SoS: April 9th, 2012 - April 15th, 2012

Thank you Randy! I woke up today with way less pain than yesterday!

 

Less pain, more gain! Glad to see you are feeling better.

 

Saturday! Rolls time!

• Prep: hot water splash, hot washing cloth
• Music: Maroon 5, It Won't Be Soon Before Long
• Brush: Wilkinson Sword, badger / boar
• Soap: DVH
• Razor: Rolls Razor
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water splash, cold water splash, TSD Witch Hazel Cedarwood

A nice shave again with the Rolls Razor. Close to BBS. Just along the jaw line not quite. I am appreciating the Rolls more and more. As I get to know it more the shaves are becoming more comfortable. I am already looking out to tomorrow's Rolls shave!



Felt like bowl lathering today, so I could feel the luxury of a warm lather. I usually use an old Tabac mug for bowl lathering. That bowl is way too small for the DVH brush, so I used my Wilkinson Sword brush, which I had glued together again (the knot had come out). The 2nd pic shows the difference in knot size between the DVH and the Wilkinson Sword. I prefer the larger DVH brush. After some weeks of DVH face lathering the Wilkinson feels rather small...

I decided on a whim to have some Witch Hazel as well for post-shave. Glad I did! Smells good!

(the ducks said they wanted to appear in the pic as well, so...)

While lathering I was thinking about the need to have a larger mug (preferably a scuttle! So thinklikeh20, if your brother needs someone to test some scuttles.... ). And about the way a scuttle has ridges on the inside to promote lather build-up. Then I thought about a pudding mould. It is large enough for a larger brush and it has ridges! I don't think SWMBO would be happy if I used our antique one, though...
Does anyone else have experience with something like this?

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

Saturday
Music: Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath (1970)
Brush: Franks Shaving 28mm Silvertip
Razor: Bull Mastiff XL
Blade: Super Iridium
Prep: Hot Shower
Scuttle: Schwarzweisskeramik L
Überlather: GFT Eucris Soap, Shaving Cream
Post: Cold water, Alum


Maiden voyage for my recent GFT Eucris acquisition. Lathered well, cushion and slickness were fine. A little dry on the finish. 3 pass BBS

 

Great choice!
But careful with headbanging whilst shaving!

 

Glad to hear you are feeling better.

 

Saturday's Shower and Shave;
Hot shower with Amber Bath Works, bar soap.
Facial prep Proraso, glycerin soap. Prep the face nicely.
The Vulfix boar was next in the line-up for lathering. I really enjoy this brush, it is a lathering monster.It is a very dense brush, unlike my other brushes I do not think this one is going to bloom out.
An English made brush lathered an English made soap cream Taylor of Bond St. Avocado.
Decided to use my Super Adjustable with a blue Persona dialed into #7.
After three passes a cold water splash. An application of RazoRock Alum, cold water rinse. Pat dry the face splash on witch hazel and the finishing touch Kanaga water.

The panel of :wave:were thrilled gave the DFS, a stunning 10.







Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

 

I like the way you take care of your pics. Great work!

 

Saturday:
Brush: Semogue 830 banded boar
Razor: Merkur 41C open-comb "1904"
Blade: Store branded Personna ASR stainless, 3 or 4 | trimmed Feather blade as a shim
Soap: La Toja shave stick
Toner: Thayer's Rose Petal witch hazel
Finish: Speick AS splash with a touch of Prep pre-post cream

Pretty darn good. Though I think I should retire this blade soon, just a little less than ideal, but still a good shave! Happy Shaving!

 

Saturday:
6/8 Vostok razor
Vie-Long horsehair brush
Williams mug soap/Red Line SC uberlather
Cold water splash
Alum
Cold water splash
Nivea AS balm
Tried to use the newspaper instead of a pasted strop to see how our grandpas could use a single strop to touchup the razor. I can say that newspaper works nice. Slow-cutter ;-) but results the very keen edge. Nice!

 

Saturday
Dovo Astrale 5/8 (TI Paddle Strop)
Semogue 1305
MWF
Cold Water Rinse
Clubman Pinaud Classic.

I haven't tried the newspaper trick however I've been considering just mounting a hook on my bathroom wall so I can get a hanging strop with a linen backing. The paddle strops are nice, but we'll see I guess. My new coticule should be here Monday too, perhaps excessively expensive for finishing/maintenance but I got it for the same price as a barber hone.

