Monday:
9/16 Joseph Allen
Simpson's Special best
AOS Lavender ss
SCS Lavender a/s milk
Trumper's Eau de Portugal
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Monday:
9/16 Joseph Allen
Simpson's Special best
AOS Lavender ss
SCS Lavender a/s milk
Trumper's Eau de Portugal
http://badgerandblade.com/gallery/di...?imageid=11209
Another Monday morning, This morning is a test shave on a razor for a member here at SRP just finished honing this one up....
Steaming hot towel prep x 4
Hot water rinse
Build the Uberlather using a 28mm Silvertip Ebony Shavemac
Extreme Cushion Uberlather:
The Body Shop shave cream
Mitchell's Wool Fat shave soap
Pure Glycerin
Hot water rinse
Lather up
Razor: A Northfield Cutlery co 5/8 Barbers Notch
Strop Illinois #827 Russian
50 laps linen
60 laps leather
Steaming hot towel over the lather
Re-lather
My test for razors is pretty extreme I go ATG right off the bat, and they better not pull..... This one passed :D
Hot water rinse
Re-lather
20 laps leather
XTG
Touch up on beard lines
Hot water rinse
Cold water rinse
Coffee Time!!!! Write in the SOTD, Relax!!!!!
Hot Shower
Cold water rinse
Aftershave: Royall Bay Rhum AS
Attachment 6683
Have a Great Day!!!!
Simpson Chubby 1 Super
C&E Sandalwood Soap
3" TM Honey Brown Strop
5/8 TI PT Handforged
D.R. Harris Sandalwood AS
Floris Santal EDT
A great shave http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/ima...lies/smile.gif I had not used the brush or razor in a while and just did a couple laps on the
Escher for a touch up and had a very nice shave. The Chubby 1 is a great brush http://www.theshaveden.com/forum/ima...es/biggrin.gif
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Solingen 6/8 round tip
C&E BBB
Georgetown scuttle
Speick SC
Speick AS
Savile Row Ebony SR3318, in Finest Silver Tip Badger, B&B group buy
Cyril R.Salter French Vetiver Shaving Cream
5/8 Cutlery World 7802 Solingen, Round Point
WWR
Alum
CWR
QED Vetiver EO After Shave Skin Conditioner Balm
Guerlain Vetiver EDT
7/8 W&B wedge
TM latigo linen
Simpson PJ2 super
Tryphon permafrost
Proraso ASB
HWR- my sink pours water all over the floor and into the cabinet. Try the second sink and find the same thing
conditioner
strop20 linen 30 leather. I would strop more but the pins are so loose I kept having to stop my strokes to make sure I would not roll the edge. It was 30 half assed strokes at best
Gather up all of my gear to the downstaris bathroom sink where there is only a sink a toilet and a towel rack. Go to make my hot towel and guess what that sink is leaking. So I fill it with water and plug the drain.
Hot towel
lather
wait for lather to soak in while I have a smoke
hot towel from the microwave over lather
relather and shave 2 passes. This razor is not shaving what it should be and I have a good deal of irritation after the shave.
I think I went at this for an hour today. There you have it. A bad shave in the SOTD forum. Maybe I ought to only post here when I have a really good shave but I thought I should share.
Tuesday Morning....
5/8 Waterville
C&E Best Badger
TM #1 Horsehide - 40 Laps
Mitchell's Wool Fat
Lather
Hot, wet towel over the lather
three passes, two WTG, one WTG, XTG, ATG
Thayer's lavender Witch Hazel
Another Super Shave!
