SoS: April 19-25 2010

SOTD Friday April 23, 2010

Razor: 5/8 Slack & Grinold
Soap/Mug: Mitchell's Wool Fat
Brush: Medium Badger
ASB: Nivea Replenishing
Aftershave: No. 4711

Late shave today; early start with the DW's gardening activity. Great shots everyone! Really busy this time of year on the Ranch.
Have a great weekend Gents!

 

Shave Of The Day - April 23rd

• Hot Shower
• E. J. Badger Brush
• Feats of Clay Scuttle
• The "Thing" Cream - 4711 Scent
• Ming Shi TTO
• Derby Blade - Day 1
• Homemade Skin Food
• Osage Rub :freezing :freezing :freezing
• Murray & Lanman Florida Water
• 

After talking with Jeff about his razor, and Danny and Bob talking about the "Thing" cream, I decided to break out the Ming Shi and drive it around my face with cushion and slickness provided by the "Thing". I followed that up with a blast o' menthol courtesy of Osage Rub, and then topped it all off with the great smell of Florida water.

Resulting in one very, very nice shave! :happy005

 

What are you planting?

 

Saturday, April 24th

Hot shower
TSD Subzero ss
Omega 11126 boar
Mühle R106 w/ Red Personna
444 alum
444 ASB

 

Saturday, a good start to the day.

Schick I2 injector with Schick blade
Omega boar brush
Mixture of Ogallala Bay Rum Soap and The Shave Den Sensitive Shave Soap milled together.
Result, DFS.

 

Crappy shower with potable Water
Aveno Shaving Cream (can goo)
Dovo Straight that has to be dull
about 25 deep cuts on my face
Covered those in Aqua Velva
Then covered in Neosporin

I miss shaving at home more then anything out here haha.

 

Saturday:

Ball End Tech razor
Treet Black Beauty blade
Charismata Barber Shoppe SS
Rooney 3/1 brush
Osage Rub
Pinaud Clubman A/S

1st use of the Charismata SS. It's an artisian made tallow based soap that worked pretty well. Need to adjust water ratio of course but very promising. Got a DFS with no problem. Ready to go

 

Saturday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Elios day 3
Tet-a-Tet-SC :love008 :love008 :love008 :happy005 :freezing :freezing
Svoboda-AS Balm :love008 :love008 :happy005 :freezing :freezing
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Skin Bracer Original-AS :love008 :love008 :happy005 :freezing :freezing

Wow, what a delightful cream and aftershave balm, wow, what a delightful cream and aftershave balm, wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, what a shave, wowwwwwwwwwwwww, what a shave, WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :happy102

 

Hey there Sailor, great to see a post by you, hope you are staying healthy and safe.

As always, thanks for serving our country! If you are in need of shaving supplies, let us know, I'm sure something can be done to get you supplied with what you need.

 

Saturday - It's the WEEKEND! :happy069 Time for the SEs

Prep: Hot shower, hand strop blade, soak brush
Coffee: Home roasted Kenya, shot of Bailey's Caramel creamer (caramel hits my sweet tooth)
Soap: Vintage Blade house soap
Brush: ??? Boar
Razor: Ever Ready 1912 w/ ornate handle
Blade: Gem, day 3, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Humphreys Maravilla Lotion, Curve
'Stache Wax: Wacky Tacky

Shave Rating: 4 Blades

I get my best SE shaves from my MMs, but this was still a good one. No complaints. I love the smell of the Vintage Blade soap, and my wife loves the smell of the Curve. I'm a happy camper !

Yes. I know. Coffee any other way than BLACK is just wrong. But sometimes ya just gotta get bad. Caramel is my favorite, and when I saw the Bailey's there as my wife was picking up her French Vanilla, I said, "Eh, why not?" It wasn't too bad. I still prefer my coffee black, but this was a nice change of pace. Definitely not an everyday thing.

 

Hot Shower
Frederick Reynolds Chopper
Semogue 2000
Palmolive Shave Stick
British Sterling

Hang in there Sailor. I remember those kind of deployments. The ones that suck so bad that you miss every little detail about being home, even the stuff that you totally take for granted on a routine basis. Stay safe and get home soon. I'll keep you in my prayers, brother.

 

hahaha The thing I really forget to be thankful for when Im home is not walking a block to the bathroom or shower just to find out its our of water and by this time I need to run to the next one. Not to mention mixing your own Shaving Cream with chlorinated water doesnt work very well at all.

All in all this isnt a bad deployment. Im on a better base then when I was in Afghanistan so we have a 24 hour Gym, a 24 hour Galley (chow hall, DFAC, Mess Hall), and Im a 1000 times safer so my family and loved ones are happy but its driving me crazy being trapped inside these T-Walls.

I reshaved today with my Gillette and a feather blade and fixed my patchy straight shave up.

Thanks for the support.

 

I am so glad I never have to shave out of a listerbag again. And have a crappy field shave. And use Aqua Velva.:taunt002

Sorry I'm having fun at your expense but you'll look back on these times and miss the people you were with and the crap that went along with the situations. And then you'll remember me saying this and laughing at your expense because I don't have to do that anymore and then perhaps you will even make a post similar to this in The Shave Den circa 2025, to the young guy on active duty. :happy102


BE SAFE AND GET THE EFF BACK HOME IN ONE PIECE!

 

Saturday

Razor: Merkur Futur
Blade: Dorco 300 (7)
Brush: Altesse Badger
Soap/Cream: SCS Juniper Mist
A/S: AV Ice Sport

 

Pomco vintage Slant
Feather blade
24mm Silvertip Badger Brush-snake wood handle
Mama Bears Lime Ice SS
Alum block
Anthony Logistics AS




finally got the nerve to put a Feather in a Slant-I may never go back. 5 blades.
Still a bit more work than SE shaving. Sailor, and all current and previous military men/women out there-a sincere thanks for serving. We can argue the politics of the fights until we're blue in the face but nobody can argue that it takes a special person to put their lives on hold and risk their safety for their country.

 

+1 on the first part
+2 on the second

 

Saturday Shave

• hot shower
• Burma Shave boar
• Col. Conk Amber SS
• Gillette flare tip SS
• Derby (3)
• Barbasol Pacific Rush AS

 

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Razor: Jaggerooney
Blade: Super Iridium
Brush: Vulfix 2234 Super
Cream: Erasmic
A/S: Generic Witch Hazel, Speick Balm

Unlike (IMO) the reformulated Erasmic shave stick, the Erasmic cream is a very pleasant and efficacious shave product. I enjoy the scent, too, which is an important part of the experience. The Jaggerooney (Jagger/Muehle head with a Rooney handle in faux horn), paired with a Super Iridium blade, delivered a DFS+, irritation-free shave. And the Speick balm was an excellent finish on this chilly, rainy day.

 

Friday night shave

Prep: Hot shower + Proraso preshave cream
Razor: Merkur long handle "barber pole' style
Blade: Lord's super stainless steel "cool"
Brush: Omega Professional model
SC: Palmolive Classic
Astringent: Thayers Lemon
AS: Pinaud Clubman

Results: In the words of my friend Otto: " a fast ok shave"
Shave On. HOG

 

Thanks for serving. I pray you're safe and home soon. God's blessings to you.