SoS: October 2, 2017 - October 8, 2017

Irisch Moos Shave Stick
Wolf Whiskers Brush
Air-Mail Razor
Thayers WH
Pitrulon Classic After Shave
Have a great week!

 

OCtober 2nd SOTD
Gillette Old Type w Nacet
TGN Finest Fan
Barrister's Reserve Cool SS
Thayers
Booster Polar Ice AS

 

OCtober 2, 2017

Doug Korn Prototype with TGN Finest
Route 66 Sweeney Todd
Wolfman Ti WR1-OC with Darwin Ti
Gillette Silver Blue
Fine L'Orange Noir
Terre D'Hermes

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Monday

Prep: Warm Shower-Stirling Bath Soap-Arkadia
Soap: Reef Point Peerless
Razor: Gillette NEW Short Comb
Blade: Vintage Schick Plus Platinum (Shave #3)
Brush: Honey Farm Designs/TGN Premium Silvertip-24mmx50mm
Aftershave: Country Club Sweet Water

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard)

Reef Point Peerless today. 20 seconds to load the Honey Farm/TGN Silvertip brush. Easy, thick, slick, lather. Vintage Schick Plus Platinum in the Gillette NEW SC. Excellent smooth, close shave. I finished with Country Club Sweet Water aftershave.

Bob

 

My first OCtober SOTD today and it was another great shave.



Razor: Gillette Rubie NEW OC
Brush: Epsilon with a White Horse hair knot
Soap & AS Balm: Handmade Soap Co.
Pre-Shave Oil: Bedfordshire Beard Co. Mango


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Iwasaki
Synthetic Brush
Edwin Jagger Sea Buckthorn Shaving Cream
Vitos Pre/Post Shave Cream

 

Shake Sharp v1.0 / Tian Li . I've come close with other razors but this was my first one-pass (ATG) head shave. Pretty pretty pretty pretty good.

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Monday. 10/2/17

Razor: Personna Flex Head
Lather: Proraso Green
Pre Shave: Homemade
Brush: VDH
Blade: Gillette TwinJector (8)
AS: Brut Splash On with Afta

With 8 days in a row, I`m still not bored, but then again, I`m getting great shaves.... so! With a 2 pass shave, WTG/ATG, almost no clean up, I am BBS for sure.Both passes were next to perfect with 1 little boo boo, which I think is a "razor bump" always in the same spot and doesn`t bleed. A cold water rinse takes care of it. Happy camper here hoping for good shaves by all. Gog Bless and happy shaving.

Bill



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Weber DLC razor
TianLi Super Stainless blade
TSD Iced Lemon Grass SS
WD Synthetic brush
Osage Rub/Witch Hazel w/aloe
TSD 2X Mentholated Lemon Grass A/S

First of all, pray for those in Las Vegas. Terrible situation. Then, let me thank jmudrick for pif'ing me some TianLi blades. I've been curious about theses blades since reading of his results with them. My results were not so good today. The end result was actually not bad, got a smooth clean face which is good. The journey there was not so good though. The blade felt very rough and got me a couple of times. Maybe it's just this particular blade since we know there can be clinkers in every batch. So I'll change blades tomorrow and try again. Now go enjoy your day folks.

 

SOTD
Monday, October 2
Still no pictures yet.

Proraso Cream (Vintage Williams used up)
Simpson CH2 Synthetic
Feather AS-D2
Gillette Spoiler (No idea how many shaves, but I haven't changed it since packing up my gear for the move, unreal. Best blade I have EVER used)
Thayer's Medicated Witch Hazel
Nivea Sensitive Cooling ASB
Have a great day!

 

Here's my planned shave for Tuesday morning:

Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap
Razorock Plissoft 26mm Monster
Super Speed/Astra day 2
Stirling Glacial Eskimo Tuxedo SS
Diana Menthol Balm
Krampert's Frostbite AS Splash

There's a whole lotta menthol freeze in this setup!

 

SOTN OCtober 1st


Cooper MonoBilt
Tian Li Super Blue Blade (1)
30DCLE
Razorock XXX
Skin Bracer in vintage Avon Knight decanter

 

Schick G8 Razor
Personna Injector Blade
Made Rite #15 Boar Brush
Love My Skin Spearmint Soap
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Lucky Tiger Aspen After Shave

Used my G8 for the first time, and as with all my other Schick G's, it was a wonderful shave. Only thing different is the grip, which is very similar to my Schick I's. Although a tad smaller, it contributed to a very good grip, even when wet. A very comfortable and smooth BBS shave.

