SoS: November 15-21 2010

Ya never know 'til ya try

Glad to hear you had a great shave.

 

Friday, November 19th

• Razor: EJDE89L
• Blade: Super Iridium
• Brush: Rooney 2 Band Stubby 1
• Soap: Valobra Stick
• After Shave: Ferrari ASB
• Cologne: Ferrari Red

 

Friday - Nov. 19
Thank goodness it's Friday! Good Lord my day has been awful... at least my shave was good.

EJ 86
Shark stainless (5)
TGN 20mm pure re-knot
Park Avenue Cool Blue sc
Aqua Velva
Navy for Men edt

 

Friday

Calani "Cadre Noir"
Semogue 2030
MERKUR 34c
Rapira (Three colours)
4711 Portugal

 

Rooney 1/2 Super
Greenpond Sandalwood SC
Black Diamond Wedge
TM Artisan--Cotton / Latigo
Witch Hazel
Smooth Sandalwood EDT

Hope Everyone has a nice Holiday Week--I'm off to the Mountains in the morning for a little vacation. See ya' in a week or so.

 

Merkur XL Progress
Astra Kerimik Blade
Speick Stick
Rudy Vey Finest Badger Brush
TSD 2x Iced Lemon and Cedarwood AS Splash
TSD Iced Cedarwood AS Milk


-great shave, rough day. Sipping some Lagavulin now so all is ok.

 

Dubl Duck Special
Rooney 1/1 Super
Ogallala Bay Rum soap
Pinaud Clubman after shave

 

Gem 1912 G3
PAL Super D-1
Gulliver Boar
Speick Shave Stick
WH
Aqua Velva Musk

 

Saturday, November 20

Gem Push Button Gold Lid
Ted Pella Stainless Coated (3)
Arko/TSD Blend
Vulfix 2235 S
Bay Rum Menthol-Lime Blend

4.7 Blades on 3 passes. The A/S blend consists of Dominica Bay Rum Lime, Clubman BR, Masters BR, Master Blue and Osage Rub. Convenient for travel and delightful.

 

1912 Gem SE
Gem Stainless Blade
Vulfix Boar Brush (Just got it, needs breaking in.)
Williams Mug Soap
WH
British Sterling AS

Alan

 

Saturday:

Omega Wooden Handle
Super Speed/Sputnik day 3
Eveline Aloe Vera SC :love008 :love008 :love008 :love008 (from Poland)
Eveline Aloe Vera AS Gel :love008 :love008 :love008 :love008 (from Poland)
Lubriderm unscented moisturizer
Black Garter Cologne

This Eveline Aloe cream and matching aftershave are both wonderful--the cream lathers like a champion, and provides excellent skincare. The matching aftershave gel is very cooling and soothing. They are made in Poland, but they were sent to me from Russia.

 

Saturday - it's the weekend! :happy069 Time or the SEs!!

Prep: 30 minute marinade with TSD ISZ PSB, strop str8, hot shower, soak brush
Coffee: Home roasted Kenya, BLACK
Strop: Vintage Blades 2" Black Latigo/Linen
Soap/Cream: C&E Nomad super lather
Brush: Treville Dexar
Str8: Hand Forged Red Imp with bloodwood scales by Gemstar Customs, 3+ passes
Post: Cold water rinse, Humphreys Maravilla Lotion, Curve
'Stache Wax: Steve's Own

Shave Rating: 5 Blades

A really fun shave this morning. Don't know why. Maybe it was Jimmie Bratcher in the background diggin' some blues.

As I enjoy the scent of lavender in my shave soaps, I picked up a bar of Yardley English Lavender bath soap last night. Used it this morning. Very nice.

 

Saturday. Cheap stuff.

Surrey Soap
VdH boar brush
Gillette Atra with CVS cartridge

Slumming with the cartridge again today. One or two more shaves with this, then back to my injectors. Not a bad shave, not a great one.

 

Happy Saturday From Florida!

Hot Shower
Hot Water Rag
RAB Scuttle
PanChango Finest Re-Knot
Mugso SC
Star 3-Piece
Voskhod Blade (5)
Cold Water Rag
Clubman A/S
Nivea Sensitive ASB

4 Passes = 4 Blade DFS!

Have a great weekend Ya'll!

 

Vacation: The Stryker House Day 3

Hot Shower
Green Marvy Mug
TGN SilverTip ReKnot
TOBS Avocado SC
Lady Gillette Stars - PINK
Super-Max Blue Diamond Platinum (2)
Cool Water Rinse
Victoria's Secret "Candy, Baby" Lotion
Pe-Re-Ja Cologne

Another great shave with the Super-Max and I can't get enough of the sweet scent of the lotion mixed with the lemony goodness of the cologne. :love008:love008:love008

I did not, however, care for the brush/cream combo. The SilverTip is a very floppy brush and did not lather the cream the way my stiffer Omega Pro Boar lathered it. It was a tad disappointing, but the razor/blade combo and the aromas wafting off me more than make up for it. I suppose it would be safe to say I much prefer a stiff one to a floppy one!!

 

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Razor: 1963 Gillette Slim Adjustable
Blade: Astra Superior Platinum
Brush: Vulfix 2234 Super
Cream: Cyril Salter Sublime Citrus
A/S: Thayer's Lemon Witch Hazel, Taylor's No. 74 Victorian Lime

I decided to take the '63 Slim for a Saturday spin, and the old razor still has what it takes. The shave was very comfortable and smooth, attaining the DFS+ level. A Slim was my second new razor (the first was a Superspeed) when I was just starting out in the mid to late 1950's. The blades then were not that good, plus I didn't know what I was doing, so a "good shave" then would be considered somewhat crappy now. My aftershave of choice then was Seaforth Spice (#2 was Seaforth Heather). OK, I was a teenager in a small town and didn't know that D.R. Harris, Taylor, etc. even existed.

 

Hot Shower
Fromm Shavette
VDH Boar
Arko Shavestick
Witch Hazel/Corn Huskers Lotion
Jovan Musk

 

Saturday

Tabac ss
EJ89L
Lord Platinum (1)
Dridecker Special Badger
Dickenson Witch Hazel
Magic Bump Rescue Balm
Skin Bracer as splash
Canoe edt


Face lathered for the first time today to shake things up a bit. The tabac soap seems to prefer this method as the resulting lather was super slick, much improved over my normal bowl method.

 

F.A.Koch, Faultless
Omega Pro 49
Williams Mug Soap
Pinaud Clubman A/S lotion
Nivea Cooling Post Shave Balm

First Full Face Shave with Straight
and a Damn Fine one, at that.
It will only get better now,
from here on out !!!

 

:happy088 :happy088