Attachment 324729
Lewis Custom
Noble Otter ~ Lonestar
Rubberset #4 ~ Custom Tuxedo
Have a fine week gentlemen
Cheers!
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Attachment 324729
Lewis Custom
Noble Otter ~ Lonestar
Rubberset #4 ~ Custom Tuxedo
Have a fine week gentlemen
Cheers!
Attachment 324730
Fr. Herder 8/8
Polo 8 Super
Luna Soap
with sloe berries
For 20 Sept to 26 Sept 2020
Attachment 324736
Brush - Replica vintage Klenso boar brush
Soap - LEA cream
Razor - Russian
AS - AV Classic Ice Blue - even took off the part of the label that said "unbreakable plastic bottle" specially for Tom
No prep cold water 4 pass face lathered shave
Bob
20 September 2020
* Blackbird Black Oxide SB 101
* Wizamet Iridium Super
* Epsilon 2-Band + DK Faux Briarwood C7
* Mystic Water Poggio dei Pini
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/UNrPFq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Q6CoWFX.jpg
Michael Waterhouse Custom FBU Smiler
Strop Martin J. Rubin 4601 New York
Omega EVO shaving brush Special Veteran Synthetic
Soap SV Tundra Artica
Viktor & Rolf Spice Bomb Balm
Viktor & Rolf Spice Bomb Extreme Edp
SOTD 20200920 All That Giazz
by IschiaPP @ Forio
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Heinrich L. Thäter "49125/1"
Silberspitze Dachs 3-streifen, 24x50x101mm
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Zingari Man "The Navigator"
Artisanal Shaving Soap, Sego Base, Sample
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Oneblade Genesis V2
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Feather SE FHS-5
Hi-Stainless, Platinum & PTFE Coated, #5
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#Shave #WetShaving #WetShavers
#ShaveOfTheDay #ShaveLikeaMan
https://i.imgur.com/Et7lJ41.jpg
Full size:
https://imgur.com/Et7lJ41
Soundtrack:
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
https://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg
The fragrance suggested the soundtrack to me.
But I'm undecided, these are fine too ...
https://youtu.be/FklUAoZ6KxY
https://youtu.be/NN75im_us4k
Razor: H&S NO75
Blade: Gillette Perma-Sharp stainless
Brush: Simpsons Trafalgar T3
Pre-shave: Castle Forbes
Cream: Baum.Be
Balm: OneBlade lavender
Finale: Stetson
Attachment 324751
Attachment 324752
Max Sprecher 8/8 Spanish Point
Sē'bŭm Latte
Saponificio Varesino 2.0 Cocobolo
Sunday's Shave
Pre: Argan Oil Soap
Brush: Shavemac 26mm Synthetic
Razor: Manaslu 205 Japanese Straight 6/8 :love:
Soap: Baume.be Cream
Splash: Quorum
Balm: Bart's Bergamot and Vanilla
Scent: Lidl No.1
Attachment 324755
Attachment 324759
SOTD SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
Today’s shave deserves to be framed. I spent yesterday afternoon applying some of the honing principles my son, Ben, has taught me. I began with the Imperia La Roccia (ILR) stone I nationalized from Ben’s rock garden. Worked up a slurry on the ILR after first lapping it with Ben’s coarse Atoma diamond plate and followed with a tomo nagura slurry stone and kept gradually diluting the created slurry until I was working with just water and the blade began to stick. I then spent about an hour with the UF side of my jasper stone and plain water until the blade again began to stick. Three pasted stroppings (0.5, 0.25, 0.1) and 30 strokes on the leather paddle strop and the blade began to resemble my Diamond Hayashi Nichiri Tokusen Silver Steel Razor’s edge under 200x magnification. The pattern is not identical because the steel’s different, but the smoothness is evident as is the slightly more acute angle as I did not use tape on the spine.
I just can’t stop grinning after today’s mug shave. Yesterday’s shave was ok, and many would be happy with it. Maybe it’s just the fact that I rebuilt the edge by increasing the angle slightly and smoothing it out. Despite the slight stubble, the blade floated through the MWF lather both above and below the jawline. The weep from yesterday reopened, but the MWF lather did its thing and by the end of the first ATG pass was no longer bleeding. The second and final XTG pass put the baby in the velveteen cradle. My greatest learning which was truly freeing was recognizing that my straight shave was just that and need not mirror many of the straight shaving exemplars on YT. It was Jared Connerty’s video and his unconventional - at least according the others I’d viewed - two handed blade hold on an ATG neck pass that helped me realize it's my shave, freeing me up to use a variety of unconventional holds.
