Thread: April 8, 2007 - April 14, 2007

Mon:

Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold-Dachs Spezial soap
Hand American strop
5/8 Puma inox

VG shave

Crown & Sword 1/2 hollow 6/8
Simpson Rover pure badger
Erasmic shaving stick
Proraso Pre/Post
Mugo Real A/S

Decent shave with this razor - despite the great reviews, I find the Erasmic stick ho-hum and not as good as Arko.

TI Spartacus 5/8 spike
Vintage Latigo Strop (40)
VP Pure Badger
Mamma Bear Elements of Bamboo Soap
Adidas Sport Fever AS

Smooth and comfy 3 pass shave.

Mitchell 6/8 straight
Tabac shaving soap with Tweezerman pure badger
vintage Imperial Russian strop
Stetson Black aftershave

Proraso Pre
Shavemac 25mm Silvertip
Mitchell's WoolFat Soap / KMF Vanilla Earth cream
5/8 W&B Wedge
Alum
Thayers Lavender WH
L'Artisan VDR edt

Nice Shave, Woolfat and KMF VE cream mix was a treat

Plisson HMW 12
Lucky Tiger Shave lotion
Seal brand vintage strop (bad shape but works)
6/8 Brockton
6/8 Wilbert
Alum
Musgo Real ASB

Just one day of growth is quite unusual for me. Brockton got some more hone love but still seems 9 / 10 performer. Wilbert, on the other hand was 9+ / 10 in its debut. Certainly felt smoother. Its performance seemed on par with the last Helje I tried and the Waterville. I think some of the old-timers liked Wildert and I see why.

Musgo ASB has alcohol, which I avoid but felt nice - to my surprise. If only the scent reminded me of cut grass (as I expected when I was buying it from some reviews) it would have been truly great. Still a good scent, though

Not BBS, no cuts, no irritation - decent in my book

Cheers
Ivo

Shower
Coalface face soap
Proraso pre
Proraso cream
silvertip homemade
Outram strop
TI 7/8 Silversteel
4 passes
Hot water rinse
Proraso pre/post (felt very nice)
Cold water (like dipping your face in a bucket of icewater but I relly liked it)
FA aftershave balsam
King of shaves Moisterizer

My GOD that feels nice. Smooth as mutha

Tue:

Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold-Dachs Spezial soap
Hand American strop
5/8 Puma #69

In a bit of a rush today, so only one pass. Presentable (better than my old Braun and Norelco/Philishave), but that's about it.

Edit: It's now early afternoon and my face is as smooth (relatively speaking) as it was this morning. I guess this is the retraction phenomenon that was discussed a few days ago. I'll have to remember this...

Hot Shower

6/8 Genco spike
Tony Miller strop
Vulfix 374 silvertip
TGQ Oak & Moss soap
Old Spice


Terry

hot shower



6/8 Dorko
scuttle
classic shaving coconut & lime soap
silvertip badger brush



great shave...