Thread: SOTD - Sun May 30th - Sat June 05th

Originally Posted by sfcablecar

Blade-O-Rama

Very nice. You can have Vanna spin that to see which razor to use for the day.

Originally Posted by RayG

Very nice. You can have Vanna spin that to see which razor to use for the day.

Ha!

Ray, love the Mappin & Webb set! A beauty!

Originally Posted by RayG

And so the Blind Test begins...

Mappin & Webb 6/8 #1
No stropping
Rooney 1/2 Finest
Wool Fat
Harris Pink
Caraceni EDT

Excellent shave, as with other razors honed by Glen. Will have to wait till #2 at least, to have some point of comparison, but I think it will be hard to improve on this edge.

Very classy shot!

Monday, 5.31.10 Memorial Day

A wee dram today in honor of all our servicemen and women... Those still amongst us and those that have gone on before to preserve the freedoms we enjoy today... God bless them all...

Pre Shave Oil
Williams Shave Soap
Vintage Dubl-Duck brush
R. Helliwell Crystal blade
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Ivy Club Spice AS

A "back to basics, mind the budget shave" today..

$.99 Williams Shave Soap, $1.69 Vi-John Old Spice clone AS and a 9/16 Helliwell razor that no one ever heard of... All combined for a great shave!

Hot Shower
SRD Red Latigo/Web 25/50
TOBS Sandalwood Soap
Dovo Special
Old Spice

Result very smooth BBS!!

Happy Memorial Day Everyone!!

Monday Evenings Shave
For Amund, Keep At It Buddy, I Bet It Feels Good To Be Home.


Location: 52° 45' 55.10460 - 0° 57' 31.22065
Hot Wash: Proraso Sul Filo Rasoio
Pre Shave: Proraso Crema Prebarba
Shave Cream: Lea
Brush: Edwin Jagger Super Badger
Razor: Grah Plumacher #14 in Beechwood
Strop: Dovo 20 Canvas, 60 Leather
Post Shave: Cold Water Rinse
Astringent: Thayers Witch Hazel
ASB: Lea
AS: Pinaud Clubman

Result: L'amour soit avec vous vitesse de dieux d'Amund!!



SHAVE ON!!

Prep: Hot shower--followed by Robeson bay rum beard prep
Brush: Omega Lucretia Borgia Series “Best Silvertip”
SS/SC: Valobra (Menthol) + Ingram = Superlather
Strop: VB Red Latigo--50 fabric; 60 leather
Razor: 5/8 Dovo “Black Star”
Astringent: Thayer’s Original Witch Hazel w/ Aloe Vera
ASB: Zirh “Soothe”Post-shave lotion
AS: Booster “Polar Ice”
Result: Well done…

SOTD Monday May 31, 2010 Memorial Day

Razor: 5/8 Joseph Allen "Our Best Make" NON-XLL Round Point - In Cherry
Shaving Cream: Cyril E. Slater - Wild Rose
Lather Bowl and scuttle: Ceramic
Brush: Custom 28MM Rosewood Silvertip
ASB: Nivea Replenishing
Aftershave/Cologne: British Sterling

Got a nick on my neck this morning as I was having a special Memorial Day shave. I was thinking of something else and wasn't concentrating on shaving. It quit bleeding by the water pass but, some wounds are never healed. Remember our Veterans today and those who have gone before us.

Hot Shower
Wade and Butcher Wedge
VDH Boar
Palmolive Shavestick
Mentholated Witch Hazel
Brut Splash On
A month ago I considered this razor the dog of the fleet. While it never gave really bad shaves, they were just never all that good. I was always anxious to get this razor's turn over and move back to the hollow grounds. Lately though, I've noticed an up turn in preformance. I've begun just stropping the hell out of all my razors and I suspect this is the result. Today's shave was off the chain though. Without question the finest two pass shave I've had from anything, anywhere, anytime. In retrospect, I think all those "just OK" shaves were the edge just kind of struggling to get where it needed to be. With all the recent stropping it seems to have arrived. I used to wonder what all the fuss about wedges was, now I know. They take a ton of patience to get the edge right but once it's there, it is absolutely ridiculous how good these things shave.

Razor: T Hessen Bruch & Co 11/16s
Cream: JMFrasur
Strop: TM Linen, latigo, horse
AS: BOOSTERS Iced Limes

Result: Perfection, as Warranted by the Bear who Bears Inspection