Thread: Sun August 04th - Sat August 10th

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Mikael, mate. Have you been hooking in to the Spanish wine or is it just really hilly country round there? That's crooked!

It's mountain country, the banjos are playing every night :-)

+ two days stubble and I bought out the Mappin and Webb Trustworthy, absolut joy together with Jabonmans fantastic soap, New Forest brush and Myrsol AS! We've done some treaking in one of the largest park areas in the world today and yesterday (85 square km).

7 August 2013

* Weber PH + UFO U2V1 SS
* Super Iridiums
* WSP 2-band + oscar11 All-Amber
* Mystic Water Sardinian Honey
* Unrefined Shea Butter

Wednesday
Hot water prep
Blasberg razor - Sanders & Co soap - NOS Rubberset bristle brush - cold water splash - L'Oreal balm - hot towel - Verveine shower - Penhaligon's Eau de Verveine EdT

An okay shave. First test run for the NOS (50's?, 60's?) Rubberset brush. This one is really hard and it will do just fine for my harder soaps. I don't have many, but just in case. The initial stink is there of course and it's mixed with the stench of "things that one finds on an old attic".
The brush is so hard in fact that it whipped up way too much soap, making the lather too thick. This, combined with a Blasberg that is actually in need of a coticule touch-up made for a bit of a scrapy shave. The second pass with thinner lather was better, but for the first time in many months I almost re-encountered the sense of a hint of razor burn... An odd feeling. The balm soothed that down nice and quick and the shower got me nice and refreshed. Now, the eyes are on the rapidly approaching weekend.

Prep: Hot Shower
Cream: Castle Forbes Lime
Brush: Thater Fine Badger
Razor: Ralf Aust 5/8
Post: Alum, Thayer's Tonic
Balm: Trumper's Lime Skin Food

Same setup as shave on Sunday. I purchased the cream over the weekend; like it very much.

DOVO 6/8 Razor
Simpsons Commodore x3 Brush
AOS Sandalwood Shaving
Osma Bloc D'alun
CF Cedar and Sandalwood ASB



Awesome shave!

W&B fine India steel Diamond edge | Weber | La'toja | Finest Badger | Dominica Bay rum Lime

Hotel shave with a random solingen that I picked up in Arizona for 30 bucks, this thing has been a warrior, six months and all I've had to give it is a dozen passes on CrOx once. A nice shave as it always gives.

Maca Root
Custom badger
Random Solingen
Vertical ASB

Deegee wrote:
"7/8/2013 - The "Where's the frolicking lather gone?" shave."



Man I know what that's like. Too funny! Thank you for the hearty laugh!

Cheers,
Jeff

Pre-Shave - Clean & Clear face wash
Brush - Vie-Long horsehair
Soap - Arko
Mug - Rogers & Bro
Razor - 5/8 Warranted hollow

This old shaver was probably reground, but whomever did it, did it right. Very hard steel, holds a great edge, perfect smooth shave