After that great mug shave, I loaded the RR Hawk V3 with a fresh palm-stropped Feather Super and had at it. The huge 26mm Two Band Badger ferrule in the Alpha Shaving T-400 Tribute brush worked up a rich, yogurty, slick lather. Applying the lather with this huge rush really felt good and just contributed to what turned out to be a truly paradigm-shifting shave. Particularly so when my mug shave feels so much closer than my dome shave. I had this same experience two days ago with the Feather DX. Now don’t get me wrong, I do believe that technique trumps tools. It just appears to me in retrospect that the infinitely flexible angles afforded the open edge shaver do provide a leg up technique wise when compared to the fixed angle built into a safety razor. I’ll have to think some more on this recognition. Maybe I just experienced my first Kuhnian Shaving paradigm shift! In any case I feel velveteen, clean and refreshed on this beautiful morning in Philadelphia!
RAZOR: Riga Razor 7/8 (Mug), RazoRock SS Hawk V3 (Dome)
BLADE: Feather Super
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by Argan Oil
BRUSH: Alpha Shaving T-400 Tribute w/ 26mm Two Band Badger Ferrule
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Humphreys Lilac WH and Osage Rub. Finished with Alt-Innsbruck and A&E Post-Shave Serum.
Sunday's Shave
'181 Layer Random'
Attachment 324760
Feather AS-D2
Feather blade
J&T badger brush in ebony
Mondial bergamotto & neroli shaving cream
Proraso balm
Institut Karité night cream
Penhaligon’s Eau de Verveine
Attachment 324790
F. Herder #3
Prometheus green Apple 28mm Oumo Motherload
Noble otter Rawr + AS
Attachment 324798
SOTD September 20
Kinfolks - Real Red Point
Heirloom Razor Strop Co. Old No.2 Notovan
SV TSC Brush
Proraso Green Soap
Proraso Green Aftershave
Borotalco
My first in a long time, it’s special
Razor- Wade and Butcher, Tom gifted me this razor. A unicorn for me
I had told him I was going to steal it so he saved me the felony, butter smooth edge
Brush- a Bill Barber creation, still one of my favorite
Leather- from Tom also, from the master, circa 1943, old shell Kanoyama
Suds- well maybe don’t even need to say it cause it’s pretty much all I use, MDC lavender
And another gift from Tom the nourishing. Afta great stuff
Had a glass of Knob Creek afterwards and now just waiting on the BBQ.
Attachment 324803Attachment 324804
Very nice Tc :chapeau
21 September 2020
* Blackbird Brass SB 101
* Wizamet Iridium Super
* WSP 2-Band + Oscar11 Aquamarine C7
* Mystic Water Poggio dei Pini
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/EQYd4c.jpg
21 -SEPTEMBER-2020
Steam Punk/ Muhle/ Koch & Schäfer Solingen-Wald. Trademark “Kama”/ L’Occitane 3-in-1
https://i.imgur.com/IxNydvJ.jpg
SOTD 20200921 Navigator
by IschiaPP @ Forio
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The Grooming Co. AVAmix
Sintético Gen4, 24x52x95mm
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Zingari Man "The Navigator"
Artisanal Shaving Soap, Sego Base, Sample
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Dorco PL602
3-piece hack aka "PP603"
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Trig Silver Edge Box10 by Treet #14
•••
#Shave #WetShaving #WetShavers
#ShaveOfTheDay #ShaveLikeaMan
https://i.imgur.com/YcbZ1Df.jpg
Full size:
https://imgur.com/YcbZ1Df
Soundtrack:
Alan Silvestri - Overture (Flight of the Navigator OST)
https://youtu.be/YZsv2q3FKnA
Razor: H&S NO75
Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
Brush: Yaqi synthetic
Pre-shave: Castle Forbes
Cream: OneBlade lavender
Balm: OneBlade lavender
Finale: Paul Sebastian
Attachment 324815
Monday's Shave
'Blue Mosaic'
Attachment 324821
Monday's Shave
Pre: Argan Oil Soap
Brush: TDR 26mm Synbad
Razor: Heljestrand 5/8 on Loan
Soap: S.V 70th Anniversary
Splash: Proraso Red
Balm: Bart's Unscented
Scent: Lidl No.1
Attachment 324822
