Thread: SOTD Monday Feb.18th - Sunday Feb.24th

Love the Pinaud 'Lime Sec'

Great shave this morning, using a Beau Brummel the Spanner sent me!!!!!
Got it all honed up, and this is every bit as good as any of my Ducks, which I guess should not be surprising since they came from the same factory !!!!

A Wonderful Wednesday Morning!!!!!


Steaming hot towel prep x 4
Hot water rinse
Build the Uberlather using a 28mm Silvertip Ebony Shavemac

Almond Uberlather:
The Body Shop shave cream
Classic Almond shave soap
Pure Glycerin

Hot water rinse
Lather up
Razor: Beau Brummel Werk #35 Spike Point 11/16
Strop Illinois #827 Russian
20 laps linen
30 laps leather
Steaming hot towel over the lather
Re-lather
WTG pass
Hot water rinse
Re-lather
20 laps leather
XTG on the cheeks
ATG on the neck
Touch up on beard lines
Hot water rinse
Cold water rinse
Coffee Time!!!! Write in the SOTD, Relax
Hot Shower!!!!!
Cold water rinse
Aftershave: Pinaud Clubman Bay Rum



Have a Great Day!!!!

Wednesday:
5/8 Henckels Red Twins
Simpson's Special best
Coates Sandalwood sc
DR Harris a/s milk
Trumper's Spanish Leather Edt.

Wednesday

Dovo Prima Rindleder Strop
Genco 6/8
C.O. Bigelow cream
C & E Best Badger Brush
Georgetown Scuttle
Thayers Regular Witch Hazel
Aqua Velva Ice Blue

25 laps linen,
35 laps leather.

Soak scuttle in hot water.

Lather up, MMMMMMMMMM Warm Lather (Sung to the tune of Homer Simpsons "MMMMMMMMMM Donuts").

WTG Cheeks, neck and under chin (I have a moustache and goatee).
Warm water rinse.

Relather - Still Warm!
XTG Cheeks, neck and under chin.
Warm Water rinse.

Relather - Lather is STILL Warm - GAWD I love this scuttle...
XTG Touchup (still a newbie - so I'm workin' on it).

Warm water rinse,
Cold water splash,
Apply Thayers.

Clean up scuttle, razor and sink area.

Aqua Velva - Love the BURN...

Gotta get dressed and go to work...

PS.

When you folks post your pics, do you make them up ahead of time or do you really have that much time in the morning to devote for a SOTD picture setup and post? Cause I gotta say, the pictures in this forum are great!!!!!

lathered up with KMF unscented cream + hint of baking soda (is my water hard?)
lather was not so great... dried out before end of pass, never did w/o baking soda... baking soda experiment ended!

hot towel -> lather face
strop 5/8 Wapienica 40x on newspaper
1x WTG -> hot towel -> lather face
1x XTG hot towel -> lather face
1x ATG
warm rinse and slight touchup (pushed too far on lip)
3 spots bleeding on top lip
shower -> no more bleeding!
homemade lime AS
<Borat>Nice!</Borat>

Testing out my other new razor today (yes I know it is probably 60 years old but it's new to me) a 5/8 Beau Brummel.....


Steaming hot towel prep x 4
Hot water rinse
Build the Uberlather using a 28mm Silvertip Ebony Shavemac

Wild Rose Uberlather:
Cryil R Salter Rose shave crème
Classic Rose shave soap
Pure Glycerin

Hot water rinse
Lather up
Razor: #35 Beau Brummel 5/8 Spike Point
Strop Illinois #827 Russian
50 laps linen
60 laps leather
Steaming hot towel over the lather
Re-lather
WTG pass
Hot water rinse
Re-lather
40 laps leather
XTG on the cheeks
ATG on the neck
Touch up on beard lines
Hot water rinse
Cold water rinse
Thayers Rose WH
Coffee Time!!!! Write in the SOTD, Relax
Hot Shower
Cold water rinse
Aftershave: Bois D' Inde Bay Rum AS



Have a Great Day!!!!

Thursday

Kiss My Face
C & E BBB
Georgetown Pottery Scuttle - WARM LATHER!!!
Boker 6/8
Thayers Witch Hazel
Aqua Velva Ice Blue

Savile Row Ebony SR3318, in Finest Silver Tip Badger, B&B group buy
Taylor of Old Bond Street Lavender Shaving Soap
5/8 H. Boker "GOOD AS GOLD"
WWR
QED Da Vinci Water
CWR
Saint Charles Shave Lavender ASM
Saint Charles Shave Lavender EDT

Thursday

Placed mug and brush in warm water for several minutes.

Lather

TOBS Rose SC
Pure Glycerin

Wapi 5/8 (which I honed today)

Illinois #827 Strop

20X Linen
50X Leather

Steaming Towel to face

Lather up

1X WTG
20X Leather
Rinse and relather

1X XTG
20X Leather
Rinse and relather

1X ATG
WWR
CWR

Thayer's Superhazel with Aloe
Old Spice (my wife's gonna kill me )

Dry blade and 10X Leather


Some day I'll post pics

John

MUSIC:
Memories Are Made of This – Dean Martin (CD)

B&B ‘06 Ltd. Ed Finest in Horn
Castle Forbes Cedarwood & Sandalwood SC
A. Arnold “Lancet” 6/8 Barber’s Notch Quarter Hollow #2
QED Texas Cedarwood ASB
Penhaligon Quercus EdT