Thread: SOTD: Sunday 11/23 to Saturday 11/29

Originally Posted by gssixgun

OK guys we have 28 days till Christmas..... I am going to go for it, "One Different Razor everyday until Christmas Morning....." I am going to make a real effort to post a pic everyday in the SOTD.. Other than the 3rd - 8th when I'll be out of town but I will try and get pics for those days too....
So what do ya say, who wants to join me????

I'm game, but I only shave every other day, so I'll post every other day.

Henckels Friodur 8/8 Spanish Point with dark grey micarta by Robert Williams.
Fitjar Såpekokeri "Mint Condition"
Edwin Jagger Medium Super Badger(Black Handle)
Weleda After Shave Balm


Nightbreed.

The river is fed by the sky. It runs over a bed of shattered mountains, through the dreams of a great forest and into the mouths of ancient fishes. It starts in clouds as grey and heavy as the sea and ends in a windswept estuary haunted by ghosts. It is a place where white swans dance on dark mud flats and salmon lay fragile eggs in nests of stones - From River of the Angry Moon by Mark Hume.

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. - From The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Crabtree and Evelyn Nomad Shave cream
Trumpers Badger brush
Lather built on face.
Wade and Butcher 6/8 half hollow restored and honed by the near legendary GSSIXGUN
20 laps linen- 50 leather
A kettle of boiling water

Neck shave and beard clean up only

Finished with a water only pass
Portland General store " Mountain man" shave balm
Geo F Trumper Essence of West Indian Limes aftershave.

It's great to be Man, celebrate manliness!

C&E Best Badger brush
TQG Highlander soap
Lather made in GP scuttle and kept hot on a mug warmer
Newly honed vintage Clauss with bone scales (more on this in a bit*)
100 laps on a TM 3" latigo strop
XTG, ATG
American Crew ASB

Absolute crap shave.

*The steel had rotted, and I thought I got to fresh steel, looked nice and black (i.e. shiney) in the microscope, but edge progressively crumbled as shave progressed...back to the 1K.

Mark

HOT SHOWER,
PROASO PRESHAVE
SHAVE CREAM IN HOT MUG/CUSTARD BOWL
THREE PASSES WITH C-MON STANLESS
PROASO AFTER SHAVE LOTION
PINNAUDS BAY RUM
AHHHHH, LIKE A NEW MAN, BBS
CANT BEGING TO TELL YOU THE PLEASURE AND COMFORT A NICE SHAVE IS FOR THE MIND.

Saturday morning:

The Gentlemen's Refinery pre-shave oil
Geo F. Trumper limes shaving cream
Edwin Jagger Silvertip
Tuckmar 6/8
Geo F. Trumper limes skin food

Oh man! I like so much that lime scent!

Originally Posted by gssixgun

OK guys we have 28 days till Christmas..... I am going to go for it, "One Different Razor everyday until Christmas Morning....." I am going to make a real effort to post a pic everyday in the SOTD.. Other than the 3rd - 8th when I'll be out of town but I will try and get pics for those days too....
So what do ya say, who wants to join me????

I'm in, but as others have said, I only shave every other day...and only currently have 4 razors in rotation (but this will be a good venue to show off the razors coming online).

Mark

Mark, Bjorn Great to have you guys getting onboard, I was thinking the same it will be sorta like decorating the house for the holidays... we'll decorate the SOTD with razor-porn pics...
Now we just need help from some more of these guys

Since I am breaking out as many razors as possible I am going to check to see which is giving me the best shave, so I am cutting back too WTG passes only just to see how it goes....



Lanolin Overload Uberlather:
Musgo Real crème
Mitchell's Wool Fat shave soap
5 Drops Pure Glycerin

Build the Uberlather using a 28mm Silvertip Ebony Shavemac #410
Steamed towel
Hot water rinse
Lather up
Razor: Craftsman #9206 11/16
Strop Illinois #827 Russian
25 laps linen
50 laps leather
Steaming hot towel over the lather
Hot water rinse
Re-lather
WTG pass
Hot water rinse
Re-lather
20 laps leather
WTG Pass
Hot water rinse
Touch up on beard lines
Hot water rinse
Alum Block pass
Clean up the Shave Den
Cold water rinse
Aftershave: Royall Bay Rhum



Have a Great Day!!!!

Shower: TGQ Oak&Moss Bath Soap
Shave Soap: TGQ Sandalwood
Brush: Stephen's 24mm in Cocobolo
Razor: Geo Wostenholm&Son IXL 6/8 Round Point
Aftershave: Brummel
Coffee: Guatemala Finca San Jose Ocana @ C+

Be-lated from Thanksgiving Day. DOVO Bergischer Lowe 5/8. C-M super silver tip. TH pre-shave oil. Uber lather: C-M greenbriar S/C. C-M greenbriar S/S. 5 drops pure glycerine oil. CWR. C-M greenbriar A/S balm. TOBS Mr. Taylors EDC. Sorry for no pics. Can't figure out how to get them here. I'm lucky to have an avatar of my razor.