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MONDAY

Gem G Bar
Gem Stainless Blade
Williams Mug Soap
Vulfix 2006 Badger
English Leather After Shave

Shave of Today:
Ahhhhh Just what I love, a wet slushy Monday morning, I just love when it snows then warms enough to rain and you get 5 inches of white cement
But at least the morning started of with a great shave ...
Equipment:
Razor - 11/16 Wade & Butcher Special Hollow Ground
Brush - Restored Old Spice 24mm Silvertip
Bowl - My Sundae Bowl
Strop - SRD Premium #1
Products:
Soap - Honey Bee Spas Vanilla Sandalwood
Cream - Crabtree & Evelyn Sandalwood
Glycerin
Alum
Aftershave - Ogallala Bay rum/Sandalwood
Shave:
Steaming hot towel x2
HWR
Lather
Strop 25 linen 50 leather
HWR
Lather
Combined direction pass
HWR
Lather
ATG Pass
HWR
Touch up pass
Steaming hot towel
HWR
Alum
CWR
Ice cold towel
After Shave Splash



Have a Great Day!!!!

Razor - Shumate Barber 5/8
Brush - Omega Boar
Pre - AOS Pre-Shave Oil
Shave - TWC Aspen
Post - TWC Aspen

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Shave of Today:
Ahhhhh Just what I love, a wet slushy Monday morning, I just love when it snows then warms enough to rain and you get 5 inches of white cement

+1 Amen.

Razor: Le Grelot 1/4 Grind from Rasurpur
Soap: Cella
AS: Booster's Oriental Spice

Monday Evening

Location, 52° 45' 55.10460 - 0° 57' 31.22065
Beard Prep: Hot Shower, Prorasso Preshave, HWR, Lather,Shave
Razor: Vintage Gust Haker 5/8 Full Hollow
Strop: Freshly honed on My beloved #10 Belgium Coti then Stropped on Dovo Jemco 60 canvas/60 Leather, HHT=Top Notch!
Brush: Kent BK2
Soap: La Toja Soap, with a little Glycerin, Whipped in my Denby Bowl, Man This Soap is Far Out!!
Astringent: Thayers Green
ASB: Lea Sensitive, super cool Menthol, leaves my skin like silk!
AS: Prorasso Splash, Wonderful Wonderful Stuff! nice sting then oh so soft cool and fresh
Result: BBS!
Conclusion: Everything I used Tonight was top notch! Lovely Products, A Very nice Vintage Blade, Lovingly Honed to My Best Ability,
All results in a very happy Ralfy! and My Alicia said "Thats a lovely Shave" AWESOME!!

Giant Shavemac Silvertip
T&H Rose SC
N. Seidman 11/16
TM Artisan Linen / Horsehide---25 / 60
Humphreys Witch Hazel
The Refinery ASB
Have a Great Night!

I don't post here often, but in honor of the nagging tweet bar, here it goes...

Pre-shave:

• shower
• rooney finest
• leftover of Al's 'cedar' sample
• 3 vintage strops: my usual vintage canvas/horsehide, Razor and Strop - Straight Razor Place Classifieds, vintage kanayama canvas/shell horsehide, i usually strop until the razors are good, but about 20-30 canvas and 30-50 leather.

Razors:

• dovo black star
• dovo kotten
• le grelot
• c-mon
• heljestrand mk32
• tv hart steel
• bengall
• my favorite wedge

Post-shave:

• SCS aftershave milk, rosa damascena sample
• a manly beverage (that may or may not have been used as a pre- pre-shave as well....)

Razor ~ 4/8ths Dubl Duck Satinedge
Brush ~ Edwin Jagger medium silvertip with clear acrylic handle
Cream ~ MÜHLE Sanddorn Shaving Cream (a.k.a. Sea Buckthorn)
AS ~ Edwin Jagger Sandalwood After Shave Lotion

Result : Nice, very nice

First Shave of 2010

Plisson 12
TZ Damascus
Coates Lime
Harris Bay Rum - Almost done with my 100ML, going to get the 500 ML
Harris Milk Old
Trumpers Marlborough Cologne