SOS: January 2019

Tuesday SOTN

I pulled out my recently acquired Canadian fat handled Gillette Tech. Pretty smooth sailing, maybe slightly more efficient than my American one? 4th shave with the Super Platinum Plus - no issues. I love face lathering with Ogallala...you smell the Bay Rum, sandalwood, faint vanilla. Very relaxing before bed. Have a great night everyone.

Josh

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Vca!

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NEARLY GOT the 1 Pass with the DE!!! Miss was small area on neck and totally a technique slip, this cast OC head means business with a great blade.
Hybrid Maggard Razor V2 OC on Charcoal Goods Stinger 2 Antq Brass/ Gillette Platinum Super Thin Thai / TDR Butterscotch Boar / MDC Vétyver LE

Looking forward to seeing how this head fairs against the Karve OC (D?) plate and the RR Wunderbar Slant.

 

tuesday night 40s shave..
nos brit flat bottom tech shave set ,first use,
40s brush and soap stick..came with set..
special reserve a/s..

 

Tuesday Night Shave

Prep: Cold Water Rinse
Razor: Rockwell 6C (R6)
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Turn-N-Shave
Lather: RazoRock ~ The Freedberg
Post: Alum; Thayer’s Witch Hazel; Fine Platinum AS



Today’s music provided by:
KISS ~ Destroyer

 

Tonight's shave was with a newly acquired, restored,and honed razor. I had a very smooth and noisy 2 pass shave, with minor touch-up, around the chin, that left me BBS. Excellent razor.

Razor- Henckels
Brush- B400 By Tom
Soap- Taylor of Old Bond Street: Eton College, Gentleman's Shaving Cream.
Aftershave- Arctic Blue.

 

January - Shavettes and Jeeves!

January 29 - Blade Trial

Razor - 1962 (H1) Gillette Slim (9)
Blade - (3)
Soap - Arko
Brush - The Canuck
Post - Alum, The Mighty Veg

Final shave of the Lamix blade trial. So far so good with the mild and regular shaves going quite well. The blade clearly isn't as bad as I feared it would be and that's a good thing. Tonight we open the Slim all the way and I chose the Canuck to whip the Arko into shape. That SynBad fan style brush really is nice to work with.

Three full passes and almost from the start I had a few issues. As long as I stayed on the cap things worked pretty well. Come off the cap and it turned a bit rough and even created one nick on my right cheek. Nothing serious but not the smooth blade from the previous two shaves. Unless I stayed well up on the cap. Riding the cap keeps the angle of attack low which partially negates the extra gap on the wide open razor. In other words - in an aggressive setting this blade went rogue on me. I do have to ask if it's because of a lack of sharpness inherent in the blade or caused by this being its third shave. I have another of these blades I'll try fresh on the high setting first one of these days to settle that bit of curiosity.

Alum was quite warm, indicating my feeling of it being rough and irritating was true. Interesting finish if only because it sets up the need to do this trial backwards and see what the true cause is. Now, as for the finish? Another near-BBS, just not as comfy as the first two. So no major complaints. It's just that if I didn't know about the other two results and got this one I might infer it's a bad blade. It's not. It's just a better than average blade with a weak spot somewhere. I'll find it out one of these days.

Two more days in January then it's off to February Favorites! Can't wait to see the stuff you like the best for a month. Have a great night and a better Wednesday! Currently 9 degrees F here which will be our high tomorrow. I still haven't gotten my heavy winter coat out. And I'm not gonna let this little dip in the weather force me to do it. I have something to say to Old Man Winter -

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January 29

Parker SRX
Rapira Swedish Supersteel (2)
B-400 by Tom handle w/Envy White Supreme Two-band
Soap Commander Love
Alum, Thayers WH, USB, Aramis & Captain's Choice Bay Rum
28th focus shave

 

Wolf whiskers brush, Wofman razors-Guerrilla, Gillette silver blue, Apothecary 87 shave cream

 

Hump day - good luck boys

Eleven - first shave with this soap brand
Blackland Dart
Voshkod ⚀
Ivory hive 30mm badger
3 pass

POST
Alum
Alvarez Gomez AFS
Eleven blue spruce ASB

CD Eau Sauvage EDP




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My first KISS LP! I was a huge hit halloween at St. Patrick’s Private School in 2nd grade showing up as Ace Feely in costume and makeup, dang my Ma Rocked.

 

Double the razors, double the fun...
For the hunters, a Morley & Sons with a cool scale design. Plus the Geneva Cutlery in the black.
Brush: Maggards synthetic
Soap: Blades Grim Smolder
A/S: Razorock XX

Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

Wednesday 30th January



La Toja Magno Soap
Proraso Sensitive Pre Shave
Arko Shave Stick
Omega 11137 Boar Brush
CJB Japanese Style Razor with a Proline-P
Alum and Rinse
Witch Hazel
Palmer's for Men Moisturiser
Blue Stratos

Everything performed well to give a BBS with 2 passes and a touch up

 

Date: 30 January 2019

Pre-shave:- Cold Water straight from the tap
Brush:- Maseto 2 Band Finest Badger Black 30/54mm knot
Soap/Cream:- Haslinger Salbei (tallow)
Bowl/Scuttle:- Captain's Choice
Razor/Blade:- Gillette US Ball End Tech K2 1965 / Vintage NOS Gillette Super Stainless (spoiler) #4
Post-shave:- Thayers Witch Hazel & Tea Tree Oil / WAHL Bay Rum Aftershave Splash
Fragrance:- L'Eau Bleue D'issey Pour Homme

 

Good Morning Everyone SOTD 01/30/19

'52 Gillette Super Speed
Personna (3)
Erskine 3103 Boar
Williams
Cold Water Rinse, Alum Block
Pinaud Special Reserve A/S

Have A Great Day!

 

SOTD 20190130.



J&T® purpleheart / Hebei Oumo synth.
Ariana&Evans "Tertius" shaving soap.
Timeless Ti 0.68 OC / Stork Ti "Taipan" handle.
Lord Platinum Class (5).
Loris "So Oud" EdP.

 

That story is fantastic! Just made my mornIng. Movie plot worthy!

 

SOTD January 30, 2019
Alphabetical journey through soaps and creams
Letter S

Prep: Cold water and Stirling mentholated pre-shave soap
Blade: Schick
Razor: Schick J1
Brush: JR #60 synthetic
Soap: Soap Commander Vision
Post: Witch hazel, Soap Commander Vision aftershave

Have a great day!

 

76 black beauty set to 5
Sterling Nag Champa
Parker blade
Alum

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Williams Wednesday's Shave


Cold Water Wash
Williams Mug Shaving Soap
Jayaruh #313
AutoStrop A1
Modified Gem SE
CWR
English Leather

My prep was just a cold water rinse. The Williams Mug Shaving Soap face lathered well with the Jayaruh #313 badger brush. I did two passes with the AutoStrop A1 razor with a modified Gem SE blade and ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, I finished off with English Leather AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...