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

Sat evening shave-

Dovo Bismarck
Rudy Vey Vintage Restore Silvertip
Palmolive Menthol SC
TSD Iced Peppermint Splash
Mamabear's Unscented Winter AS Balm
Music-Rush-Fly By Night
-dfs but had to work much too hard for it. Blade needs a honin'

 

Sunday Night

A thoroughly British line up!

Rolls Razor
Simpson 57
Nanny's Ice & a Slice hard soap
Alum
Pashana Original AS


I bought a couple of Rolls Razors last year and managed to put together 1 good one and some spares. I did hone the best blade on my coticule but alas although I was able to get one of the blades sharp enough to shave it was never as good as a real straight, I put this down to not being able to strop properly. So today I replaced the leather on a strop and put Crox powder on another strop that was just about OK. So I went with the internal hone then moved onto the Crox strop then onto the newly refurbished strop.

I then checked the HHT and it was brilliant. Tonight's shave was excellent, the angle of the handle means that I can do an ATG stroke on the awkward bits of my neck and the safety bar meant that I was happy to do the equivalent of the fools pass.

I never really aim for a BBS but tonight it was so easy and the feedback from the alum and aftershave was negligible. I must bring this into my rotation properly!

 

Hot shower
prep preshave
28mm best
MWF
Gillette replate w/ Gillette spoiler
Coldwater rinse
AV Ice Sport

 

Oh YES! I dreamed of a day when my friend Jeff will grab the straight finally and call it a success!
Jeff, if you find yourself to be in mood to use the straights on constant basis, I promise to send you a nice and very sharp gift from back the Soviet time!
My hands were shaking after a heavy workout, so I put away the straight and grab the OCMM.
OCMM/GEM SS PTFE
Vie-Long horsehair brush
Tabac SC
Ceramic bowl
Cold water splash
So nice and smooth!

 

Doug, the Rooney Heritage is a fantastic brush. A good balance of extremely soft tips and adequate backbone. SWMBO does enjoy the Creed T.M.

We've been married a long time and I learned when to stumble during the chase so as to enjoy the pleasure of being caught.

 

Parker 22R
VDH soap
Ever Ready piglet
Derby blade
Clubman Special Reserve a/s
Dirty English cologne

3 passes and a DFS

 

Sunday 2/26/12 0830hrs

Prep: Warm shower with Old Spice Fiji and Everyman Jack Cedarwood
Razor: Merkur 1904/1906 ?
Blade: Vokshod (2)
Soap: Proraso
Brush: VDH Badger
Post: CWR (not used to it but I liked it)
AS: Skin Bracer Original
Was going to use the Gillette Adj again but the Merkur was just looking at me all shiny. I still don’t know if this is a 1904 or 1906 model. I got it from WCS and the box said 42c. Anyway did one pass WTG and a couple of touch ups.

 

Thanx Mike. I was getting bored so it's time. Thanx again.

 

Thanx Bill. i did band rehearsal today and did need to sit a bit, but I still had a blast.

 

Thanx Buddy. My Sirius unit went down, I am a music person. Boring. Thanx for your kind words

 

Sunday Night Shave:


Gem OCMM and a CVS SE blade
22mm Best in custom handle
Vintage Williams
TSD Barbershop ASM
Styptic Pencil.....and more styptic pencil

That's right. After tonight's shave I felt it appropriate to include the styptic pencil in the SOTD picture as it played such a prevalent role. I have been hearing lots of fanfare around these parts about the OCMM, and it got me thinking. I vaguely remembered getting one of these as an add-in to an EBAY purchase many months back. After about 5 minutes of digging around the back of my bathroom drawer, I found it, gave it a boiling bath and a little love with a toothbrush and set about my work. Now, I have been wet shaving for just about a year and consider myself to be pretty good at it. I'm not afraid of a straight razor and consider the "super aggressive" R41 to be my go to shaver. I suppose that I did not give the OCMM the respect that it deserves as I typically consider SE shaves to be a tad boring. UNCLE! That hurt.....hurt my face....hurt my pride. I should probably tend to my wounds and move on to something safer.......but I think I like it. This reminds me of my first DE shave when I was apprehensive about even setting the DE89 against my face. Shaving just got exciting again.

 

And just think, SE week starts up 3/5!

 

I think by then i will be ready. On another note I have a coffee roasting kit on the way to me so expect a flurry of questions to be coming your way!!