SoS: April 25-May 1 2011

Sunday

Prep: 30 minute marinade with TSD ISZ PSB, hot shower, soak brush, hand strop blade
Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Rwanda, BLACK
Soap: L'Occitane Cade
Brush: Omega 49, the red one
Razor: Gem Lather Catcher
Blade: Gem, day 1, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, L'Oreal Comfort Max ASB, SJ Unforgivable, hand strop blade
'Stache Wax: Firehouse Wacky Tacky

Shave Rating: 5 Blades

Outstanding shave today. I'm really liking the L'Oreal Comfort Max.

 

Sunday, May 01, 2011

Pre-shave soap: Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Razor: Jaggerooney
Blade: Astra Superior Platinum
Brush: Simpson Emperor 2
Soap: Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet (tallow)
A/S: Thayer's Lavender Witch Hazel, Trumper Marlborough Splash

An excellent Sunday shave--smooth, close, and comfortable. I wish this soap would last forever, which is why I use it infrequently. I can't understand the motivation for Penhaligon and other top-drawer companies to reformulate after spending many years building such fine reputations with their old formulas. Maybe it has been found that tallow causes all manner of dreaded conditions, including acquisition disorders, and this information is being suppressed by a secret shaving cabal. :happy102

 

Sunday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Derby day 2
Arko Moist SC
Anherb AS Conditioner :love008 :love008 :freezing :freezing

A very smooth and nice shave this morning, but I really miss my Rapiras. I find that I require a little more effort with the Derbys to get the true BBS results. The Arko Moist cream is good, but it doesn't have enough of a menthol effect by itself, so I gave it a big boost with the Anherb conditioner.

 

Well, there's hope.


Rolls Imperial/Schick type O with Gillette twin blade
Omega boar
Vintage Colgate Cup Soap

Second day in a row trying a Rolls, a different one today. Second day in a row I had to finish with a Schick injector.

The one pass with the Rolls went better today, though. This blade may still need a little more work, but I think it's close. When I started, there was a lot of tugging, just like yesterday. Without much hope, I tweaked the angle slightly, and suddenly I was getting a pretty good shave.

Still a little tugging, and it was extremely hard to keep that optimal angle. I decided not to push my luck and try more than one WTG pass. I finished off with the Schick, for the usual fantastic results.

Definitely worth revisiting next weekend, though. I also have to wonder if the other blade was in better shape than I realized, and I just needed to find the angle.

By the way, this vintage Colgate is great stuff. Don't know how old it is, but I'm guessing 1950s.

 

Sunday:

Razor - Gillette Aluminum Tech
Blade - Feather Hi-Stainless
Brush - Vie-Long Silvertip
Cream - Nancy Boy Signature Scent
A/S - Lucido
Balsam - Lea

--
John

 

.
Razor: Henckels Friodur 17 1/2
Strop: Ambrose Spanish Horse (25/60)
Brush: New Forest 2201
Lather: Valobra stick
AS: Aqua Velva
EdT: Antidote de Viktor&Rolf
Summary: Today I have a special guest in my SOTD picture, my camera, I have used my old pocket Nikon coolpix to shot the pic that you can see below, not bad for less than 4 megapixels....A quality shave because quality never fails, Henckels, Valobra, New Forest are a good company for an excellent shave as this.
.
Picture:

 

Sunday

Shumate 5/8 round tip
VDH Deluxe Boar
Williams Mug Soap
Nivea Sensitive balm
Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue
Grey Flannel edt

 

Sunday - May 1

• '69 Gillette Adjustable (7)
• Personna Platinum (1)
• C&E best badger
• Trader Joe's Honey Mango sc
• C.O. Bigelow 1786 balm
• C.O. Bigelow 1585 cologne

 

Sunday

Razor: Merkur Futur and Kraut & Donhal straight
Blade: Dorco 300 (1) - straight
Brush: Altesse Badger
Cream: KMF Key Lime
A/S: Royall Lyme

First ever attempt at straight razor shaving. Only did partial passes because my 4 year old daughter was in the bathroom watching and talking the whole time. While I love her company, it doesn't do wonders when you are trying to use a straight razor for the first time.

 

The Best Shaves of My Life, are with the Schick I2 Stingrays gave me...Thanks!!!

