Thread: May 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007

Wed:

Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold-Dachs Spezial soap
5/8 Koeller spike
Bergischer Lowe
Harris face milk

Another honing experiment gone awry, so I had to finish up with the BL. Got a VG shave anyway.

I recieved a couple of "shave ready" razors in the mail today and was anxious to try them out: a Henckels, #401, and a Genco,"Easy-Aces". I stroped the Hinckels 60 times(I am confident on my stroping skills, even though I am new to wet str8 razor shaving) on my new "Tony Miller" 2 sided paddle. It just didn't feel right , but I do not have a heavy beard and decided to try it anyway. This was a great experience for me! It went as follows:

Hot shower with a Bay Rum shaving soap, that dried out while shaving, but it makes a great shower soap(hint!).
Proraso pre-shave crm with hot towel.
Colleen's "Provence" Lavender SC
Silver tip badger
Henckels 401
The 1st WTG pass seemed to leave an unusual amount of stubble; I thought it would pick it up on the next XTG. As I started the 2nd pass, I am noticing it just isn't cutting. What to do? This isn't working! I have three choices: The Feather DE, The Feather str8, or my "Beau Brummel". It's the Beau Brummel! I strop 60 times on the leather side and itt feels good! I proceed to do the shave over. Colleen's soap is still creamy and rich(good on her!). The shave is beautiful! I have been finishing all my shaves with the DE, and as I progress in my shaving skills, my goal has been to complete a wonderful BBS shave with only the str8 razor. Today it happened. No DE, and the shave is the best, yet!!!! Yes, I am disapponted in the Henckels. I have a barber's stone and the other side of my paddle is impregnated with .5 chromium oxide. I might mess around with it and see what I can do.

NOTE: I shaved Commando! It's funny; when I first started reading some of RichZ's threads, I thought Commando was something like shaving dry with a Bowie knife, just like Gary Cooper did in "Disatant Drums". Yes, I finialy figured it out!

Thanks for listening...

Don,
You and Lynn are going to make me buy one yet. I've already got the wife on the expectation train.....

Good shave today. Had ~36 hours of stubble going in.

Dovo 5/8
Barbus soap
Burma Shave brush
WTG & ATG passes

My Dovo 5/8 from Tony is still the champ of the group. It "finds" the whiskers better than the rest, letting me use very little pressure. To boot, I don't think XTG passes accomplish much for me, besides removing skin, so my face ended up really smooth with the least amount of irritation yet!

Thu:

Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold-Dachs Spezial soap
Hand American strop
5/8 Koeller spike
Pinaud Clubman A/S

Following yesterday's honing experiment disaster I took this razor back to the Shaptons last night. Seems to have worked; I got an excellent shave this morning.

Day Off Made this one last

Shavemac Silver Tip 30mm Soaking in the Super Scuttle
Dr. Harris Pre-Shave
Mitchell's Wool Fat
Maestro Livi 7/8 in Abalone Scales
4 Passes
WWR
CWS
QED Alum Stick
Thayers Rose Toner
Em's Skindicinal ASB
Pashana Original Hair Tonic
Finished with Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet EDT

Wonderful

Fri

Muhle silvertip
Speick cream
5/8 Revisor
Speick a/s
Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet


This was my first time with the Speick products. They've been getting a lot of play on the other forums lately. I have to say these are great products. Fresh, light and feels good for the skin Super shave today.

Jordan

Hot shower



15/16 Dorko round point
Colleen's Moss & Oak cream
Silvertip badger brush




I had some extra time today so I shaved very slow and carefully and had a truely great shave so good infact that I didn't have to shave this AM (Friday) Now that is a first for me.

Face Scrub + Steaming Towel

6/8 Bergfeld & Sohn -Globusmen
Casswell Massey Shave Cream
AOS Badger Brush

Thayer's Witch Hazel

Hot Shower

5/8 Boker RI 101
Tony Miller strop
Vulfix 374 silvertip
Trumper's Violet cream
Michelsen's Bay Rum



Terry