Le Grelot
Martin de Candre
Vulfix Super Badger
Stetson
All atop a Wapiti hide
22 September 2020
* Blackbird Brass SB 101
* Wizamet Iridium Super
* Shavemac D01 2-Band Ebonite Vesuv Red
* Mystic Water Poggio dei Pini
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/S8nOMZ.jpg
Razor: Timeless
Blade: Gillette 7 O’Clock Super Stainless
Brush: Omega Evo
Pre-shave: Castle Forbes
Soap: Martin de Candre
Balm: OneBlade lavender
Finale: Santa Maria Novella
Attachment 324856
Tuesday's Shave
Pre: Argan Oil Soap
Brush: Wild West 24mm Cashmere
Razor: Karve SB Brass D Plate
Blade: Treat Platinum
Soap: S.V Felice Aromatica
Splash: Quorum
Balm: Bart's Bergamot and Vanilla
Scent: 401 E Armatrice
Attachment 324857
SOTD 20200922 Daisho
by IschiaPP @ Forio
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The Grooming Co. AVAmix
Sintético Gen4, 24x52x95mm
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Daisho "Tuscan Citrus"
Artisanal Shaving Soap, Tallow Base, Sample
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FrankenRazor PP1489
(Edwin Jagger DE89 / Maggard Razors "MR14" Aluminium Handle)
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Astra Keramik (Vintage) #6
•••
#Shave #WetShaving #WetShavers
#ShaveOfTheDay #ShaveLikeaMan
https://i.imgur.com/93T3Feh.jpg
Full size:
https://imgur.com/93T3Feh
Soundtrack:
Anja Kotar - Tuscany
https://youtu.be/d3GXfuooFLY
Attachment 324858
Max Sprecher 8/8 Spanish Point
Sē'bŭm Max Sprecher Custom
Mozingo Brushworks ZT3
Tuesday's Shave
'Hot Rod 49'
Attachment 324860
Aloha!
Tabac Tuesday, Gentlemen. Combined with some Vinyl Jazz and vintage stereo equipment. My other passion;
Razor: Merkur 34c with Feather Blade
Soap: Tabac Stick
Brush: Perfecto Badger
Aftershave: Tabac
Vinyl Turntable: Vintage Pioneer PL-514 Belt Drive with Vintage Shure Dampening Magnetic Cartridge
Amplifier: Vintage Pioneer SX-1000tw
Speakers: Vintage Pioneer Lattice Grill Floor Speakers CS-A700
Album: Thelonious Monk Palo Alto - The Lost Album Just Released from 1968
Attachment 324866
Enjoy the day, gentlemen. Mahalo!
Attachment 324868
FD Bastet ‘S Hage
Zingari Man/ Grizzly Bay #7 V7 fanchurian
A&E pre serum
Zingari Man Explorer +ASB
23 September 2020
* Blackbird Black Oxide SB 101
* Wizamet Iridium Super
* Epsilon 2-Band + DK Faux Briarwood C7
* Mystic Water Poggio dei Pini
* Unrefined Shea Butter
* Bergamot/Vetiver EO
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/0hmVpb.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/acLvBVj.jpg
Cedric Christ Custom Hoshi Tombo Tribute Suminagashi
Strop Martin J.Rubin 4601 New York
Semogue LE Boar
Crabtree & Evelyn Moroccan Myrrh Soap
Frankincense Sweet Orange Neroli & Myrrh AS Balm
Jo Malone Myrrh & Tonka Bean Cologne Intense
Knife Zero Tolerance Anzo Slipjoint in carbon fibre CPM 20CV
SOTD 20200923 AL13N
by IschiaPP @ Forio
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Alexander Simpson Trafalgar T3
Sovereign Synth, 32x53x113mm
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The Goodfellas' Smile Uva Mirtillo
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Henson Shaving AL13 Dual Tone BRB
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Astra Green Superior Platinum #1
•••
#Shave #WetShaving #WetShavers
#ShaveOfTheDay #ShaveLikeaMan
https://i.imgur.com/KP8pMFN.jpg
Full size:
https://imgur.com/KP8pMFN
Soundtrack:
Jerry Goldsmith - Alien Main Title
https://youtu.be/yc94TrMnwaw
23 -SEPTEMBER-2020
Joserra Noir/ Edwin Jagger/ Ern/Joserra Noir As
https://i.imgur.com/mZxM3Hh.jpg
Razor: H&R NO75
Blade: Lord
Brush: Simpson Trafalgar T3
Pre-shave: Castle Forbes
Cream: Taylor of Old Bond Street
Finale: Pecksniff’s
Attachment 324876
Wednesday's Shave
Pre: Argan Oil Soap
Brush: Shavemac 24mm Synbad
Razor: Koraat 6/8 Near Wedge
Soap: S.V Felice Aromatica
Splash: Skin Bracer
Balm: Bart's Unscented
Scent: X Bolt
Attachment 324879