Thread: Sunday March 21 ~ Saturday March 27

23 March 2021

Blackbird Titanium
Wizamet Iridium Super
Shavemac D01 2-Band Marble Blue
Stirling Sheep
Unrefined Shea Butter
Bergamot/Vetiver EO

Stirling HA SS Razor
Timeless Crown Handle
Polsilver Super Iridium
CBL Bergamot Lemon Soap
Semogue Owners Club 2 band
Harry's Post Shave Balm
Brut

23 - March - 2021
G&G Spicy Flowers/Semogue Soc/Kama/G&G Spicy Flowers AS

SOTD 20210323 Sensibile
by IschiaPP @ Forio
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Semogue Mistura
Limited Edition 2013 Barbear ClÃssico #13/100
50% Boar Premium Grade 90% Tops, 50% Badger Finest 2-band, 22x50x100mm
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St James of London Mandarin & Patchouli Shaving Cream
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Gillette Sensor Excel #2
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IschiaSPA Hydra 3D APS
Linea Termale Essenziale Emulsione Viso 50ml
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Rodolfo Landini Musk After Shave
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#Shave #WetShaving #WetShavers
#ShaveOfTheDay #ShaveLikeaMan



Full size:
https://imgur.com/fiNYBp3
Soundtrack:
Marco Rinaldo - Tocco Sensibile
https://youtu.be/SLWFCxmZci0

SOTD TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 2021

RAZOR: Dovo Special 5/8 (Mug), Classic Shaving’s Occam’s DE
BLADE: Feather DE
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: Alpha Shaving T-400 Tribute with Hybrid Knot Ferrule
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse withHumphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Pre de Provence Bergamot & Thyme Balm.

Custom Riga Razor
Martin J.Rubin 4601 New York
Fibre Silvertip XL
Crabtree & Evelyn Moroccan Myrrh Soap
Frankincense Sweet Orange Neroli & Myrrh AS Balm
Jo Malone Myrrh & Tonka Bean Cologne Intense
#jamiemahoney

Tuesday's Shave
'Hot Rod 49'
Tripoli Boarhide Strop
CBL Tonsorial 'Roasted Oatmeal Stout'
Aqua Velva Ice Blue
Nivea Shave Balm

Razor: Vector
Blade: Feather Pro
Brush: Synthetic
Pre-shave: Proraso white
Soap: Zingari Man
Balm: OneBlade
Finale: Stetson

Sorry for the absence gentlemen.
March is end of our fiscal year, so very busy unfortunately.
Below my (very) belated St. Patrick’s day shave...

Great shave this early morning.

Me and another gentleman from this websites online forum (Sharp Razor Palace), got hold of each other and swapped a few different shaving soaps.

Yeah...it was free. Just fellowshipping with another wet shaver. (THANKS, GASMAN)!

I got four samples of shaving soaps that interested me, out of his list of 45 soaps. (I sent him about 4 as well).

The one I used today was Declaration Grooming’s, “Massacre of the Innocents”.

The scent is my wifey’s absolute favorite.

It is a spin-off of the fancy cologne, “Herod”.

I got 3 total face and head shaves out of that sample. I scraped the little 1”x2” ziplock bag with the shaving brush to get the very last bits of it.

I gotta say, it was probably the best consistency on a shaving soap that I’ve ever tried.

Slick, crazy nice post-shave conditioning, easily lathered like there was no tomorrow, and the consistency was awesome.

One caution. It is a brownish lather, so I used a synthetic brush just in case. I didn’t want to “possibly” stain one of my badger-haired brushes.

Just a fantastic lather.

As for the brush.

It was my first ever shaving brush. And I didn’t know ANYTHING about brushes when I purchased it. (Other than badger was supposed to be the bomb).

Bottom line, it is the worst brush I have ever owned. Is was a nasty, cheap badger brush, that never splayed properly. On top of that, it ALWAYS splayed crooked and lopsided.

I just hated it.

I hated it so much, that every time I looked at it, I thought it was the worst $42 I’ve ever spent in my life.

Just left a bitter taste on my tongue...like I was sucking lemons. (Yeah...I felt THAT ripped-off).

So at one point I told myself I’m gonna swap out the cheap badger bristles for a synthetic one. And even if I ruined it while doing so, I didn’t care. It couldn’t be any worst than having a brush that I’d never use.

So I got a synthetic knot from Maggard’ or West Coast Shaving...and I drilled, chiseled, and Dremeled away.

It’s the first knot I’ve ever replaced. And if you look closely, you can see the grey 2-part epoxy between the handle and the knot.

But let me say, it is an incredible knot.

Love lathering and painting with it now.

As for the straight. It is one of two that I re-honed last night, and it’s cracee sharp.

Bottom line, great shave today.

Wish I had the matching balm.

Straight: Hibbard Spencer Bartlett
DE: Carbon Shaving CX-316L (head shave)
Lather: Declaration Grooming “Massacre of the Innocents”
Brush: Mühle (with swapped synthetic knot)