Thread: Sun April 20th - Sat April 26th

Blade: Dovo Best Quality 6/8
Brush: The Invisible Edge Pure Badger
Suds: The Grooming Co. Shaving Soap
ASB: Nivea
ASL: The Grooming Co.



Very nice shave...
Good night gents!!

Great late shave today! New local soap and aftershave picked up from Canmore Alberta after a weekend getaway. The aftershave balm is awesome smelling like honey and sandlewood, the soap didn't give me a great lather, going to have to play with it a bit!

Happy 4:20 boys, Smoke 'em if you got 'em!!!

Edit: I should also add that even though SWMBO picked up 5 soaps, my shave soap and aftershave still cost more! Start straight razor shaving they said, it'll be cheaper they said. . .

Easter Monday

Razor | Jernbolaget frameback with leather scales | Soap | Mme Scodioli Step Right Up | After Shave | Mme Scodioli Step Right up with Myrosol Aqua de Limón over the top | Other | Morgan’s pomade (for the scent)

First shave in four days as I've been laid low by a bout of cholera. Cindy says it's not cholera but she's not a doctor. The Wolf Blass unwooded chardonnay does seem to be helping a little, but it's still touch and go, hence Beethoven was the music chosen with which to shave.

This Swedish frameback is certainly an ugly duckling, with its compressed leather scales and time worn steel, but the edge on it is amazing. I didn't really need a second pass but relented to the want.

The Madame Scodioli Step Right Up soap and after shave and Myrosol Aqua de Limón over the top is becoming my favorite combination for my bedroom shaves, this being one of those.

Shaving at a shaving stand with an old fashioned wash set (bowl, jug, soap dish) is so nice, and when one empties the bowl on the front stone steps one feels so European!

21 april 2014

razor: MASTRO LIVI 8/8 SQUARE POINT CAMILLO SILVANO'S SANMAI
soap: VALOBRA COLOGNE
brush: SIMPSON BERKELEY BEST BADGER
after shave: FLOID SUAVE
MASTRO LIVI'S STROP

Razor : Tanifuji 13/16
soap : Truefitt&hill Sandalwood
Brush : Semogue OC
After :Floid Suave

21 April 2014

Oscar11 All-Amber C7 WSP ED 2 Banded Super HMW
Hart Steel Custom Bruce Gregory 6/8
Strop Shoppe Coconut Lime Verbena
Captain's Choice Lime

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Shaving at a shaving stand with an old fashioned wash set (bowl, jug, soap dish) is so nice, and when one empties the bowl on the front stone steps one feels so European!

Sounds great Carl and very old school and all! But you do know who inveted the whole plumming system thingy - the guys from Europe, just saying.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

with leather scales

Has anyone made custom leather razor scales? I can't imagine what a new set would look like...probably very nice!

Originally Posted by Mikael

Sounds great Carl and very old school and all! But you do know who inveted the whole plumming system thingy - the guys from Europe, just saying.

Yeah, Romans wasn't it? Or even before...

Originally Posted by Damo

Has anyone made custom leather razor scales? I can't imagine what a new set would look like...probably very nice!

Does sound like a nice idea, I was amazed when someone from here told me what these were made of. I imagine they're rather rare, which is why I won't replace them. They're quite firm and hard; here's a bunch of pics...

I think the wedge is pewter or lead. This razor was from Mikael, who might know more about it...