What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

Ern Crown & Sword 929
Polar Metalworks 24mm Silvertip
CRSW Jardin D’Orange
Fine L’Orange Noir to finish

Enjoy your shave!
Tom

 

Mastro Livi Gifretto

 

King Pelican 14 and a big lump of Castle Forbes Lime cream lathered with a huge Simpsons 59. Lather galore! A splash of Lucky Tiger finished it off.

Cheers, Steve

 

Winchester

 

Working at the Office today

Got me to thinking "Lime" for Summer sooooooo

"Das Dovo" Fritz Bracht era #25
T&H Luxury Shave Soap
Re-Knotted Old Spice brush 24mm Silver Tip
10/40 SRD #1 Strop

Single WTG pass, Clear water Touch Up on the beard lines and done...

I have been using the T&H Shave Oil as a Hair Tonic instead of Argan Oil for a few weeks and really like it

Splash of Royall Lime A/S after an Ice Cold Rinse

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh




Shave On !!!!

 

Iwasaki

 

Fantastic shave, from one of my favorite brands. I had a super smooth 2 pass shave, that left me BBS. No issues, and a joy to use.

Razor- Wade & Butcher "Bow Razor"
Brush- B400 By Tom. WD Boar Knot. 2 hairs shed.
Soap- Arko/Avon Spicy scented
Aftershave- Vintage Avon Spicy. Avon Spicy Side Wheeler Decanter.

 

Nice razors today gentlemen!

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I did lime today too, Castle Forbes lime cream. Thanks for the tip about the T&H shave oil as hair tonic. I've used argan oil for sometime too and will have to give the T&H oil a try.

Cheers, Steve

 

Nice setup! One pass with the grain? Cool! I had that today, but I felt I needed to at least do a second pass or I’d be cheating!

 

Today's Shave
Koraat 8/8th Custom 1/4 Hollow
Poraso Azur Lime Creme
Sandlewood Pre Shave
Pinald Clubman Aftershave
Jayaruh #300 Silvertip Badger

Fantastic shave first shave , Ulrik delivered again on this razor and also my first time using #300, Jim came through again@


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Well done Steve, everything seems just write with those tools.

Ulrik is the man! That is one cool razor.

 

Going big, M. Martinez 8+/8 smiling near wedge.

 

I have to quote this... high quality all around!
Went with the F. Herder 45 tonight. Love the edge on this razor.
Refurbished and reknotted this brush and it was nice first outing.
Stirling SDM for the suds and Razorock Irish Countryside for the smell.
Great evening!

Enjoy your shave!
Tom

 

Saturday Straights' Shave


Proraso Pre Shave
Colgate Shaving Mug Soap
Semogue SOC
Henry Taylor 5/8
CWR
Thayers Peach WH
Florida Water

I started off with Proraso Pre Shave. The Colgate Shaving Mug Soap face-lathered well with the Semogue SOC brush. I did two passes with the Henry Taylor 5/8 straight and ended up with a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayer's Peach WH and then Florida Water. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

I’ve had two great back to back shaves with my straight razors.

Yesterday’s shave was with my Charles Adam. It was so good, I could have stopped after one pass. However, I went with two passes and ended up BBS.


Today’s shave was with my Kiebitz. Two passes later and I’m BBS!

 

Jnat throwdown shave today, using two Gold Dollar test razors. 208-5 was honed on the ugly asagi, 208-7 was honed on the pretty asagi (see yesterday's honing post). For a test and especially when the difference is likely to be small, I wanted a super slick soap and for me that means either Santa Mariah Novella or I Coloniali Mango Oil soap. The Mango was up, brush was a Simpsons Tulip 2. Harris Pink AS conplimented the IC Mango.

The result? The ugly asagi wins by a small margin! I could notice that the edge was smoother on certain parts of my face WTG, but surprisingly, a much smaller difference ATG. Now if I were going to make a final judgement I'd use both razors several times, and I'd also reverse the razors on the stones just in case Master Shifu wasn't quite consistent making the test razors. Inconsistency in Gold Dollars, imagine that...

Anyway, it was fun for the few minutes invested.

Cheers, Steve

 

Getting ready to go to a wedding this evening. Used the French Starter Lux 777, synthetic brush, and C O Bigelow shaving cream, to get BBS.
Finished up with a splash of Masters Bay Rum AS.



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Iwasaki 6/8th
Poraso Azur Lime Creme
Taconic Pre and Aftershave
Generic Boar Brush

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Riga Razor 7/8