SoS: April 19-25 2010

Hey GI, did you get the edge on that wedge worked out? I'll bet the Red Injun is still your go-to though!

 

If you check out my albums on my personal page under "SOTD" I've got it in a ton of pics-it's on the top row, 4th pic from the left-then on several subsequent ones. I love the brush-I got it from PC Woodwork and Pens-it's 24mm and about $75. It's held up very nicely.

 

C-MON razor
Simpson's Special Best
Speick cream
Speick after shave

 

April 20, 2010

Brush: KBBSBB
Blade: Red IP (3)
Razor: 69 super adj. 7/7

Soap: Mama Bear Christmas Forest
Splash: TSD Ray's Christmas Tree
Milk: TSD Subzero
Cologne: T&H 1805

 

Yeah! THAT Brush! Duh!! :ashamed001 I remember it now, awesome brush! I love that snake-wood's rich grain. Beautiful!

 

Tuesday

Veleiro Pre-Shave Soap
Mitchell's Wool Fat Shaving Soap
Semogue 1305 brush
Bartmann 6/8" Straight Razor
Old Spice After Shave Splash
444 After Shave Balm

 

My 2 week battle with a kidney stone that just wouldn't cooperate is finally over. I have a couple stitches on my left hand that prove you shouldn't handle sharp things while heavily medicated My shaving hiatus ended yesterday morning and it was a pleasure to mow down some serious growth; the Engstrom didn't flinch.

Emperor 2
Prairie Creations Lanolin / Tallow SS
Engstrom Frameback~~
Hand American Keith De'Grau Signature Strop
Witch Hazel
Prairie Creations Golden ASB
Have a Great Night, it's good to be back!​

 

Great to have you back Chris! Those stones are aweful! Take care.

 

Wedges in general, and this one in particular, strike me as very strange animals. The edge on it is good to go, HHT good, and I can't complain at all about the quality of the shaves but it just doesn't seem as crisp and responsive as my hollow grounds. I don't doubt that the wedge is every bit as sharp (if not a bit sharper) than the Imperial or the Red Injun but the shaves from the wedge just aren't as crisp. Unfortunately that's about as good as I can describe it. The wedge is plenty sharp and gives great shaves but it's just kinda there. The hollow grounds seem to much more aggressive. Really not unlike shaving with a 1912 Gem Jr. and then picking up a three piece Gillette Tech. Definitely nothing wrong with the 3 piece Tech but by comparison with the 1912 it just seems kind of anemic. Yeah, that's a good analogy.

 

Tuesday night shave

Prep: Hot shower + proraso preshave cream
Razor: Filarmonica Doble Temple. Stropped 30/30 in fabric and red latigo
Brush: Omega Silver tip. Lucresia Borgia Series
SC: C.O. Bigelow + SRD Scuttle.
Astringent: Thayers Lemon
AS: Italian Floid.

Result: BBS shave much enjoyed. Shave On. HOG

 

Tuesday

• hot shower
• KMF mint SC
• 25 mm EJ silvertip
• Gillette NEW
• American Personna (2)
• Clubman VIBR

I love Clubman VIBR don't get me wrong, it is one of my favorites in fact, but I swear I have read about the "cooling" effect peole speak of in the reviews and I get nothing but burn. Its not bad burn but you can certainly tell the clove oil is in the mix. It goes away and actually feels kind of good but cooling, I find it not. Sorry for the Yoda speak toward the end there.

 

Wednesday, 21st April

Hot shower
Kent's Luxurious shaving soap
Kent BK2 grey Badger
5/8 W&B wedge
Nivea AS Balm

 

Shave Of The Day - April 20th

• Hot Shower
• E.J. Badger Brush
• Feats of Clay Scuttle
• Speick Shave Cream
• Clix 500 Razor
• Rapira Swedish Supersteel Blade - Day 1
• Home Brewed Skin Food
• Aqua Velva Classic Sport
• 

Love that Speick scent, combine it with the Rapira blades and Clix razor, made for a great shave!

 

Razor: Norikazu Kanetake
Brush: Omega 10275
Soap: Mitchell's Wool Fat
AS: Superior 70 Bayrum, AII Osage

 

I think you nailed it with the last two sentences GI. The heavier blades just don't give you the feedback and the feeling that they are cutting anything. That's true with the less hollow grinds as well. My S & G is a 1/4 - 1/2 grind and I can tell the difference between it and my Solingen full hollow. The S & G feels like a butter knife spreading the shave soap on my cheek but it's cutting so smooth and slick you can hardly tell it's cutting anything.
I think it's all a matter of preference at that point and the choice of what blade geometry is a personal thing. (That's why we have some many razors in our collections!) I can't wait to get my Tiger wedge back from the honer to give it a try but, I really, really like the S & G 1/4 hollow blade. Those Sheffield blades are awesome cutters!

 

Wednesday, April 21 st

Hot shower
VDH Deluxe mugsoap
VDH Deluxe boar
Mühle R89 w/ Gillette 7 O'clock
De Vergulde Hand alum
444 ASB w/ La Toja splash
Joop! Go EdT

 

Wednesday

Fatboy on 5
British Wilkinson blade
Omega Boar brush
Lancs. creamware scuttle
Wilkinson Blue Bowl s/s
Draggon Noir a/s
Malizia vetyver e de t

I love those NOS Wilkies!

goshawk

 

Wednesday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Elios day 3
Solo Menthol-SC :happy005 :love008
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Max Refreshing-AS :happy005 :love008
Versace L'homme-EDT

This is another wonderful cream that is very easy to get addicted to--here's a photo of it!

 

Wednesday:

Lord Smart razor
Big Ben blade
Palmolive Classica SC
Rooney 3/1 brush
Osage Rub
Pinaud Clubman A/S

Look good, feel good, smell good. What a way to start the day

 

Hot Shower
Boker 6/8" Barber Tip
Semogue 1305
Arko Shavestick
Mentholated Witch Hazel/Corn Huskers Lotion
Murray and Lanman's Rose Cologne

Didn't really have time for a 3 pass shave this morning...but I did one anyway. I'm BBS and off to be a happy idiot. Cheers!