Williams Week Sep. 19-25, 2011

Yeah, but it might br fun to stick with one the whole week, something I never do.

 

That may be the best soap available. It's probably a roll of pucks that were meant for barbers, the holy grail of vintage Williams seekers. If you're not interested in it could you maybe tell where it's at so that somebody could get it. If it's anywhere around me I'd be all over it.

 

Now that I have the ZipLock XS bowls as soap containers (Thanks Tom!) I can open another puck of Williams and keep it around. I'll play with Williams and Van Der Williams this week.

I've never had any problem lathering Williams, our soft water helps I suppose. For those with hard water, you might want to buy a gallon of distilled water. I understand it helps. BTW, not bottled drinking water, it might be harder than your drinking water.

This is a great opportunity for folks to hone their lather skills. It's a tempermental soap, and lathering it isn't formulaic, you need to finesse it. Yeah, finesse... more product! I actually mean finesse in building the lather and proper hydration. If it can sit on your skin for 8-10 minutes w/o disappearing it's right.

 

i'm going to try and connect with the shop owner about these soaps. it is, in fact, a roll of pucks. with that said i might be able to make a deal with the owner. but, i'm not a "p.i" and locating the shop will be a daunting task. wish me luck

 

SWMBO found me an 8 puck pack of Vintage Williams Tonsorial Soap last week. It really does lather easier than the modern stuff, and the scent is growing on me. I'm in. I've also got a puck of an old "mentholated" Williams. I detect absolutely no hint of menthol-big bummer. I think this soap is from the 70's or 80's-Tallow is not listed as the first ingredient and it doesn't lather as well as the Tonsorial.

 

Yes. I think of Williams as a marvelous utility soap. Paint it on, shave it off, rinse, move on. Badda-bing, badda-boom. Get in, get out. A five minute shave.

Unlike those days when I might like to devote a full hour to my shave, with the hot towels, the facial massage, the "Snorkleberry Scented Philippe-de-Frou-Frou Quintuple-Milled Shaving Puck", whipped to an orgasmic frenzy in my personally crafted sandstone scuttle, then delicately dabbed on with my half badger, half ferret, half mink and half llama brush with the mastodon scrimshaw handle, then shaved off with my triple-chromed Uberskrappen 3.14159 razor head affixed to my custom-turned platinum handle (from vintage NASA stock), loaded with a new Vladivostok Titanium blade, (With the grain, across the grain, against the grain, then some whole-grain toast...) followed by a hot rinse, a room temperature rinse and finally an ice water rinse - witch hazel, "Kissy-Cheeks" booty balm, and lastly, some Chateau-de-Pew Eau de Toilette.... No, this will be my $8 Omega Boar Special whipping up a good mugful of Williams Wonderfulness in no more than a minute, my trusty 38C, followed by some classic Clubman Virgin Island Bay Rum splashed on with reckless abandon.

Looking forward to a week of wonderful, BBS, five-minute shaves!!

 

If I could give you two likes I would. haha

 

I just wanna know where you do your shopping!

 

Just curious, what's the thread count on the towels?

Also, where can I get some Kissy-Cheeks booty balm?

 

You know, you're right! I want to know what kind of towels to buy!

 

I want the mastadon handle!

Mastadon: the original vintage.

 

Can you imagine the size of the knot you would need?!?!

 

I'm sure Aaron has a spare I could have. That would be one nice handle though, like onyx, but ivory......great, something else to keep my eye out for now.

 

You need Narwhal Ivory handle with Unicorn bristle.

 

Or unicorn Ivory with nauga bristle!

 

So which one have you guys found to work best with Williams?

 

Huh... and here I always thought that my chupacabra fang brush stuffed with mixed abbagoochie /brownie hair was top notch.

 

Of the two, I prefer the Unicorn bristle, but my slightly more pedestrian Semogue 2000 whips it like the Ravens did to the Steelers last week.

 

Ha! I'm not a football fan really but the people at work are insulted if you only consider them fans. It has been the smack-talkin'est week......