SoS: Mar 22 - 28 2010

LaToja
Semogue 2000
Ball End Tech
Crystal
WH and Bigelow Green ASB

 

Friday

Razor: Merkur Futur
Blade: Gillette Spoiler - Y4 (3)
Brush: Omega Boar
Soap/Cream: Omega
A/S: Master Bay Rum

 

Fascinating Friday



Razor: Merkur Futur - dialed on 2 (Thanks Bullgoose)
Blade: Super Iridium
Brush: Fordran Best Badger
Cream: TOBS Rose
AS: Geo T. Lime Skinfood

Preshave: lathered on the TOBS Rose, hot towel on face and neck for for two minutes, wiped of excess soap. Lathered again for my usual four pass shave. BBS, ohhhh soooo smoooooth!

 

Friday

Prep: Hot shower, hand strop blade, soak brush
Coffee: Home roasted Costa Rica Tarrazu, black
Soap: TSD SubZero
Brush: Treville Daxer
Razor: Gillette Sheraton
Blade: ASR packaged for AAFES, day 5, 3 passes
Post: Cold water rinse, Brut A/S balm
'Stache Wax: Wacky Tacky

Shave Rating: 3 blades

The Sheraton is too mild for my liking. I'll continue to use it every now and then just because I like the vintage vibe.

From a look at some of the other posts, not only do we have "Menthol Monday", but it seems we now have "Frigid Fridays"!

 

Bengall 5/8 // Rooney 1/2 Finest // SRD Bulgarian Rose
SCS Rosa Damascena AS// C&S 88
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SOTD Friday March 26, 2010

Old Timer's Shave Day!

Razor: 1912 GEM SE
Blade: GEM Personna S/S
Soap: VDH
Mug: '48 Vintage Old Spice
Brush: Col Conk Barbershop Badger
ASB: Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Aftershave: Pinaud Virgin Island Bay Rum

DFS this morning with the GEM!

Great shaves shown by all Gents!

 

Musgo Real Glyce Lime Oil Soap
Rooney 2/1
Renhaligon's English Fern
Merkur HD
Super Iridium (1)
Mr. Taylor A/S
Nivea Sensitive ASB

 

Friday:

Muhle R89/ Bluebird
Omega Boar
QED Mocha Java SS
444 ASB
Nature's Gift Sandalwood Splash

 

Grandpa Shave Friday:

Vulfix 247 pure badger
Williams SS
Gillette Super Adjustable (9)
Personna (day5)
Witch Hazel
CVS Old Spice

Getting some good results with the new (to me) technique on the Williams. This blade seems to be lasting forever on the Super Adjustable. Maybe because I haven't been doing as many passes due to lack of time this week.

Sorry no photo, this was a one pass and out the door.

 

Grandpa Shave Friday

Hot Shower
1910 Gem Lather Catcher
VDH Boar Brush
Williams Soap
Brut Splash

 

Barber Shave Today

Today I finally went to Frank, my Italian Barber for a real barber shave. It was outstanding. He gave me some good tips-says I'm putting too much pressure on my neck-advises against going for BBS on neck. He used Master soap,
a Schick Injector straight edge and Lucky Tiger Balm. He used some conditioner before he did anything but I'm not sure what it was. I think I had about 10 hot towels-one or two before each step. I've got more pics in my album and on a separate post, here's a small sample.

 

Dubl Duck Special
Rooney 1/1 Super
Ogallala Bay Rum soap
Booster Island Bay Rum

 

Congrats Danny, it sounds and looks like you had a great time!


Shave Of The Day - March 26th

• Hot Shower
• Burma Shave Boar Brush
• Vintage Tallow Soap
• Feathershave S/E
  [*]Modified Gem Blade - Day 2
  [*]TSD A/S -4711 Type Scent
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Changed up my grip, and payed even closer attention to technique with the Feathershave resulted in another very, very close shave.

Still the loudest razor I have ever shaved with! Because of the Gem S/E blade without the spine on the back, and only two small contact points with the razor frame, means the blade absolutely rings when in use.

 

Saturday

Re-knotted EverReady best badger
Ogallala Bay Rum soap
Ever Ready 1924 razor with Walgreens Gem Personna blade.
Another DFS. This style of razor works just about as well for me as a Gem 1912. This is actually my second razor of this style; I just moved the blade to it this morning because I wanted to try them both.

 

Saturday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Goodfella/Elios day 2
Williams Menthol-SC :love008 :freezing
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue-AS

I am so addicted to menthol, that it's unbelieveable. I absolutely love this Williams cream, because the scent is wonderful, the lather is so thick and easy to create, and the cooling effect is fantastic.

 

Saturday

Razor: GEM Micromatic
Blade: Pella SE (5)
Brush: Altesse Badger
Soap/Cream: Tabac
A/S: Pinaud Clubman

 

Hot Shower
Vitamin E Oil Pre-shave
Frederick Reynolds Chopper
Semogue 1305
Arko Shave Soap/Vitamin E Oil
Mentholated WH
Murray and Lanman's Florida Water

Now this was a proper BBS shave! Two passes (WTG and XTG) with the soap and a third touch up pass with the vitamin E oil. Definitely a two day shave, I probably won't need to shave tomorrow but I will anyway. This vitamin E oil makes a bit of a mess but is very nice as either a pre-shave or a soap replacement for a touch up pass (much easier to see rough spots). Lynrd Skynrd, .38 Special and The Outlaws provided tunes making Florida Water the obvious choice for post shave fragrance.

 

Hot shower
Merkur 15c
Feather Blade
Penworks ST1-24E Silvertip Badger Brush
TSD Iced Bourbon Vanilla Soap/AOS Sandalwood Super Lather
Thayers WH / Cold water rinse
AV Ice Blue

 

Harner Custom - 11/16 quarter hollow with Black Mulga scales
Shavemac Custom - horn handle with D01 hair
D.R. Harris Rose Cream // Speick AS and Cologne
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You my good Sir, have some totally amazing straight razors. I've never seen one of your razors that wasn't impressive. If I may ask, how many in your current fleet? Roll Tide indeed!