What are you waiting on to arrive...?

It's gorgeous, the case is fantastic it has a very personalized feel to it for that razor let's you know care was taken. More often than not these days things are just flung into a box and thrown on a shelf. Post your impressions when received and put to use I'm interested.

 

Ordered two inexpensive shaving creams from a UK vendor via the jungle online. Never used these but reviews seem favorable.
*Palmolive For Men Classic Palm Extract Shave Cream 100ml
*Ingram shaving cream lather 100mls

 

Fantastic! Keep us posted on results.

 

Is it just my imagination, the angle or what? Or is that long handle extraordinarily long?

 

Palmolive is one of the best "bang for the buck" shaving creams in Germany for sure - and it's the one I started my DE shaving career with. Available in every supermarket here in germany, usually for about 80 or 90 cents. The Speick men cream is top on my list - better performer, but costs at least 3 times as much.

 

Speick is my next trial cream. Not the easiest one to find here at a brick & mortar. If all else fails I will order online.

 

Probably the lack of referents for scale. I still look at bare pictures of razors and think they look huge.

 

If you have trouble finding Speick just PM me. I might be able to help

 

My first razor it is a Merkur 34c "Heavy Classic"
a sample pack of 100 blades
Blades Grim "Smolder" shaving soap
Satin tip the purest black synthetic hair luxury brush
Arko in a bowl
some tabac in a bowl

The man in the brown van should be dropping it off tomorrow

 

Your set with a bunch of goodies! +1 for the arko it's cheap but boy talk about boat loads of great lather and soft but pleasant smell to boot. Enjoy

 

that is what I have read here on the forum so I figured I should try it out and it is pretty cheap so if I decided that I don't like it its not to big of a deal

 

You made a great choice at it's price point it will be a mainstay for me and plenty of different scents to choose from.

 

Great first set you bought there. And with 100 blades to sample you'll be busy testing for quite a while

 

I definitely wanted to try different blades and I know with any disposable product there is the possibility of a poor performer so I figured a few of each brand would be able to give me the best test results
and with getting a couple of soaps I figured it couldn't hurt

 

You've made some great choices my friend it should be smooth sailing from here on.

 

Inbound from Bullgoose Shaving:

I am a BIG fan of SV products so know I will like this one. Phil states this one is slicker and aimed for straight razors so we will see. And I am a big fan of Taconic shave creams. One of the best bay rums I have tried, have only tried a sample of the Eucalyptus Mint which is not aimed for the super cold but a mild effect and more mint than Eucalyptus if I remember right and have read great things about the aftershave so thought I would give it a try.

• 2 x Saponificio Varesino Tundra Artica Shaving Soap (Beta 4.1)
• 1 x Saponificio Varesino Tundra Artica Aftershave (100ml)

• 1 x Taconic Bay Rum Shave Cream

• 1 x Taconic Unscented Soothing Aftershave Balm (Alcohol Free)

• 1x Taconic Eucalyptus Mint Shave Cream

 

Nice! I expect a full report...lol

 

Waiting on a Wilkinson Flip-Top

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