Thread: May 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007

Hot shower with Cien conditioner on face

Hot rinse
Barbers almond cream preshave (not sure of make)
EJagger best badger brush
Taylors St. James collection cream (made almost runny today)

5//8" Kessar spike 3 passes with, against, across

Hot and cold rinse
2 coats of Thayers lemon and aloe witch hazel (love the stuff)
TAGMSC goatsmilk a/s balm
Paco Rabanne a/s


Lovely shave and looking forward to my Sunday shave tomorrow! After using Trumpers creams I find that the slick on Taylors is slightly better.

Time to get some Musgo, Spieck and Tabac creams next..

Tony's Paddle strop(4 on .5 Chromium Oxide, 30 on Leather)
Hot Towel Routine
Proraso Pre-Shave
Taback Soap
Ever-Ready Pure Badger
Genco "Easy-Aces", 5/8
WTG
XTG
Clubman "Original"

No DE this time!! (Hurrah)

A GREAT Shave!

W H Sample & Sons 5/8
Dovo 5/8
Van der Hagen soap
a brush

WTG & ATG passes

I got a 4000/8000 stone along with the flattening stone from Howard (thanks!), so I've redoubled my efforts at knocking the Sample into shape. After some time on the 4000 side and some pyramids, the edge looks much better under the 'scope. It was decent during the first pass, but still a little too dull, so I switched to the Dovo for the ATG pass.

Unfortunately for my face, weekends are when I do my experimenting, so I did some more honing, and cleaned up some areas around my chin with some ATG work. Still not there yet.

Rooney Style 1 small
TGQ Cavendish Black
HandAmerican 3" Latigo Strop
6/8 TI Historical Workedback
Alum
Aqua Velva Ice Blue


2 days growth, BBS in 2 passes