This razor delivers on a daily basis, nothing less than outstanding shaves. My hats off to those that designed and built this precision instrument...
And also to whoever decided to make it so pretty too...:drool

Sunday

1954-58 Eversharp Schick I2
Rebranded Personna (Day4)
Omega 10029

Arko Shave Stick
Arko Nem moisturizer
Arko Agua AS splash
Guerlain Habit Rouge EDT

What can I say...I get great shaves from all my razors, but this Injector has a consistancy that boggles the mind...Every shave is just perfect... smooth, cool, soft, effortless, yet as close as I would want...

I apologize for all this raving and gushing...It gets redundant so quickly...

 

5/1/11 still in Nar-Lens

Brush:Vulfix Turnback
Soap: Arko Stick
Razor: Rolls Traveler
AS: Armani

Good shave. I'm getting used to the water. AS aint half bad.

 

Shavette Sunday!

Happy Sunday From Florida!

Hot Shower
Green Rubberset Horse Re-Knot
TSD SOTQ B-2
Parker Stainless Shavette
Voskhod Blade (1)
Cold Water Rinse
Anherb Gel
Royal Musk AS

3 Passes = DFS+

I met with Williams Warrior / Keith yesterday and traded a 5/8 Shumate for the Parker Shavette. I have heard that shavettes can chop you up, but using the superior skills gleaned from TSD I pulled off a great shave!

Now I am off to figure out how to use this new Droid thingy. Getting the Tapatalk on there so I can use TSD is my first mission!

Have a fantastic week Ya'll!

 

Sunday!

Hot Shower
Green Marvy Mug
Sabi Badger
AOS Lavender SC
Lady Gillette Stars - Pink
Gillette 7 OC - Black
Cool Water Rinse
TSD D&G Light Blue ASM

I can't get over these blades, what a smooth shave. The Sabi did a good job exfoliating, ended up with BBS legs. It just doesn't get much better than that!

Now, off to finish up my Economics :sick007 homework for the week and play with my new phone.

Have a great rest of your Sunday!

 

Got to work nights, evening shave

Merkur Vision/Perma-Sharp Blade/MWF/Bestshave Horsehair #6/Osaga Rub/Royal Copenhagen cologne ​

I'm working night shift tonight and I have some time for a nice slow relaxing shave. First off it's my first time with the wool fat and I really didn't have high expectations for it. I assumed it was over rated. I have pretty hard well H20 too, so I expected some problems. Well, as with ASSUMPTION you know what can happen. BAM !!!!!!! the lather just exploded on my trusty horsehair, a few swirls in the Old spice mug and it's gushing over the sides !!!! This soap is suppose to be hard to lather ? I certainly didn't expect this. Then to the face, thick really creamy lather, feels good. My 1st impression, well hmmm, this is a darn good soap.

Then on to the Vision, it's Big, real big. I usually like smaller razors. What was I thinking buying this thing? .......... Thirty seconds into the first pass and this vision is so well balanced. The size is not a distraction at all. Very maneuverable and nimble. Once into the groove, the size feels just right. This thing is slick.

Three gentle passes, and I've been rewarded with a total BBS shave, and my skin feels so soft. The MWF and vision have performed exceptional. I am blown away by these two on my first use. Hopefully all future shaves with these products will be of the same caliber.

Great shaves today. Gentlemen have a good evening.

 

Same shave, just a different day

 

Shave Of The Day - May 1st, 2011

• Hot Shower
• Vintage Butterscotch Horse Hair Brush
• Noxema Lather Shave Cream ~ :freezing
• Lord L6 Razor
• Rapira Platinum Lux Blade ~ Day 1
• Thayers Witch Hazel/Osage Rub Blend
• Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue ~ :freezing
• 

The Rapira Platinum Lux blade was on my short list for my next bulk blade purchase, but their availability was a kinda limited at the time, so I tried some other blade brands.

Today's shave just reinforced how well I like the Gillette Permasharp blades, for while I had a nice enough shave, it wasn't as effortless or smooth as the shave I was having from the Gillette blades.

The great lather of the Noxema cream, coupled with the nice finish of the Aqua Velva, still pushed this to a 4 blade shave.