SOTD: July 27, 2008 - August 2, 2008

Best badger shaving brush
Trumper's Sandalwood shaving soap
Dovo's Best Russian Leather Strop
6/8 Thiers-Issard "Evide Sonnant Extra" razor
Trumper's Sandalwood Skin Food

Very nice shave. :)

Viktor

This morning, an English shave:

T&H pre-shave oil
T&H 1805 shaving cream
Edwin Jagger Silvertip
W&B 7/8 (oh yes, the celebrated... thank you Buddel!)
T&H 1805 aftershave balm

Oh dear, I like it so much

A few moments ago:

TGQ Cavendish Black
Vintage scuttle
EverReady Pure Badger brush
Geo. Wostenholm IXL 5/8
Alum block
QED/SRP Tobacco a/s balm

3 passes, bbs


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Monday "European Union"

5/8 Ookla Wapienica
B&B Essential Brush
HoneyBee Old Spice SS
Old Spice AS

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/attachm...1&d=1217299622

Le Grelot Tuesday

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Puma 6/8
QED Sandalwood SS
Rooney 1/1 super
Nivea ASB
L'Occitane Vetyver

Purrrfect shave ;)

Tonight:

Ogallala Bay Rum soap
Shavemac best badger
Geo. Wostenholm & Son IXL 6/8
loom strop from Gugi
Alum block
Ogallala Bay Rum A/S Skin Toner

The last time I had used this razor it pulled like the dickens...so I knew it needed a good touch up. Gugi was kind enough to send a pasted paddle strop and a loom strop for me to try out, so I knew this was the razor to test them out on. I gave it 3 passes, no pulling, just bbs.

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11/16 H.Eicker & Sohne "Biedermeier"
B&B Essential Brush
Mama Bear's Chypre Rose SS
Pinaud Clubman AS

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/attachm...1&d=1217384827

Very Nice :cool:

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Wednesday
July 30, 08

Vintage 5/8 TI "Le Dandy"
Simpsons Chubby 1 Best
Tabac SS
Blue Floid AS
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/attachm...1&d=1217472362

Thursday morning... As we will have a very warm and heavy day, lime is just what is needed:

Monoï miracle oil from The Body Shop
Vulfix Sicilian Lime shaving cream
Vulfix Super Badger brush
Dorko 15/16
G. F. Trumper lime skin food

Last night.

Dovo "6/8" tortoise
Old taylor imitation badger brush
Woodsprite "forest" organic soap
Miessence after shave balm
Moss scuttle

Very nice shave.:D

Thursday

TI Super "Gnome" 5/8
Trumpers Rose Shaving Soap
Plisson #12 HMW / Genuine Horn

This morning 7:30 a.m.

W&B Wedge
Custom silvertip kingswood brush
Shave bowl purchased in Japan (tea bowl originally)
Tabac
Seraphims shave ointment (sweet almond, jojoba,grapeseed oils & vitamin E)
TM artisan strop

Excellent, smooth shave:tu

Today is the National Day of Switzerland, 1st of August. We are remembering our 717 years of existence. In this special day, I choose to remember also my first shave with a straight razor using the same "procedure":

The Art of Shaving pre-shave oil
The Art of Shaving unscented shaving cream
Kent BK4
Le Grelot 6/8, 1/4 grind
The Art of Shaving aftershave balm

Friday Fidelity
Thiers Issard 5/8 Super "Gnome" Extra
Plisson #12 High Mountain White in Genuine Horn
TABAC Shave Soap

Last night:

Proraso
B. Altman & Co Pure Badger
Wade & Butcher spike (with bloodwood scales made by Str8razor)
pasted paddle strop & loom strop from Gugi
QED-SRP Tobacco a/s balm

3 passes, bbs

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Saturday 08/02/08

Thiers Issard Silver Steel 6/8 "Loup et Bellier"
Plisson #12 Genuine Horn / HMW
Trumpers Rose Shaving Soap
MH Hadley/Louisville Pottery Antique Mug

The rarest of the Uberlather ever since Crabtree & Evelyn discontinued the Sweet Almond Oil Shave Cream I have been hoarding this stuff.... Luckily one of the members here sent me a big ole tub of it, so now I get the pleasure of using some of it again...

C&E Almond Cream and Almond soap mixed with 5 drops of Glycerin into a super creamy lather.....
A Fritz Bracht #80 Tennis Razor loaned to me by my friend Gugi....
2 smooth passes finished off with a splash of Bois d' Inde Bay Rum AS
What a great morning !!!!


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my very first SotD!

Hot post-work shower
Kent Boar Hair Brush
TGQ Sandalwood-Vanilla Sampler Soap
Dovo Ebony 6/8 spike (self honed i might add)
soup bowl
Gillette Series Wild rain aftershave

Full face+upper lip, no chin(because i have hair there) the spike only dug in once just below my left ear.