* Just recieved the C&E Best Badger in the mail yesterday. Great reviews at B&B! I was very dissappointed in this brush! Yea, it was only $35.00, but in lieu of the reviews @ B&B, I decided to buy it. Very floppy & not dense at all. Dissapointment!! :(
** My fourth shave with the Mitchell's Wool Fat. This soap has given me my best shaves since I started Str8 shaving a year age. Yes, lathering is tricky, but it can be solved. Very slippery! - The big thing about this soap is the quality of the shave it produces and how your skin feels afterwards. Yes, you need a good edge and good shaving techniques - but all in all, I feel this will be, and is, my #1 go to soap! :D
MUSIC:
Three – Bob James (CD)
Coates Tea Tree SC
B&B ’06 Ltd. Ed. Finest in Horn
“Sweet Sue” TI LE Hammer 5/8 Quarter Hollow Notch Point
SCS Aqua ASM
Creed Green Irish Tweed EdT
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2104/...7cedfaaa_o.jpg
I felt like some Old Spice tonight ;)
Joseph Allen 5/8 barber's notch
TM RL x 50
HBS Old Spice SS
C&E BBB
WTG, ATG
Strop x 20
ATG
Old Spice AS
Ray's Skin Food
Shavemac, Custom in finest badger, Knot Size 23 mm in black
Mama Bear's Spicy Lime Shaving Soap
5/8 J. Wostenholm & Son
WWR
Alum
CWR
Col. Ichabod Conk Lime Aftershave
QED Lime EO After Shave Skin Conditioner Balm
Mama Bear's Spicy Lime EDC
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
Attachment 6769
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.
http://badgerandblade.com/gallery/di...?imageid=11224
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
Attachment 6795
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
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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 :tu )
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
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2027/...38f5530a_o.jpg
Henckel's 5/8 round point
Tabac SS
WTG, ATG
Tabac A/S
9/16ths wapienica
TM Latigo Linen
Simpson PJ2 super
QED Violetta SS
Moss scuttle
Proraso ASB
Shower with conditioner
Hot towel
Lather
strop 25/40
Hot towel
Re-lather and shave XTG, on cheeks, WTG on neck, XTG on cheeks, XTG on neck, ATG.
Rinse and dry blade
strop 20 leather
Friday morning!!!!! my early day .....
Steaming hot towel prep x 4
Hot water rinse
Build the Uberlather using a 28mm Silvertip Ebony Shavemac
Lavender Uberlather:
Kiss MY Face Lavender & Shea shave cream
Classic Lavender shave soap
Pure Glycerin
Hot water rinse
Lather up
Razor: Dubl Duck Dwarf (Bresduck) 5/8 spike point
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!!!! Found a great new blend BTW Peppermint Vanilla... Write in the SOTD, Relax
Hot Shower
Cold water rinse
Aftershave: SB Bay Rum ( this stuff is made with real rum really nice)
Attachment 6840
Have a Great Day!!!!
Today's shave...
Friday:
5/8 Unknown Bone Spike
Rooney Super 3,1
JM Fraser sc
Lucky Tiger Tonic
Taylor's Sandalwood Edt.
http://badgerandblade.com/gallery/di...?imageid=11302
OK, my first post in SOTD and my first straight razor shave...
Due in large part to the kind advice and even material support I have received from you fine gentlemen here is my first straight razor shave:
Northfield Cutlery Co. 5/8 shoulder-less (freshly honed back to shaving condition by gssixgun... thanks Glen!!!)
Vintage Sunbury Barber Supply Strop
Tabac Shaving Creme
Economy Badger Brush
Captain Smith's Island Spice Bay Rum aftershave
Was it a perfect shave? Absolutely not (there is some epic razor burn) but it was close enough and I have not a single doubt that I will become more adept as time goes on and my face adapts from the DE to the straight.
This was the culmination of a lot of effort on my part and a lot of generosity, guidance and support by you guys. It was hugely satisfying and this is your victory as much as it is mine... Thanks!
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Sappo Hill almond soap w/ bentonite clay + KMF unscented cream uberlather
Levering Razor Co.'s "The Artist" stropped 50x on newspaper
1x WTG -> WWR -> relather
1x XTG -> WWR -> relather
1x ATG -> WWR
touchup jowls, neck -> a few weepers developed
(timed myself... just under 40 minutes! Down from 1+ hour just 2 weeks ago!)
shower -> weepers gone
homemade lime AS (witch hazel, alcohol, glycerin, juice of 1 plastic lime, 40 drops lime essential oil)
Huzzah!
Hot shower
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Great shave! :tu
Ernest
I realized that lately I have hardly been using my Dubl Ducks since I made the display case they pretty much just sit there looking pretty.... So from today on very Saturday is now Dubl Duck Day or DDD would you believe D3 oh hell that was bad LOL.....:roflmao Today was my very first shave with a full wedge,
Not bad not bad at all.....
