Thread: SOTD - Sun Nov 1st - Sat Nov 7th

Take two! ZethLent if you are out there. This sake its for you! And the shave!

Razor: Tadisha Machida K990 Swedish Steel
Brush: Savile Row 3824
Cream: Body Shop
AS: Mugso Real

Razor: George Wostenholm
Brush: Vulfix Pure Badger
Soap: Mama Bears Spiced Apple Cider
AS: Mama Bears Summer Peppermint
Result: first shave with no nicks using the spike point. two passes WTG and XTG very good shave. HIGHLY reccomend Mama Bears products.

Today's shave:

Nice hot warm shower, followed by:

Cream: TOBS Lemon & Lime
Brush: Kent BLK2
Straight: 11/16 J.C. Custom 1/4 grind

It was such a smooth shave that I did not feel the need for any after shave treatment.

Originally Posted by bassguy

Personally I find mahler's 5th symphony adagio movement to be perfect. Unless I'm feeling happy, then bebop is always the best answer for my ears. I'm curious what people listen to while shaving, besides "chamber music".

I love listening to the sound of whiskers being neatly shaved off..

Generally, I love music in not really all but most of its varied forms & sounds, but during my shaves, I just like the nice & quiet moment all by myself in the bathroom, or, on some days, with my wife watching and us having a nice earfly-morning conversation.

Newbie, but couldn't resist the music being mentioned.

Merkur 12C with Feather
Dovo Special for touchup
Tabac SS
Thayers WH
Nivea ASB - Sensitive

Rather than learning by using the SR and following up with the DE, I'm building more confidence by using the SR to carefully do the touchups near my mouth and chin. Reasonable strategy or am I just avoiding the real work?

Morning music: Enya
Evening music: Sade

Love the classical music too, but sometimes this music is just more soothing to me.

Originally Posted by Smoothy

I love listening to the sound of whiskers being neatly shaved off..

Generally, I love music in not really all but most of its varied forms & sounds, but during my shaves, I just like the nice & quiet moment all by myself in the bathroom, or, on some days, with my wife watching and us having a nice earfly-morning conversation.

those moments are quite sweet aren't they? Both the silence and lovely conversation. Lately I've been all about old recordings of jazz because A) they sound better on my iPhone speakers than modern recorded music and B) it's more appropriate to my environment.

Originally Posted by Obelisk

Rather than learning by using the SR and following up with the DE, I'm building more confidence by using the SR to carefully do the touchups near my mouth and chin. Reasonable strategy or am I just avoiding the real work?

When I first started Straight Shaving I just took the plunge and only used a Straight, before that I very rarely shaved, just a pair of clippers as short as they go, now I never even think of using any other razor

Razor: F.Reynolds full wedge
Brush: Simpson c3 best badger
Lather: D.R. Harris Marlborough shave cream
Aftershave: Truefitt & Hill Trafalgar

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: EJ Best Badger
Soap: The Shave Den: Mojito
Strop: Tony Miller Heirloom tri-strop
Razor: Filarmonica 14 Doble Temple
AS: Geo. F. Trumper – Lime skin food

Result: BBS

Well, long time i didn't post on SOTD..but didn't stop shaving

Hot Shower
W&B Barber's Rattler (by Max..what else)
Proraso Shave Cream (thx Federico!..i didn't forgot..! )
444 Aftershave Balm + Cold water
wtg + xtg
Result: BBS