 

April 14th
Wash: Shower
Pre-shave: eShave Verbena Lime Preshave Oil
Razor: Merkur 38M
Brush: Vulfix 660S Super Badger
Blade: Sputnik (2)
Soap/Cream: http://www.eshave.com/mini-travel-kit-verbena-lime
Post: 5Savages After Shave
AS: ehttp://www.eshave.com/mini-travel-kit-verbena-lime
DFS+

A while back I came across the eShave travel kit, but unlike the kit I linked to, the one I got has a single container of oil, cream and ASB in a green drawstring bag. They were being cleared out for only $1 each and I bought the only 2 left. My first experience with this collection was at a YMCA camp, using cold well water and my Gillette Guard razor. In spite of that and being in a hurry, it gave me a great shave.

This time I took my time, used warm, softened water, and my 38M and the result was the same. eShave products may be just as moisturizing for my face as the Mystic Water products. My face felt incredibly moisturized all day. I'd have to try head to head to see how it compares to MW. I'm looking forward to using this kit up. The scent is very nice too. I didn't think I would like a lime scent, but I do.

 

Saturday Night Shave:

Hot shower, Yardley bar soap
Ginger's Garden Shaving Soap, baby powder scent I LOVE this stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tweezerman badger brush
Custom scuttle
54 Gillette SS Flair Tip w/ Rapira SS blade 2nd shave
Hot water rinse, cold water rinse
Dickinson's Witch hazel
Clubman AS
Clubman talc

 

Give it a try, Justin! I just wrapped a newspaper over the loop strop and strop on the paper. The process is slow but gives you a wide space for mistake - a single wrong lap will not ruin the edge. Besides, the resulting edge is very smooth. The newspaper works much like linen (IMHO) or the leather with the fine paste. I like that trick. As for the hones, I use 3000/8000/12000 Naniwas and happy with the results. Newspaper seems to be a nice addition to close the gap between stropping and touching up on 12000. Don't know why, but I have to touch up my straights every 3-4 shaves...

 

I really like the scuttle!

 

Sunday

• Prep: hot water splash, hot washing cloth
• Music: Godley & Creme, Changing Faces – The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme
• Brush: Wilkinson Sword, badger / boar
• Soap: vintage Williams
• Razor: Rolls razor
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up

Post: hot water rinse


DFS+
This shave was a bit rougher than yesterday's shave. I guess this blade needs a bit more sharpening. (since I've got three blades, I'm in the luxury position where I am able to rotate the blades with each shave.) Other than that, a really nice shave again!

Have a great sunday!

 

Sunday, April 15

Gem Push Button
GEM (T. Pella SS PTFE ) (d1)
MWF, Tweezerman Badger
Bay Rum Blend
TSD Bay Rum Cologne
Result: A "very" good DFS on 3 passes.

 

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Prep: Hot shower; Yardley bath bar
Lather: RazoRock XXX - face lather
Brush: Semogue 1250
Razor: Schick I1 Injector
Blade: Chinese Schick (1); 2+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse; Krampert's Finest Menthol

Brand new blade today & loaded up the E2. After spending over a week with the I1 I can really feel the difference. With the E2 I can feel the blade more on my face & I got a great DFS with 1 less pass.

 

Sunday:

Soak Brush/Savile Row 3824
Hot Shower
Proraso PrePost cream
Razorock XXX shave soap
Muhle R41 Grande/ Derby (2)
Cold Water Rinse
Monster Block Alum (clean brush,razor,police area)
Cold Water Rinse
The Veg mixed with a tiny amount of 444

Nice 3 pass BBS shave with the R41 Derby combo,pretty smooth shave(for a R41) as well.I skipped shaving Thunderdome,I think the R41 is just a lil too aggressive for headshaves,I may give another try one of these days.

 

Prep L'Occitane Lavender Soap
Feather Artist club SS
Feather Blade light ?
Le Tuft Le une Grande
Truefitt & Hill West Indian Limes
Alum + Witch Hazel
Botanics Moisturiser SPF 15
Coty Raw Vanilla Eau De Cologne.

Jamie.

Two pass shave, gave the Feather light blade a run out today after using the Feather Pro blade for some time, I won't be using the light blade ever again.