Thread: May 6, 2007 - May 12, 2007

Rooney Style 1 small finest
MB Aged Spice soap
TM RL strop
5/8 Revisor
Royall Bay Rhum
Dominica Lime cologne


Had to drop the wife at LGA early this morning, so this was a fast one pass shave. Not bad, not bad at all

Jordan

Fri:

Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold-Dachs Spezial soap
Hand American strop
5/8 Silver Beauty Full Concave (no idea who made it, but it's in a Sears&Roebucks package)
Royall Lyme A/S

Great shave.

6/8 Mitchell straight razor
Russian Leather Strop
Tweezerman Brush
Tabac soap and Tom's of Maine shaving cream

Peppermint Tobacco lather anyone?

Originally Posted by Howard Newell

6/8 Mitchell straight razor
Russian Leather Strop
Tweezerman Brush
Tabac soap and Tom's of Maine shaving cream

Peppermint Tobacco lather anyone?

Kind of like a Newport or Kool?

Jordan

Two days' growth, warm shower.

Dovo INOX 4/8
Marvy soap
Burma Shave best boar
WTG & XTG passes

Not a great shave today, but an informative one. The 4/8 is a little harder to control than a larger razor, but I started getting the hang of it. Keeping the blade as flat as possible to my skin helped. So did taking tiny, precise strokes.

I also realized a deficiency in my lather-building! I left my brush really wet, used extra elbow grease working up the lather, and was rewarded with half a mugful of foam. I guess it was the user, not the hard water, nor the subpar soap that was keeping me from building a lather with Marvy.

15/16 Dorko
TM Strop
Tabac Soap
the Shaving Shack pure badger brush
alum block
Lucky Tiger Alpine AS

-Fred

Sat:

Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold-Dachs Spezial soap
Hand American strop
5/8 Koeller spike
7/8 Henckels Friodur round tip
Royall Spyce A/S

good shave.

DAY OFF

Simpson PJ 3 in Super Soakin in the Monster Scuttle
Dr. Harris Arlington Pre-shave
Dr. Harris Arlington Soap
Mr. Chandler's Beautiful 7/8 - Not only Gorgeous but Performs
3 Passes
WWR
CWS
Thayers Lavender Toner
Lucky Tiger 3 Roses Hair Tonic
Dr. Harris Arlington AS Milk
Finished with Czech & Speake No 88 Cologne
Awesome

Taylor of Old Bond Street Lavender soap (top shelf soap)
Shavemac brush
Dovo 5/8 Imitation Tortoise. Gorgeous, well-performing blade
WTG....XTG
Alum block (gave it a try for the first time)
Pinaud AS (stuff smells so good I want to drink it)
Witch Hazel lotion.

Smooth, enjoyable shave. Off to class. (Think my students will notice my new BBS face?)

Hot shower


7/8 W&B - Vlad edition
Cavendish Black shaving cream
Silvertip Badger brush




Absolutly a BBS shave really nice.