SoS: February 20th, 2012 - February 26th, 2012

Thursday



Muhle R106
7am Blade
The Colonel
MWF
Proraso AS

This was supposed to be yesterday's shave, but thanks to sleeping in yesterday it got postponed. I have had this 7am blade hanging around since day 1 of my DE adventures. I forgot about it until recently, so I decided to give it a try. It was fairly smooth, not as smooth as my red personnas, but not nearly as harsh as a derby. To sum it up I was pleasantly surprised. One thing is for sure...I think the (dried out/old) dregs of my MWF is toast, I cant get a slick lather out of it to save my life! (thank goodness more is on it's way form accross the pond) Today's shave reulted in a pleasant DFS. I am exhausted from the stresses of life, but happy because of the good shave!

 

Live and learn
The Merkur was a little aggressive for a first DE, but over time your skin will toughen and skill improve.
The Merkur 33c will be child's play...then you can move up to a Merkur Slant sledgehammer
The Super Speeds are great razors, from Blue tip thru Red Tip

 

Thursday

Hot Shower(soak brush,Savile Row 3824)
Proraso PrePost creme
Speick shave stick
Feather AS-D1/Polsilver (3)
Cold Water Rinse
Monster Block Alum(clean brush,razor,police area)
Cold Water Rinse
Speick splash mixed with a pea sized amount of 444

Another great shave with the Feather/Polsilver combo,it's really a shame Polsilvers are no longer being made.

 

Thursday morning, February 23, 2012

Schick E2 Injector Razor w/ Schick blade (3)
Omega 10066 boar bristle brush,
MWF shaving soap w/ warm water lather,
finish w/ cold water rinse for a DFS!

 

Thursday is MWF day with a boar
Hot shower
Omega boar
MWF
Gem OCMM
Coldwater rinse
Clubman AS

 

I like! He's the Man!

 

I haven't had time to post my SOS's this past week and 1/2...I did post the one with the Schick the other day....The rest the shaves have been with the same set-up as I'm going to use today and all have been exceptional...I've used the '38 Senator and Perma-Sharp Super averaging 3 shaves a blade. After that they start to rust, still sharp but no thanks...no rusty razors for me...lol
But one day I used a German Wilkenson which I've gotten nice shaves with in my SS but this one pulleed, tugged and bounced. But only for two strokes...then it was properly disposed of...

That should bring us up to speed..All this talk about shaving....I'm now going to grab my Senator and have some fun..."I'll be back.."

 

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Prep: Hot shower; Yardley bath bar
Lather: MWF - face lather
Brush: Vulfix 2234 Super
Razor: Merkur 39C - SlantHammer
Blade: Voskhod (3); 3 passes
Post: Cold water rinse; Krampert's Finest Bay Rum

 

Thusday!

Prep: hot water splsh, hot washing cloth
Music: Regina Spector, Begin To Hope
Brush: DVH boar
Soap: DVH, face lethered- am I getting to be an addict? (DVH is almost done, have to get me a new puck! But that's almost just round the corner for me )
Razor: brandless closed bar
Blade: feather, 6th shave, honed and stropped for the 3rd time on the Allegro mod L
3-pass shave, = some touch-ups

(sorry, forgot to take a pic. My bad.)

And yet again an easy BBS. That might be getting dangerous: I might get used to these easy shaves. But it is soooo nice!

Have a great one each and everyone!

 

Thursday


Pre-shave: TSD ISZ Pre-shave Balm and a hot shower
Soap: MWF
Brush: Firehouse Pottery handle w/ 22mm silvertip
Razor: Schick G1
Blade: Schick
Post-shave: warm water rinse, alum block, cold water rinse, witch hazel
A/S: Boosters Lilac
Moisturizer: L'Oreal Men's Expert Vita Lift w/ SFP 15

I was worried about getting a good lather whipped up with my silvertip, but the Firehouse brush was up to the task. It was a great 3 pass shave until I tried to push it and went for some touch ups and ended up with a weeper on my jawline. Never the less, it was a DFS+ and I have to say that I am really liking this injector. It's effortless and it makes me want to look into getting a couple more; like the one that Lloyd is so fond of. Yeah, I think that would look good in my den. Have a great day everyone, I'm off to check out Ebay!

 

Yeah, great choice, Steve.

 

I bet the weight of that handle helps the silver tip load up the soap better. How's the quality of the hair compared to other knots that we may be familiar with?

 

The Senator is going for the Babes' record...She knocked another out of the park again today!!
Thursday's Shave
1st inning: I rinsed my face with HOT!! I mean HOT!! water
2nd inning: Bowl lather my Arko Stick with my Omega 10029...Lather perfect...
3rd inning: My 1938 Senator/new Perma-Sharp Super, WTG pass a home-run...almost BBS
4th inning: 1 dab of Arko SC to my ''shave-stick lather filled brush for 'bases loaded'-uber-lather
5th inning: Senator knocks this BBS slam out the park!! On this ATG pass the Senator effortly glides around the bases
6th inning: Arko-Nem moisturizer followed by Arko Aqua AS splash provided a wonderful finish to the 'whisker annihilation' by the Senator

All in all a fantastic day at the 'Shave Park'...Whiskers:Zero...Home team: an easy 5 Blade BBS...

 

Thursday, February 23

Gem Micromatic OC
GEM (SS, PTFE) (d1)
Preshave Oil
MWF, Vulfix 2235 Super
Woody’s Rescue
Lucky Tiger Aspen
Result: Hamburger Neck

Had to try the OCMM again. It may not be for me. Will revisit later.

 

Hello from sunny, endless blue sky Arkansas, current temp 75.
Thursday's Shower and Shave
Hot shower using a bar of Razorock Ginseng

Continuing with "MWF Theme Week" Omega "48" was today's lather ninja
Switched the Blue Persona into a Gillette SS Black Handle
After three passes I splashed polar water on my face, then Thayer's Witch Hazel,then Kapo Balm
:wave:jumped with joy to rate this DFS a 10.

 

The quality is great. In fact I don't believe it has even shed one hair! It is super soft and luxurious, but I wouldn't call it floppy, but then again I don't really have any experience with a floppy brush. I can lather my face by swirling like I do with any other brush - I don't have to resort to just painting it on because it splays too much or what not. I hope that gives you an indication of it's floppiness. I had trouble in the beginning getting it to lather soaps, but I think it was because it was too dry. I have since left it pretty sopping and case in point, I went at the "fat" today with it and had no problem getting a really nice creamy lather. It is softer than my best badger Colonel with less scritchyness, but obviously not as much backbone. I am really liking it and the more I use it the more I like it!

 

Awesome, thanks!

 

I really enjoyed the shave I had on Tuesday and decided to do it again:

 

Guess what I'm listening to all evening now!

 

Thursday 23rd February

Facial Scrub
Proraso Preshave cream
Feather Artist Club SS
Simpson Duke 1 in Pure
Mitchell's Woolfat Soap
Simple Toner with 444 ASB
Fixegoiste Ice AS

Todays experiment was the Duke 1 in Pure badger. As an indication of my SBAD....I bought this about 5 years ago and never used it. Tonight was its first trip out. I find the handle to be a little small.....but the brush still whipped up a great lather. I swear......my puck of MWF is noticably smaller after the use it has been getting this week! A relaxed 3 pass shave with the Feather resulted in a BBS....and with noticeably less effort than with any other shaving system I have.