Thread: May 27, 2007 - June 2, 2007

Hot Towel
Mama Bear Masculine Musk
AOS Fine Badger
5/8 Friodur
Alum
Trumper's Coral Skin Food

Hot shower


4/8 Femarud
C&E sandalwood shaving cream
Silvertip badger brush

C&E sandalwood shaving balm



good shave..

Fri:

Rooney small style 1 brush
Penhaligon Blenheim Bouquet soap
Hand American strop
5/8 Koeller spike
Harris face milk
Murray & Lanman Florida Water

Great shave.

Fri

Rooney finest No. 1 sm
Tabac soap
Revisor 6/8
Tabc a/s
Tabac EDC

This razor isn't just there yet so the shave was a little ragged. Next time.

Jordan

Hot rinse and conditioner on beard
EJ BB brush
Taylors shaving shop cream

Kaessar 5/8 spike
Trumpers coral skin food
Pinaud Clubman classic a/s

Top notch.

Hot towel routien
Proeaso Pre-Shave
Colleen's Bay Rum w/Sweet Orange SC
Feather A/C
Clubman

Fabulous Shave!

I hadn't used the Feather for over a month. Since I've been practising with real str8s my shaving technique has improve quite a lot. I was always cutting myself with the Feather. With a very light hand, you can get a really great shave with this baby. No alum, no CSF, ...perfect! I will say that I did not get the satisfaction I usually get from using a real razor. Not that the Feather isn't a real razor, but everytime I got a great shave with a NOS razor that I had something to do with preparing the edge, I got a real rush from it. - almost a HIGH! This time I got that great shave, but there wasn't that feeling of a great accomplishment. Perhaps all those feeling will pass with time (I hope not)

Steve Boyd

hot shower
20/30 TM horsehide
TOBS lavender cream
6/8 boker spike extra hollow
three passes
alum for the cut under my nose
witch hazel
dominica bay rum A/S

not a great day but it is my favorite razor... must be getting jealous of the company it has been keeping.

Sat:

Rooney small style 1 brush
Penhaligon Blenheim Bouquet soap
Hand American strop
5/8 Wapienica
Harris face milk

The Wapienica was honed on the Polish translucent Arkansas stone and stropped 100 laps on paper to smooth it out. Pretty good shave; the arkansas stone will improve as it breaks in.

Hot Shower
face scrub
conditioner

7/8 W&B Vlad original
Colleen's Cavendish Black
Silvertip Badger brush

C&E Nomad ASB



Very good shave and smell too.

1.5 days' stubble

Matt super silvertip ivory
Lucky Tiger Shave Lotion
Vintage Clydesdale strop
Dorko Naked Lady
TI 188 Art Deco
Trumper's alum
Trumper's CSF

Testing again. This time the Dorko was nice, whew! Took me a while to get it where I like it.

The TI looks quite nice, I have been thinking about these Art Deco scales for a while. Interestingly, I did most of the work on my Swaty just for kicks and it worked very well. I still used the Y/G and Chromium after the Swaty, though. I think I'll go back to the Y/G for more and test again. It does feel stiffer than other full hollows - no complaints there.

Nice shave (albeit a morning one) and just one tiny nick, no irritation.

Cheers
Ivo