Steaming hot towel prep x 4
Hot water rinse
Build the Uberlather using a 28mm Silvertip Ebony Shavemac
Smoothie Uberlather:
Zirh shave crème
Col Conk Amber shave soap
Pure Glycerin
Hot water rinse
Lather up
Razor: Dubl Duck 11/16 SatinWedge
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: Gabels Bay rum
Attachment 6888
Have a Great Day!!!!
Badger & Blade, Limited Edition 2006 Finest Silvertip Badger in Horn
Saint Charles Shave Parma Violet, SCS Limited Edition
5/8 Clauss, #102, Ornate Scales, Square Point
WWR
Alum
CWR
Saint Charles Shave Parma Violet ASM
Saint Charles Shave Parma Violet EDT
Saturday
Lather
Col. Conk's Lime Soap
Pure Glycerin
5/8 Soligen Square Point
TM Starter strop 50X
Steaming towel
Lather
1X WTG
Rinse
Relather
Strop 20X
1X XTG
Rinse
Relather
Strop 20X
1X ATG
WWR
CWR
Thayer's Medicated Superhazel with Aloe
TOBS No. 74 Collection Victorian Lime AS
Dry razor
Strop 10X
Air dry
John
Heljestrand frame back
TM latigo Linen strop
Omega Boar brush
QED Violetta SS
Moss scuttle
MB Peppermint balm
Dominica Bay rum
HWR
Proraso soak for about 10 minutes
Hot towel X3
HWR
Lather
Strop 25/50
massage lather and re lather
shave 2 passes with some ATG touch up
5th shave in a row and I have been noticing the shave being a little less closer every time. Looks like my old skip a day practice needs to be put to use.
Yesterday and today I shaved with razors I honed myself, which is another first on the road of straight shaving. Best, smoothest, most drag free shave yet. Getting there slowly. :)
Hot shower
Trumpers Lime Skin Food as pre-shave
Trumpers Lime Shave Cream
Moss Scuttle (large)
Kent BK4
Wapi, honed by me
Tony Miller Heirloom Latigo 3" Strop
30x linen, 50x Leather
WTG
XTG
NO styptic
WWR
Alum
CWR
Trumpers Lime Skin Food
Nivea Q10 face cream
Issy Miyake cologne.
Sunday:
5/8 Dovo Special Tortoise
Simpson's Special best
C&E Sweet Almond sc
Floris Elite asb
Floris Elite Edt.
http://badgerandblade.com/gallery/di...?imageid=11309
Omega, 6215 Silver Tip Badger in Green and Gold
Saint Charles Shave Very V Shaving Cream
5/8 H. Boker & Co. # 1056, Spanish Point
WWR
Alum
CWR
QED Vetiver EO After Shave Skin Conditioner Balm
Saint Charles Shave Very V, EDT
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2056/...5477a47a_o.jpg
Trumper's Coconut
C&E BBB
RW 7/8 (Thanks, Robert!)
WTG, XTG
TOBS No 74 Lime
Hot shower
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BAM! Great shave! :y
Ernest
Tosuke
Rooney style 1 small silvertip
Taylor Avocado cream
Alum block
Feather Aftershave
Clubman razor bump repair gel
WARNING! This describes an experimental shave which may offend your sensibilities, but in the interest of science and time, I undertook this experiment.
shower
wife's Edge aloe shave gel
Fromm Brothers Eagle spike point
1x WTG
WWR -> no bleeding = go to bed
elapsed time for shave < 5 minutes
I'm definitely going to shave properly tonight, nowhere near BBS, but passable for work today.
Edge gel feels really, *really* dry while shaving with the straight... almost like shaving dry skin
If I shaved 1 pass WTG, I could shave everyday... I much prefer shaving every other day and doing it properly
I don't know who said it, but this shave reminds me of the quote "Smart people learn from their mistakes. Really smart people learn from other people's mistakes."
Preshave: Hot Towel treatment
Brush: Rooney 1/2 Finest
Razor: Simmons Howe 5/8
Cream: TOBS Avocado
Aftershave: Floris Elite Splash
Cologne: Floris Elite
Out the door: Aubrey Organics Green Tea and Gingko Moisturizer