Thread: SOTD - Sun Sep 20th - Sat Sep 26th

Location:
latitude: 38.75910316375279
longitude: -121.30253791809082
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Razor: Torrey Razor Co.
Brush: Omega #50068 "Bambino" Boar
Cream: C.O. Bigelow
A/S/B: C.O. Bigelow Elixir Blue
Cologne: C.O. Bigelow Elixir Blue

Merkur 11C/Lord 5th day
VDH Boar Brush
Kell's Hemp & Aloe Soap
Fruit Of The Earth Aloe Gel
Black Suede After Shave

Location N 59° 50.050' E 010° 24.976'
6/8 Erik Anton Berg
Vintage Ever-Ready T40 Pure Badger
L'Occitane Cade SS
L'Occitane Cade AS



Music : Tom Russel, Blood And Candle Smoke.

Location: Hotel in South East Asia
Water: with a lot of hardness!!
Shaved after shower, same as every day.

Joe Chandler Custom 5/8+, 1/4 hollow grind & French Point Carbon steel blade
Kent BK4 Badger brush
Kent's Luxury Shaving Soap
Alum Block
Aqua di Parma Aftershave Tonic

Razor: Bresnick "twin duck"
Brush: Shavemac series 177
Shave cream: C.O. Bigelow
Aftershave: Spanish Floid

Shumate Tonso
TGQ Ironwood cream
AoS Pure Badger

Small and light for my tastes but very nice shave

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: EJ Best Badger
Soap: Fitjar - Miklagard
Strop: Tony Miller Heirloom tri-strop
Razor: Thiers-Issard 6/8 "Loup et Bellier"
AS: Geo. F. Trumper – Lime skin food

Shave: BBS

Vintage Soap Powder from Claus Porto
Semogue 620 Boar Brush
D. Peres 13/16 Stainless Steel Straight Razor
444 Alum Block
Brut After Shave Splash
444 After Shave Balm

Juan Vollmer Palmera #14
Semogue 2000
Origin's Easy Slider
Mitchell's Wool Fat
Dickenson's Witch hazel
Ogalalla Bay Rum AS

Going to do the Fat for a while, settle into a rhythm with it. This was a good start.

Thursday's shave - "New Toys"
Today I got my Harris Bros wedge from Lee that I'd been waiting for. What better way to try it out than in conjunction with one of the new soaps that arrived from BullGoose shaving on Tuesday?

Razor: Harris Bros 559 (near-as-damnit-wedge)
Brush: Semogue 2015
Soap(s): Tabac (1st pass + chin touchup), TOBS Lavender (touch-up pass on side of neck)
AS: Nivea replenishing balm

The shave - amazing! 4+ days of stubble vanished in one pass. Lee has honed this razor magnificently, it literally wiped away the whiskers without even feeling like it. I had a couple of small nicks on my chin and upper lip, and yet the razor was so sharp I only noticed the nicks when I saw the blood seeping through the lather. What I had expected to be a two- or three-pass shave (hence the two soaps) became a 1 pass and chin touchup shave.
The Tabac delivered a brilliant performance, an excellent intro to what is apparently a very polarising soap. Slick, thick lather, moisturising as all hell, simply brilliant. I had to use the TOBS for something, so used a small amount of it on the side of my neck where I have a few odd whiskers - lovely scent, great cushion - also an excellent intro. I'm now sitting at my computer faceturbating like a madman, and loving it. Thanks Lee and Phil (bullgoose), a great shave thanks to you two gents.