Mon:
Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold-Dachs Spezial soap
Hand American strop
Bergischer Lowe
Royall Spyce A/S
Great shave in one pass. Ya stop when there's nothing left to cut.
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Mon:
Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold-Dachs Spezial soap
Hand American strop
Bergischer Lowe
Royall Spyce A/S
Great shave in one pass. Ya stop when there's nothing left to cut.
Mon
Vulfix BB
TM Strop
Floris JF Soap
7/8 Wostenholm
Old Spice
Perhaps my best shave ever. BBS and zero irritation . Sweet! :y
Jordan
I expect a couple of great shavers to land in the next few days so am currently growing whiskers :)
Cheers
Ivo
Monday:
Williams Shave Soap
Burma-Shave Boar Brush
Wapeinica Razor
Tribute For Men After-Shave Balm (by Mary Kay)
(I'm a newb, so I just shaved my cheeks with the straight and finished up with the Mach3)
Is that one of the Olsen twins? You muct be young :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SailorSam
Cheers
Ivo
hot shower
4/8 femarud
Mama bears toasted coconut shaving cream
silvertip badger brush
very nice shave...
Finally a Day off and a Shave at HOME!!!
Rooney Style 3 Size 3 in Super Silver Soaking in the Moss Hot tub!
Hot Shower - Em's Woodstock Shampoo and QED Lucky Sloop
Dr Harris Pre-Shave Lotion
Salter Vetiver SC
TI Limited Edition 7/8 Flat Back
20/30 on Heirloom #1 Horsehide
3 Passes
WWR
CWS
QED Alum
Thayers Rose Toner
Pashana Original Hair Tonic
Code Blue AS Gel
Finished with Floris Vetiver
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God it is good to be Home BBShttp://badgerandblade.com/vb/images/...ys/001_tt1.gif
2 days' stubble
Matt ivory super silvertip brush
Trumper's violet soap
Vintage Clydesdale shell strop
Old Sheffield rp
Trumper's alum
Trumper's CSF
Nice razors but argh - got a couple of red spots on right neck side and felt the alum, and I even didn't get a very smooth face. I hate this :rant:
Yeah, they disappear in 20 min but still. I *think* that it was because of angles and blade shape - some of my angles / approaches didn't work as with other razors...
Could also be the soap. This Trumper's violet cake just doesn't perform as well as say Tabac or Honeybee.
Cheers
Ivo
Hot shower
face scrub
15/16 Dorko
classic shaving lime & coconut soap
shaving scuttle
silvertip badger brush
Nice lather + very nice shave = :)
Hot Shower
5/8 Case Barber's Notch
Tony Miller strop
Vulfix 374 silvertip
Trumper's Rose soap
Michelsen's Bay Rum
Terry
Shavemac Silver tip 30mm Tall soaking in the Schwarzweisskeramik Scuttle
Hot Shower QED Lucky Sloop Soap and MB Rosemary Mint Shampoo
Dr. Harris Arlington Pre-Shave
Dr. Harris Almond SC
Dubl Duck 5/8 Satinedge
3 Passes
WWR
CWS
QED Alum Stick
Lucky Tiger Organic Face Tonic
Lucky Tiger 3 Roses Hair Tonic
Dr Harris Arlington AS Milk
Finished with Czech & Speake No 88 Cologne
Great Shavehttp://badgerandblade.com/vb/images/...ys/thumbup.gif Lynn said be careful with this one it is sharp, it was like cutting butter with a hot knife not a sound the whiskers were just gone.
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Wed:
Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold-Dachs Spezial soap
Hand American strop
Bergischer Lowe
Been playing with hones, and this time I struck out. Ok shave, but this razor needs to go back to the 8k Shapton and work its way back up.
Any lessons learned / tips from this, Michael?Quote:
Originally Posted by mparker762
I am in whisker growing mode so just lathered a few soaps last night. Seems Trumper's Violet doesn't work as well as others. I got it from some unknown online vendor, and am thinking it might be stale? It is the only soap that doesn't really show signs of having been used - compared to Tabac, L'Occitane, C&E Nomad, etc - everything else I have... Maybe I must try hotter on it before lathering to enhance loading
Finished off with L'Occitane CADE soap and ASB - nice
Cheers
Ivo
Hot Shower
5/8 Wilbert Autocrat RP
Tony Miller strop
Vulfix 374 silvertip
TGQ Oak & Moss soap
Old Spice
Terry
Yes. I'm not very good with the belgian yellow; and next time I want to play with a new hone don't do it on a razor in the rotation. It just wasn't terribly sharp yesterday after honing it on the coticule, and the chrome oxide I used didn't really improve it much today. So it wasn't sharp enough for a really good shave, but not dull enough to put down for another. So I got a decent shave but that's it. Before I headed out this morning I honed it on the Shaptons and chrome oxide and it looks back to its old self again. I'm not terribly impressed with the coticule, but I've only used it a few times whereas I've been using the Shaptons for many months and I've gotten used to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by izlat
Thu:
Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold-Dachs Spezial soap
Hand American strop
6/8 Heljestrand #32
Pinaud Clubman A/S
This used to be my favorite razor, but I hadn't honed it since last August and it had gradually been pushed out of my rotation by newer, sharper razors. I decided to update the edge to my current standards last night, and this morning got a impressive reminder of why it had been such a favorite. Yowza sharp and handles like a sports car :tu
Hot shower
face scrub
4/8 Femarud
C&E Sandalwood shaving cream
silvertip badger brush
Nice smooth shave
I rehoned my worldmaster after about 2-3 months of use......and MAN did it shave nice after that. First time ever that I got a smooth shave AND no burn from an alcohol containing aftershave. So here's what I used:
Proraso pre
Homemade silvertip
RJ Outram strop
Colleen's Orange Patchouli cream
Worldmaster 6/8 Sheffield with cocobolo scales
Hot water, Cold water
FA aftershave/aftershave balm.
Like I said...amazing.
Neutrogena conditioner
Shavemac 501
Tabac soap
Tornblum 9/16 frameback
Alum
Pinaud clubman A/S
I'll probably jinx myself by saying this, but I don't think I've ever had a single nick or weeper when using the Tabac shave soap.
Brilliant shave today, loved it..
Hot shower & conditioner on 3 days growth for 5 mins or so
Rinse, Trumpers Sandalwood & EJagger BB brush
Proraso pre cream
TM red latigo strop
Lewis 5/8" roundpoint, one down, 2 against the grain
Rinse
Thayers Lemon and Aloe witch hazel
Proraso a/s balm
Paco Rabanne a/s
Perfect. The only thing I am wanting for right now are a couple more tubes of shaving cream (I ran out of Trumpers Limes) ..
... and that pasted strop from Tony, er, and a few more razors (a 1/2 and full hollow) , a hone or two, a few of Coleens soaps, some YSL M7 EDT ......
:hmmm:
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 :tu
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?
Kind of like a Newport or Kool? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Howard Newell
Jordan
Two days' growth, warm shower.
Dovo INOX 4/8
Marvy soap
Burma Shave best boar :D
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. :o
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.
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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
Awesomehttp://badgerandblade.com/vb/images/...ys/001_tt1.gif
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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.