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

Definite need for more razor porn!!

Shower - Mama Bear's Guicci Soap
Brush - Stephen's in Mystery Wood
Shave Soap - TGQ Bay Rum w/ Sweet Orange
Aftershave - Caswell-Massey Newport

Well I had good shave about 10days ago with my vintage flea market Swedish steel razor that I restored and honed myself as a TOTAL newb using my newly acquired nortons and 12K chinese
(I'll make apost about it soon, I hope--- came out really nice )

I was surprised how well I did actualy! That perticular shave was my third shave altogether and I felt SO confident in my work that I did a straight ATG swipes.
All was well, very smooth, BUT 2 days after the deed, the area below the sides of my motuh was not so happy.
Needless to say it's been a 10days since my last shave cause it took that long to get rid of a few nasty acne-like inflamations (LOL!)

Oh did I mention I don't have a strop yet and stroped mine on a rag lined wood, pasted with metal polish paste
+ I have Lynn's DVD but havent watched it yet

Learning "on your own skin" method at it's finest I must say! LOL!

Well today was not a great shaveday..

I didnt shower before the shave.. just made my face wet and put a hot towel on my face
Lathered up and started shaving..but this time I took it too slow so the movements werent smooth..

did an against the grain on my neck.. its smooth but a bit irritated.. the rest of the shave was a bit irritating as wel. The chin is getting better and so is the upperlip.. we are getting there... someday..

the results are a pretty close shave but a but irritated skin.

http://www.fitjarsoap.no/

Nightbreed.

Kent (Giant) BK12
Dorko 5/8
CF AS/SC

TH SC
Otto Busch 7/8 Roundpoint "Best Silversteel"
Pinaud "Clubman" AS
Proraso ASB

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.