Thread: SOTD - 'HOBBY THEME' - Sun Mar 21sth - Sat Mar 27th

King Midas | Truefitt & Hill Silvertip | Cella | Saint Charles Shave Aspect

Razor Wade and Butcher 'For Barber's Use" / Soap MWF+ Crabtree and Evelyn's Nomad / ASB Nivea + Coenzyme / Splash SPEICK

Results Excellence!

Part of my addiction to the ocean, between surfing, scuba diving, and keeping a coral reef, I give you my favorite beach in the whole world, to those who know it's called Hemlocks, very very secluded, long 1 mile walk down to the beach through sand and brush. I have surfed some amazing waves here, and probably the closest I ever felt to nature/god.

Prep: Wash face with glycerin soap, massage Cremo Cream into beard followed by hot
towel.
Brush: Barbershop Badger/Boar Combo (my father’s brush).
Cream: Musgo Real.
Razor: Filarmonica Doble Temple #13.
Post: Thayer’s Witch Hazel, Musgo Real Splash & Balm.

A real treat. I use my father’s brush only once or twice a year, so those shaves are always special.
I’ve been experimenting with the Cremo during pre-shave preparation. I’m currently undecided.
I’m sparing you another fly rod photo and went conventional tonight.

Hot Shower followed by a very relaxing shaving using CO Bigelow cream, EJ Badger, SRD Red Latigo/Web 25/50, Filarmonica 13 and Aqua Velva Ice Blue.

The Hobby for today, Scuba Diving, Lobstering to be exact. There are a couple of bugs in the catch bag.

• STROPS: Illionois 827, Dovo "3 finish leather. passes, 35 linen, 50 leather, 35 finish leather.
• PRE-SHAVE PREP: Hot shower, pre-shave oil, lather, hot towel, re-lather, shave.
• PRE-SHAVE OIL: C-F pre-shave oil.
• S/SOAP: G.F.T- Coconut.
• S/CREAM: G.F.T.- Coconut. GLYCERIN: 5 drops = Uber-lather.
• BRUSH: C-M Pewter Super Silver Tip.
• RAZOR: H. BOKER, The Celebrated, 7/8 hollow, spanish point. WTG, XTG, ATG passes.
• POST SHAVE TREATMENT: Hot towel, CWR, astringent, A/S, A/S balm, EDT.
• ASTINGENT: Thayer's Witch hazel w/ aloe vera {white label} not pictured.
• A/S: Ogallala Bay Rum & Sandlewood.
• A/S BALM: G.F.T. Sandlewood skin food.
• EDT: C-E Sandlewood.
• RESULT: Very nice BBS shave.
• HOBBY #3 SWORDS: Scotish Claymore, with wood handle, 420- stainless steel blade. Japanese Katana, high carbon steel blade.

Razor: Schuzle 'Pizza Box'
Brush: Simpson c-3 bb
Lather: Lea M
Aftershave: Pinaud Clubman's Bay Rum




Hobby: Espresso
Machine: Dalla Corte Mini
Grinders: La Cimbali Max Hybrid,
Mazzer Major (Decaf)

Razor: Thomas Turner(my first full restoration including pins)
Marbles: Various Vintage Akro Agate, Christensen agate and German Handmades.

C.O. Bigelow Pre-Shave Oil
C.O. Bigelow Cream
TOBS Bay Rum
Glycerin
Dovo Silvertip
C.V. Heljestrad - MK No. 4 - 11/16
Thayer's Lemon
Stephan Bay Rum

Hobby #3: Cigars. I collect, so to speak, and enjoy cigars. Typically with a bourbon or scotch. I currently have just over 500 various stoges in various humidors either at home or my office. Pictured here we have a wonderful Ashton VSG Belicoso No. 1 with Dominican filler and a rich Ecuadorean sun-grown wrapper. This cigar has been in my humidor for probably a year and a half. The amber liquid the VSG rests above is my all time favorite bourbon, Blanton's Original Single Barrel.


ISO-200 | f.2.8 | 1/8s | 6mm | no flash

It has been a fun week gentlemen. I thank you.

Sometimes the pen is mightier than the sword.

True, This! —
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! —
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —
States can be saved without it! - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, "Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy" (1839)

Another hobby of mine is collecting pens--especially fountain pens.

Dubl Duck - Goldedge / Omega – Gold Silvertip / Cella - Crema Da Barba / J & E Atkinsons - I Coloniali / J & E Atkinsons – I Coloniali

Blade: 8/8 Henckels Friodur
Soap: D.R. Harris Marlborough
Brush: Penworks
Aftershave: Alum Block / SCS Mediterranean Citrus
Cologne: Floris JF EdT
Music: Pat Metheny - The Way Up