My shave of the day, errr how I shave since I started:
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We got the cheap illinios strop. I almost hit my mark to buy a better strop, Had it all picked out, the payday morning shave and I put a nick in the strop. That reset my 2 month of no nicks and buy a nice strop counter. I still got a few weeks to go, fingers crossed!
Next we have the Van Der Haagen Luxury shave set. I splurged a bit for the balding badger brush. Though true to the amazon reviews, they took care of my brush that just kept getting worse and worse and still shed like crazy after a couple months (20+ hairs each use), by sending me one that still looses a hair or two each use after a couple months. Their handy dandy apothecary mug. Their soap from the luxury set. I have tried some Williams soap (reminds me of a hard day at the chemical factory) and some colonel conk bay rum (which either I failed to lather good, or it just dont feel too good on the face).
Lastly the subject of this convo, the Dovo Prima 5/8" full hollow. I am on the fence if its better than my first honing. Hair came off effortlessly and no ill feeling. No pulling or fighting. All that should be taken with a huge grain of salt, I could possibly dry shave in a bowl of broken glass and neither feel it or get burned by it, or wet shave with one of them volcano rocks until baby butt smooth. Either way, I can never be a honemeister because my face would not accomodate a proper shave test. Shave me fine, send it off to someone more sensitive and they look like wind up spending a week looking like ground beef.
Allright, I know something is missing. I completely forgot to do a post dry CH12K inspection. I am really curious about what it does on the edge level. The good news, I didn't destroy my mostly complete edge on the plastic guard of the microscope! It has been fun and I shall try and do another dry touch up and follow up with an inspection report.