 

Shave of the Day: 2.October.2017

Razor: Feather Artist Club DX with wooden handle
Blade: Feather ProGuard
Brush: Frank's black badger
Mug by Jim Sandefur of 'Off Center Clay Pottery' (Etsy)
Pre-shave: Proraso Green
Shave Soap: Vetiver by WSP, Rustic series
After Shave: Thayer's Cucumber witch hazel, then Brut Classic Splash
Balm: Proraso Wood & Spice

This was my very first "straight razor" shave. Two passes: WTG, ATG and a couple of small touchups; one small nick, needed no styptic.
(Next purchase: full fledged straight razor, strop and paste).

 

Razor - Maggard Razors MR17 with Standard Head
Blade - Gillette Nacet Stainless
Brush - Stirling 24mm Boar
Soap - Stirling Sharp Dressed Man
Lotion - Stirling Sharp Dressed Man
Aftershave - Fine Platinum

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Tuesday's OC Shave


Proraso Pre Shave
Mitchell's Wool Fat
Jayaruh #224
Gillette Double Ring (1905)
Gillette Silver Blue
CWR
Thayer's Lemon WH
Pinaud Clubman

I started off with Proraso Pre Shave. The Mitchell's Wool Fat face-lathered well with the Jayaruh #224 synthetic brush. I did the two passes with the Gillette Double Ring and Gillette Silver Blue blade and ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayer's Lemon WH and then Pinaud Clubman AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Date: 03 October 2017

Pre: - Cold Water straight from the tap
Brush: - Yaqi Tuxedo Synth. 26/62mm knot
Lather: - Wholly Kaw - King of Oud (tallow) Donkey Milk 5x
Razor: - Muhle R41 v2013 with the iKon Bulldog Handle
Blade: - Gillette Nacet #5
Post: - Lucky Tiger Aftershave & Face Tonic / Bulldog Sensitive Moisturiser
Fragrance: - L'eau D'issey Pour Homme EDT

 

Razor: Timeless OC w/ Dimpled Handle
Blade: Gillette Platinum (2)
Brush: WDC 8 w/ Cashmere
Soap: Oleo Timeless Razor
A/S: Floid Blue

 

SOTD 10.2.2017

Pre-shave: hot shower
Brush: VDH Boar
Soap: CO Bigelow
Razors: Merkur 1904 OC (loaded with a new German made Wilkinson-Sword blade)
"Pacific" TTO razor (loaded with a new "Pacific" DE blade)
Post-shave: Dickinson WH, Nivea Sensitive Cooling Balm, Skin Bracer

This was my first shave since Friday and I was looking forward to it as well because I used SE razors all last month. I found I missed the DE razors. While I want to participate in the OC focus in October, I'm not going to use them every day. There are several razors I want to use this month and they're not all OC. For years, I promised my wife that I would grow a beard after I retired. Although the rules for facial hair at my place of work had relaxed over the last few years, I was still "old-school" and made sure I was clean shaven except for my mustache. When I retired this summer she reminded me of that promise for a beard and I convinced her to wait until no-shave November. Summer time was too hot for a beard in July.

Anyway, I was torn between this morning between using an OC razor or trying out the inexpensive $1 DE TTO razor and blades from Dollar Tree reported by @gzp last week in the following thread: http://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/dollar-tree-1-safety-razor.57499/

So I decided to compromise. I planned on both a face shave and a head shave today and elected to try the "Pacific" razor on my face, and use the Merkur for my head shave. I lathered up the CO Bigelow into a creamy, protective lather and began the shave. I was very careful because I noticed the blade gap was more than in other TTO razors I have. I also had 72 hours of stubble to plow through. I did find a safe angle for the shave but it was uncomfortable and rough feeling. I shaved both cheeks and then removed the Wilkinson blade from the Merkur and replaced the Pacific blade in the cheap razor. The cutting through the stubble was easier but it was still an uncomfortable shave as I went over the neck to finish up the first pass. So I replaced the Wilkinson blade in the Merkur, set the cheap razor aside, and finished the face shave with the Merkur OC. What a difference.... extremely smooth and comfortable and a CCS. I then moved on to do a head shave with the Merkur again an excellent result.

In fairness, the cheap Pacific razor did give me a DFS in that it was close. But my face was burning after that first pass with it. So much so, I had to switch to the Merkur.

Happy shaves, everyone!

 

Summer here in Montreal was lousy for the most part. Hot and humid at times but with a lot of rain.