SoS: May 7th, 2012 - May 13th, 2012

Monday, May 7, 2012. Good Morning!

Morning Coffee: Hills Brothers Original Blend
Prep: Wash face with Musgo Real Glyce Lime
Razor: Schick I1
Blade: Schick
Soap: Speick
Brush: Semogue LE 2011 Bristle 2
Scuttle: Schwarzweisskeramik
Post: Cold water rinse followed by some Speick After Shave

 

Thank You Shawna

 

Menthol Monday:

Soak Brush/Shavemac 167 custom D01 2 band/Soak Schwarzweisskeramik XL Scuttle
Hot Shower
Proraso PrePost cream
TSD ISZ mixed with 4 drops of M-Bomb
Birthday razor 40's style SS 1951/Red IP (3)
Cold Water Rinse
Monster Block Alum (clean hardware and software,police area)
Cold Water Rinse
Thayer's Medicated Super Hazel followed a few minutes later with
alcolado Glacial "The Penguin" mixed with a pea sized amount of 444

My Dad and I were born on the same day same time opposite years 1951 and 1915.I've found my birth razor but so far I've had no luck finding my dad's.The closest I've come is a Gem 1912,now I know there were razors made in 1915 I just haven't found one yet.I may have to settle for a straight even tho it's hard for me to shave with them because of arthritis.

 

Vintage Week, Monday:

Hot Towel
Burt's Bees SC as pre-shave
Hot towel again
Vintage Old Spice Shaving soap
Every-Ready 100T Boar brush
54' Gillette SS Flair Tip w/ Voskhod blade 2nd shave
Hot water / Cold water rinse
Alum block
Clubman AS
Clubman talc

No Menthol Monday. Decided to go with the vintage week. It was nice to get the Vintage Old Spice shaving soap out. It still lathers great with the ol' Every-Ready brush. What a delightful shave this morning

 

Monday morning, May 7, 2012

Schick E2 Injector Razor w/ Schick blade (10)
Semogue 1305 boar bristle brush,
TABAC shaving soap w/ warm water lather,
finish with cold water rinse for a DFS!

Ten shaves with the Schick blade!

 

Monday, May 7th


Pre-shave: TSD ISZ Pre-shave balm, hot shower
Cream: RazoRock Boston Tea Party
Brush: Simpsons Colonel Xl2
Razor: (This is one for the books) Campbell straight, Koken New Charmer straight, and Merkur Sledgehammer
Blade: Gillette Black Ninja
Post-shave: warm water rinse, cold water rinse, witch hazel

This shave was actually last night at about 11:00, but I'm calling it today's shave. I had a bit of time so I thought I would give my Campbell straight a go. After my first try at honing, last week I found that the straight could have been sharper, so yesterday I attempted to touch it up to get it a bit sharper. It didn't work. It actually took a couple of steps backward and was tugging pretty bad. Ok, put that down and lets try the Koken. Hmmmm, that one was almost as bad and I haven't even touched that razor to the hones. "Well crap!" so much for using the straights for that shave. I picked up my Sledgehammer and proceeded to have a marvelous 3-pass DFS. Have a great day everyone!

 

Gem OCMM
Gem SS PTFE (2)
Semogue 2000
TOBS Avocado
Alum
Superior 70 Bay Rum

I can see the end of the tub of TOBS and will be happy to free up the room in the soap drawer.

 

May 5th
Skipped

May 6th
Music: Grateful Dead Radio
Wash: Nivea Face Wash
Pre-shave Lather: Institut Karité SS
Razor: Merkur 38M
Brush: Vulfix 660S Super Badger
Blade: Personna Super "Lab" (3)
Soap/Cream: GFT Rose SC
Post: 5Savages AS (witch hazel, rum, Tabac cologne)
AS: GFT Coral Skin Food
BBS!

This was one phenomenal shave! just a minor bit of leftover stubble here and there. The IK left my face incredibly clean...almost squeaky clean. I would have thought that this would have made the razor skip more, but I didn't even feel the blade.

In spite of the results, I'm not crazy about the GFT Rose or the Coral Skin Food. This shave finished up my GFT Rose sample tub, but I have plenty of the skin food left in the sample bottle.

Now that I feel I have my Semogue broken in, or close to it, I'm going to alternate between it and the Vulfix. Right now the Semogue is poised to take over as my favorite brush, but I'll reserve judgement until after I get through these cream samples.

Tonight I switch to T&H Sandalwood SC and ASB, and a Rapira Super Stainless blade.

 

Shawna, Corinne and I have separate bathrooms - she has hers for her baths, makeup, etc, and I have mine
for my showers, shaves, etc. (I still keep some creams, soaps, blades, and aftershaves in her bathroom!)

 

SOTD Monday 5-7-2012

13/16 Double Arrow, Full Hollow, Round Point
Proraso PSC
La Toja Classic SC
Omega Boar
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Nivea ASB
Pinaud Virgin Island Bay Rum ASL

 

Monday

Prep: Hot shower, soak brush, hand strop blade
CD: Lightnin' Hopkins ~ The Essence of Lightnin' Hopkins
Coffee: Home roasted, fresh ground Malawi Mapanga AA, BLACK
Cream: Tom's of Maine
Brush: Kriss Kross with original knot
Razor: '61 Fatboy @ 6
Blade: '59 Thin Gillette, day 1, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, ice water splash, Osage Rub, Pinaud Clubman, hand strop blade
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

Shave Rating: 4 Blades

A little burn on the left cheek. Other than that, not bad.

 

If you and Jeff shared the same car ever day going to work and back....You guys could probably have a higher resale value because of the car smelling so GREAT....

 

Cool...I always thought the flair tip SS was a looker....a looker and a shaver...

 

Monday
Brush: hand turned Handle w/ TGN Silvertip Badger knot.
Soap/Creme: MWF
Razor:Merkur Slant
Blade: Rapira SS
Pre: Hot Towel
Post: Lilac Vegetal
Hair Groom: Vitalis
Result: CCS

 

That's some serious menthol!

 

Semogue 830 Boar Brush
Mama Bear Lilac Ice Soap
Weber ARC/Bulldog Handle
Super Iridium Blade
Master's Lilac AS Lotion
TSD Iced Lime AS Milk
tunes-Andrew Bird

 

Monday

• Prep: hot water splash, hot washing cloth, rice bran oil marinade while lathering
• Music: Harry Gregson-Williams, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe OST
• Brush: Omega travel boar
• Soap: TSD Bay Rum
• Razor: Ugly Duckling
• Blade: Feather (#8)
• Shave: 3-pass + touch-up
• Post: hot water rinse, cold water rinse

Made the lather a bit too thin, which didn't help. Had to relather for pass three. But the result was a nice DFS .

Enjoy your week!

 

I can not think of a better person to start the Den's SOS each week. I look forward to your post to start the week Jeff

 

+1!

 

Monday 7 May, 2012
Shower and Shave

Hot shower using Amber Bath bar soap.
Facial scrub with Proraso glycerin, preps the face very nicely.

I chose the infamous #6 Brush to lather. This brush will be the first brush I will attempt to re-knot. Nice handle horrible knot.
For Menthol Monday, I chose Tet-A-Teat shave cream. it was the last of the cream in the tube.

The Condard OC, has not been used recently. I loaded with a vintage Wilknson blade.

A two pass DFS this morning. Post shave a facial rub-down with RazoRock alum, a splash of Clubman Veg.