Thread: March 11, 2007 - March 17, 2007

Sun:

Rooney small style 1
Williams Mug Soap
Hand American strop
5/8 Koeller square tip
Old Spice A/S

Great shave.

Do not know if this counts or blaspheme but here it is.
Got my STR8 back from Lynn so restarted the learning Curve half STR8 Half DE

Em's Pre Shave Oil
Simpson Polo 10 in Super
Castle Forbes Lime Oil Cream
DOVO Bergischer Lowe - On Cheeks and middle of neck the easy parts
Gillette 1941 Old Style Silver Aristocrat - IP Shave 3 RIP
3 Passes
WWR
CWS
QED Alum Stick
Em's Minty WH
Caste Forbes Lime Oil ASB
Pashana Original Hair Tonic
Finish with Penhaligon's Opus 1870

No Burn or Cuts from the STR8

Hot Shower


Proraso Pre
C&E Sandalwood Soap / T&H Sandalwood cream
B&B Finest Horn
6/8 Dorko Workedback
Alum
Thayers WH
Floris Santal asb
Floris Santal edt
SCS Sandalwood edt




Great shave in 3 passes, need to hit the pasted strop for a few passes though. The SCS Sandalwood and Floris Santal layer well together.

5 days' growth

No prep (this is becoming a habit )
B&B Finest Ebony (such a photo whore, decided the black would look better)
Vintage Clydesdale Shell strop
H&J Special
Trumper's Violet soap
Trumper's alum
Trupmer's LSF

This razor was purchased to be a no-frills (etchings, etc.) but a bit unique daily user.

Bought it shave-ready but it needed some fine-tuning. 30 very light laps on Coticule + 60 CrO2, 30 linen, 60 leather - very nice 10/10 performance. Too bad I was expecting 10+/10. Will hit the hone again - hopefully I can get it there. Otherwise it will just be a great shaver, just not as great as my current Top 3.

The strop is very nice, I seem to prefer it to the DD Russian

Very good shave

Cheers
Ivo

hot shower - 2 days growth
face scrub Zirh


15/16 Dorko
Colleens Cavendish Black shaving cream
silvertip badger brush





Great shave.....

Hot Towel
C & E Best Badger
QED Lime Shaving Soap
TM Strop
5/8 Wald
Paraso Aftershave Balm

I heard of these razors, tuned it up, nice shaver.

Bartman 7/8
B&B finest
Honeybee sandalwood
Alum
Musgo Real AS splash
C&E Sandalwood ASB

I touched this razor up on an Austria "Apart" hone and got a great shave.

While some people have complained about the Bartman razors being prone to microchipping, I've not had this problem (however, the finish on the jimps is pretty lousy). I got a great shave from this baby and the shaves keep getting better.

Simpson Polo 10
Dr. Harris Arlington Pre-Shave
Dr. Harris Arlington Soap
Dubl Duck WonderBlade
1930's Gold British Barber Pole Aristocrat - IP Shave 1
WWR
CWS
QED Alum Stick
Em's Minty WH
Dr. Harris Arlington AS Milk
Lucky Tiger 3 Roses Hair Tonic
Finished with Penhaligon's Endymion
Still working the Straight and DE. Beautiful Shave I normally do not do pictures this was so beautiful both in quality of shave and the looks of the tools.

Like the Polo and the razor's not too shabby either

Cheers
Ivo

Originally Posted by izlat

Like the Polo and the razor's not too shabby either

Cheers
Ivo

Thanks They are both wonderful shavers, Well and the brush is my Favorite