Thread: SOTD - Sun July 25th - Sat July 31st

6/8 TI Le Grelot
Czech & Speake №88
Crabtree & Evelyn Brush
444
Adidas Dynamic Pulse

Great pics gentlemen!!

Originally Posted by Mikael

Pre: Hot Shower

Brush: New Forest
Razor: Le Grelot
Soap/cream: EJ cream + Palmolive stick
Post: Proraso
AS: Old Spice Musk
Result: Nice one

Two nicks, Shams edge keeps on holding and scary nice edge :-). Lather was a very nice combo, Edwin Jagger + Palmolive = super slick

Originally Posted by jhenry

Prep: Hot shower--followed by Robeson bay rum beard prep method
Brush: Simpsons Chubby 2 “Super badger”
SS/SC: Erasmic + Cella
Strop: No strop today. Razor shave ready.
Razor: 11/16 Wade & Butcher
Astringent: Thayers Original Witch Hazel
ASB: Zirh “Soothe”
AS: Booster “Polar Ice”
Result:

Originally Posted by BladeRunner001

Pre-Shave: None

Razor: 5/8" Dubl Duck Special #1, Spike Point

Brush: 22mm Vulfix Super Badger

Überlather: CarrieM Bay Rum Creme + Trumper's violet soap + squirt of glycerin

Astringent: Thayers Witch Hazel

Post-Shave: Trumper's Sandalwood Skin Food, Trumper's Moisturizer

Cologne: Trufitt & Hill Grafton 1805

Result: Fabulous shave. And I am loving my überlather.

Have a great shave guys

Originally Posted by BlacknTan

Sunday, 7.25.10

Aura Glow as a Pre Shave Oil
Palmolive Shave Cream
Semogue #830
Weyersberg Corneta 078 1/2
Tony Miller strop 35 Linen/60 Leather
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Nivea AS Balm
Lucky Tiger Aspen AS

The Corneta is one of the best shavers I've got, and super smooth to boot... It's always a pleasure!

When the hot weather hit's like this, I try to think cool thoughts, so here's another from Robert Service.. from "The Men that Don't Fit In"

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.

Originally Posted by mbeem

6/8 TI Le Grelot
Czech & Speake №88
Crabtree & Evelyn Brush
444
Adidas Dynamic Pulse

Great pics gentlemen!!

Great shots all around this morning Gentlemen! Some beautiful razors being used today!

(I had a heck of a learning experience today, my 1st use of a barber's hone!)
W.H. Sample & Sons "Our Chief"
Boss Barber hone (5x)
CeOx on leather (25x)
Santa Maria Novella shave cream
Pure Badger Brush
DB Scuttle
Witch Hazel
HUGE step closer to BBS!

PREP: hot shower with face conditioner scrub
RAZOR: Genco "easy aces" round point
BRUSH: custom nib
SOAP: C.O. Bigelow
ASTRINGENT: Thayer's Superhazel
ASB: Aqua Velva Balm
EDT: Cool Water
RESULT: Fantastic!!!! These Easy Aces take an extremely sharp edge, and a sweet smooth shave!!!

LOVE THE PICS THIS WEEK GENTLEMAN AND ITS ONLY SUNDAY!!!

Stroker asked me about Florena products.
Yes, this products were produced in Germany- in Saxony, where I live.
Florena products are cheap, but very good.
Also the brush (Muehle) is a saxony product.
Have a nice sunday, Gents

SOTD Sunday July 25, 2010

Razor: 5/8 Tiger Wedge Hollow Point
Shaving Cream: Musgo Real
Lather Bowl: Ceramic
Scuttle: RAB Ceramic
Brush: Medium Badger
ASB: Nivea Replenishing
Aftershave: Mennen Original Skin Bracer

Super BBS shave this morning! (Probably because I shaved so late yesterday afternoon) AAR, slicker than frog smot on a doorknob! LOL The Musgo real shave cream performed great this morning. My observation of it realized that elusive factor I call cushion. The Musgo Real had it. I could feel the razors edge moving across the skin but there was a softness that I didn't feel with the shaving soaps (except the Ogallala) that IMHO I consider the cushion. I wouldn't say the Musgo had a lot of slipperiness but it didn't feel as dry or as heavy as the soaps either. (Probably the Bentonite clay used in the soaps gives it that heaviness.) I'm not sure what the base is in the Musgo. It doesn't say on the packaging. I love this shaving cream! Not only does it perform great the scent of the Musgo is well worth the price of the tube! Wonderful scent, good performance and great price; one of my favorite creams! Great shaves shown this week by all Gentlemen. Thanks for sharing!

EJ BBB
77 Slim Super Adjustable w/Gillette Bleue
The Soap Opera Sandalwood+Bay Rum
Aveda MEN ASB
C&S Cuba

Haydn Randall & Co. 5/8
Semogue 2009 LE #19
Mama Bear's Dublin Tweed ss
Thayers Astringent WH w/ aloe
Three Crowns Indian Sandalwood a/s balm
SCS Sandalwood Edt

After another day off from shaving (I like to take a day off after a BBS shave) led me to the Haydn Randall, a square point Solingen that's part of my rotation that does not get used as much as others (maybe then it's not part of my rotation?). Be that as it may, a very good shave with the Mama Bear's glycerin soap that purports to resemble the Green Irish Tweed scent ( I wouldn't know). I like the lather I can produce with it and used it for a head shave as well. The Three Crowns goes a long way and decided to stick with the sandalwood with the SCS Edt, always a favorite.

Bergischer Löwe 5/8" | D.R. Harris Arlington | Kent BLK-2

Great shave today.
Wade and butcher "For barber use only" The beast
Vestavia Brush
CarrieM Cream Tony Miller strop
Thayers Lavender witch hazel
TAOS Balm