14080 brush
Tabac shave soap
Body Shop Arber aftershave balm
Tabac Eau De Cologne

If I remember in the morning I'm going to mix Tabac shaving cream and Tabac soap for an Uber lather.

My uber lather was whipped up with ease. This soap is without a doubt my favorite soap in my den. It explodes with a thick and slick lather and the scent actually lasts post shave, where most other soaps I use, the scent is washed away with the rinse.
Great 2 pass shave no touched ups required.

 

Tuesday Planned SOTD
Standard | Gillette Bleue Extra (D6)
Georgetown G12 | M&F 26mm Blonde
SPAtopia Dead Sea Scrub | Pacific Shaving Iced
Czech & Speake No. 88 | Post: Monster Alum Block
Saponificio Varesino Puro Burro di Karitè | Fine Platinum


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Planned Tuesday Morning Shave 14Apr15




Razor: ATT R-1 88mm Kronos Handle
Blade: Wilkinson Sword DE Blade
Shaving Brush: Whipped Dog 30/65mm Silver Tip Badger Black&White Marbled Resin Handle
Shaving Mug: VDH Luxury Mug Set
Shaving Soap: Vander-Williams Shaving Soap aka Patrick's Blend
Pre-Shave Oil: Stirling Coniferous Pre-Shave Oil
After Shave Balm: RazoRock Ultimate Aftershave
After Shave: Stirling Soap Co. Coniferous

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard)

This is will be the Third Shave on this Blade.
I will be Face Lathering again tomorrow morning
I will also use an Ice Cold Wet Face Cloth.
On my face as I have each day in the past week.
I will again shave with Cold Water tomorrow morning.
I will apply T.N. Dickinson's Witch Hazel after my morning shave.

This is the 15th. Day of 30 Day Rule using my, ATT Razor R-1 Base Plate W/88mm. Kronos Handle

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TUESDAY
Evening Shave for Tomorrow
A pleasant evening shave —which I probably could have skipped but opted for the enjoyment of another relaxing nighttime shave. Some recent brush discussion prompted me to use the Semo 83o boar which has always been a good performer—and one of the brush 'bargains' out there! I put it to the test lathering The Fat and the Semo was up to the task, yielding tremendous lather.
Have a great Tuesday all!

 

Tabacstag!

 

Fat Tuesday, April 14 SOTD:

Homemade PS Oil
WD Silvertip
FB w/Gillette Silver Blue set on 5
TSD Lanolin Egyptian Spice
TOBS Sandlewood AS

Definitely the end of the line for this blade, 7 shaves was the max. But a good shave none the less.

 

Oh my God - after shaving with the Cryogen and using the Diana Sport balm and the Rubby Dubby Doo, I feel like my face has a built-in air conditioner!

 

14 April

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SOTD
April 14, 2015
Face & head shave
Prep: Hot Shower. Axe Shield Face Wash
Razor: Edwin Jagger DE89/MR5 handle
Blade: Gillette 7 O'clock Super Stainless
Brush: Ever-Ready 150 TGN 24/54mm Synthetic by GDCarrington
Lather: Klar Kabinett
Post: Alum. Thayers Cucumber WH.
Aftershave: Fine Platinum
Goodness. This mornings shave was wonderful, lovely mild rose scent from the mighty Klar. EJ89/MR5 handle perfect match! Finished with a splash of platinum. Poached eggs over toast awaits!
Go out and get it

 

today's shave
hot water wash with dove+ care
semouge 620
rustic shave soap tobacco
Merkur progress(4)
Ladas(1)
ICED Skin Bracer original
today's shave was great. TOBACCO TUESDAY. very nice lather whipped up by the 620. New to me razor today. the progress, WOW, nice razor. I started on three, but quickly bumped it up to four. three passes and I'm very nicely shaved. the weight and balance of this razor is very nice. finished with iced Bracer.
hope y'all did as well, if not, get a progress.

 

4/14/15

Prep: Hot shower
Lather: St. James Mandarin & Patchouli (face lathered)
Brush: TGN synthetic
Razor: New SC
Blade: Rapira Stainless (2)
Post: Old Spice

I'm not certain that I've every face lathered with this cream. It took quite a while to get a decent lather on my face - I'm guessing around 3-4 minutes. Back to the bowl tomorrow because that only takes about 30 seconds to be ready to paint on.

 

6/8 Clauss
TOBS Lavender Soap
homemade boar
Nice shave this morning. I found out that I have a tendonitis in my shoulder yesterday. It makes using the lathe a real issue but it bothers me the worst in bed when trying to sleep. It aches like a bad tooth so sleeping has become difficult. Well, have a good one.

 

Sorry about the tendonitis. Getting old is a challenge.

 

Another thing I should mention is that the Cryogen soap is rather thirsty, but it's very easy to lather up.

 

Tuesday

Soap: Queen Charlotte unscented
Brush: Omega 49 boar
Razor: Feather AS-D2
Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock SharpEdge yellow
After: Cold rinse, CeraVe lotion

 

Tuesday

Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Executive Man Bath Soap
Soap: Proraso Blue Cream
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Gillette Platinum (1)
Brush: oscar11 2-Band Finest-24mmx50mm
Aftershave: Country Club Sweet Water

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard)

Proraso Blue today. 5 seconds to load the oscar11 brush. Great, easy, thick, lather. I loaded a new Gillette Platinum in the Slim. Excellent smooth, close, shave! I finished with CC Sweet Water.

Bob