SoS: February 15, 2016 - February 21, 2016

My kinda shave!! CF is great stuff! Both the soap and aftershave.

 

Saturday

Prep: Warm Shower-Stirling Bath Soap-Gatlinburg
Soap: RazoRock Tuscan Oud
Razor: Gillette Slim
Blade: Personna 74 Tungsten Plus (12)
Brush: Ever-Ready 50R TGN Premium Silvertip-20mmx55mm
Aftershave: Tuscan Oud

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

RR Tuscan Oud today. 20 seconds to load the Ever-Ready Silvertip. Easy, thick, slick, lather. Personna 74 still cruising along. Excellent smooth, close, shave. I finished with Tuscan Oud.

Bob

 

Thank you...I noticed the same thing after I took the photo. I need to get a set of scales like this for one of my own razors. This one is graciously on loan.

 

•Bic Hybrid Comfort 3
•some mystery soap (label came off the can)

2 pass DFS+. Pretty good shave for $2.75 for handle and 6 carts.

 

Cool OS set. Love the "made in west Germany" brush.

 

Hello TSD Another Rockwell shave today:



- RazoRock Mudder Focker
- Whipped Dog High Mountain Badger
- Rockwell 6S
- Rockwell blade
- Homemade Bay Rum AS

Not one of my best shaves, I have to admit. I blame the blade for that - pretty mediocre, a bit tuggy even with the #2 plate (I started with #4 and switched to the milder one for the ATG pass). Somewhere between DFS and BBS-, I'd say.

 

Great set up. I really like that brush. Did you restore it to get it into its amazing condition?

 

SOTD Feb. 20, 2016

Razor - Schick M2 adjustable (with Schick twin blade)
Brush - Muhle 35 K 257
Soap - Proraso sensitive
Pre - Alba botanical coconut lime (not in picture)
Post - Thayer WH / unrefined Shea butter
Bowl - Heavy marble carved with marble eggs.



Interesting shave today used the Alba coconut lime as a pre -shave. It heats up the face mildly like a pepper feeling but not like a chemical burn. Placed hot towel on face to aid in beard softening. Applied the Proraso which felt cool and proceeded to shave WTG ATGx2 and XTG on neck. Wow the twin blades really shinned here. No razor burn and BBS. Only issue was blood on my ear lobe as I somehow managed to go to far. Blade was so sharp that it was a painless minor cut and only realized it due to some red on white lather. Great zero irritation free shave and warm/cold face feel.

 

Fantastic!! Do you have a YouTube link so we can see a previous performance? Thanks for sharing.

 

Saturdays shave:

It's a cold one here in Edmonton...well much colder than where I live now, so the Cat o Nine Tails was needed to warm me up.

 

20feb16

I finally used Arko for the first time. I cut it into medallions and put them in my repurposed KFC container. Works good, lather, scent if fine with me, and will probably be my travel soap/container.
Also with all the talk about AVON lately, I used some Wild Country from the Pawn.

 

Thiers-Issard 7/8
G D Carrington TGN badger brush
Lea Shave Stick
Floid Blue

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I agree!! The GSB is better than the Astra SP in the 34! BBS every time with the combo!

 

I will miss her and Umberto Eco!
To show how much I liked her book - I named my dog Atticus.

 

SOTD
February 20, 2016
Prep: Hot Shower. Noxzema
Razor: Blackland Blackbird
Blade: Voskhod
Lather: Mitchell's Wool Fat
Brush: RazoRock Natural Boar 26x64mm
Post: Thayers Cucumber WH. Gold Bond Ultimate
Aftershave: Pitralon Pure
Killer shave. This RR boar whipped up the MWF like a dream. The Blackbird is automatic.
Never let the things you WANT
Make you forget the things you HAVE!

 

This is a link to a recital I gave last February. It's Schubert's final song cycle: Winterreise (Winter's Journey). It's not for everybody in the sense that it's a dark, troubling story of a man who has been rejected by his lover and wanders through the land discovering his needs and, quite frankly, wallowing in his own misery. It's in German, so here is a link to some background information and an English translation: https://theoryofmusic.wordpress.com...n-of-schuberts-winterreise-poems-by-w-muller/
It's a 70 minute work, so many of you will not make it through, especially if you are unfamiliar with German art songs, but I understand, and should you choose to listen to any part of it, thank you.
Here is the YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJMtKI7-7IU

 

Jeff,
How would you compare the scent (not the frigidity) of the Krampert's vs. the Stirling Glacials? I like the Krampert's Bay Rum, but could learn to like the Frostbite (scent). Same thing with Catie's Bubbles Mile Hile Menthol.