What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

Filly 14 Muleta, soap and AS was Floris 89. Lovely shave.

 

Nice!

 

Thank you Claude!

 

Another lovely Filly!

 

An 8 or 9 day old beard wiped off tonight. My chin is healed and now my face is smooth, smooth, smooth

Hot water preparation
AOS Argan Oil PSO
Romera Wengue Chubby Manchurian Badger
Castle Forbes Lavender Shaving Cream
RigaRazor 8/8
Castle Forbes Lavender After Shave Balm



Happy shaving - Karl

 

Thursday Morning, CVH No. 7.


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Dahlgren & Co
Suds: PAA Doppelgänger Grey
Splash: Fine Platinum

Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

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14 is the perfect number of straight razor wetshaving ...

 

Nice razor Tom! Another manufacturer from Eskilstuna, there was a bunch of them that made razors. Some 200 different knife manufacturers... not all made razors, but many of them.


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Thank you Karl!

 

7/8 CVH No 140 (black horn), soap was MdC agrumes followed by a little SMN orange blossom water. A nice reminder that spring is coming .... sometime..

 

That blade looks like it can clean the whiskers off a mountain man!

 

SOTD THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Today is my birthday and this morning’s shave is dedicated to my lovely second wife, Lauren, whose birthday was yesterday. Lauren and I lost our respective first spouses to cancer during November and December of 2012. Lauren had been married for 28 yrs and I’d been married for 42 years. We will be married for five years this June. In her honor I selected two incredible shaving tools. My very early Cast Steel H. Boker French Point and my refurbished Schick F Type injector were the perfect razors for my mug and dome shaves respectively. I do love the way this old Boker feels in hand, and after two pasted and one leather stropping easily swept away my mug whiskers in three, easy passes with the Traveling Wilburys “Handle with Care” playing in the background.

The huge MrEE Monster Aluminum Handled Tuxedo Synth is a lathering beast that easily generated the thin, slick facial lather that the old Boker glided through on its three pass whisker obliteration mission. The following bowl lathering exercise could have kept three barbers supplied, but resulted in the overly generous, thick, protective lather carpet I prefer for my dome shaves. The old F Type used for the dome shave accompanied my neighbor’s Marine Officer father through the Pacific. It saved his life on Bougainville where it along with the rest of his mess kit was severely damaged blocking shrapnel from a Japanese grenade. It was restored for me by the very able Tom White (@twhite) and now delivers an excellent shave again. I'm grateful to be a cancer survivor pushing three quarters of a century. The Krampert’s Frostbite AS Splash was the perfect ending, leaving me feeling cool, clean, and velveteen smooth on this beautiful, cold, sunny Philadelphia day! I wish the Lord’s Grace and health to all my shave brothers and sisters!

RAZOR: H. Boker Cast Steel French Point (Mug), Schick F Type
BLADE: Schick Proline B-20 Injector
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: MrEE Aluminum Handle Monster Tuxedo Synth
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse with Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Krampert’s Frostbite AS Splash.

 

Happy Birthday Jeff!

 

Much appreciated. I don’t see many Dahlgrens and this one lived up to the high expectations for a Swedish blade.

 

I would consider you a lucky man. Happy birthday to you and your lovely wife.
Nice shaving kit as well.

 

Happy Birthday Jeff, what a wonderful post - thank you for sharing!

 

Happy birthday Jeff and good wishes for many more

 

CV Heljestrand Le Duc MK 44
Parker Badger Hair Brush
Taylor of Old Bond Street Traditional Shaving Soap

My first shave with the CVH Le Duc. She has a heavier blade so I thought a 2 day growth would be an easy test for her. She shaved well. Not as good as the 6/8 Tranchant Beajeu Aine or the 6/8 DD.
Perhaps a fifty laps on the linen and another hundred on the leather will help with a closer shave.
I felt like smelling good today so, my favorite cologne, Creed Green Irish Tweed.