Thread: SOTD - Sun October 3rd - Sat October 9th

Jeff,
One heck of a week man...I started feeling how tired you must have been just by reading about it.

Glad you're home though...is that you in the pictures, in between your daughters (I assume)? Great picture

Originally Posted by Mvcrash

Leave Home last Sunday @ 4 AM. Arrive Oklahoma City 10 AM. Work all week on assignment until 5PM Friday afternoon. Scamper over to the Airport to make a 6PM flight into Chicago. Get delayed 50 minutes on the Chicago to Newark flight but finally arrive in my home @ 2AM. Take a quick nap and wake @4am. Drive the wife to State College PA, for Parents weekend at Penn State. Spend weekend with wife and youngest daughter. Sunday afternoon drive home (4 hrs) and finally get to relax.

I don't travel with a straight so it was a multi-blade all week coupled with a bumpy rash. NO shave over the weekend.

Hot Shower, scrub face with Gentleman's Best cold pressed soap.
Warm oil
Castle Forbes SC
Dirty Bird Scuttle
Badger Brush
Wade and Butcher, Celebrated ( my favorite razor)
SRD Premium 1, Stropped 50 on pressed felt and 100 on Leather
AOS Aluminum
Thayers
Aramis Post Shave Balm

I earned this shave. It was wonderful. Passed the BBT with flying colors. Now off to read the 1100 posts I missed on the SRP this week

I wasn't planning on posting a SOTD, but when I broke out the Top Flight for a shave I had no idea it would end this good. So, I had to share it with everyone.

Razor: Top Flight 6/8
Soap: Klar Kabinett
Brush: Col Conk
AS: Clubman Bay Rum
ASB: Proraso cream

Oh, it was BBS too.

Originally Posted by BladeRunner001

Ooooohhhh...That is an amazing beer. Wife and I love it

Here is Seattle, you can get it on tap... life if good.

WOW! You really earned it. Great pictures of your kids.

Rene

Originally Posted by Mvcrash

Leave Home last Sunday @ 4 AM. Arrive Oklahoma City 10 AM. Work all week on assignment until 5PM Friday afternoon. Scamper over to the Airport to make a 6PM flight into Chicago. Get delayed 50 minutes on the Chicago to Newark flight but finally arrive in my home @ 2AM. Take a quick nap and wake @4am. Drive the wife to State College PA, for Parents weekend at Penn State. Spend weekend with wife and youngest daughter. Sunday afternoon drive home (4 hrs) and finally get to relax.

I don't travel with a straight so it was a multi-blade all week coupled with a bumpy rash. NO shave over the weekend.

Hot Shower, scrub face with Gentleman's Best cold pressed soap.
Warm oil
Castle Forbes SC
Dirty Bird Scuttle
Badger Brush
Wade and Butcher, Celebrated ( my favorite razor)
SRD Premium 1, Stropped 50 on pressed felt and 100 on Leather
AOS Aluminum
Thayers
Aramis Post Shave Balm

I earned this shave. It was wonderful. Passed the BBT with flying colors. Now off to read the 1100 posts I missed on the SRP this week

Boy did i need a relaxing shave. I decided to try the Dorko i got from the bay a few weeks ago. Sharp but just not enough. Well i brought a back up. My Dovo Bismarck 5/8 in bone scales.

Tony Miller Strop
Caswell Massey Almond soap
Dovo Bismarck
Thayers witch hazel
skin food
TAOS Balm

Prep: Hot shower
Strop: SRD Premium IV Bridle 25 webbing/50 leather
Brush: TGN custom silvertip in a cherry wood handle I turned
Scuttle: SRD
Uberlather: TGQ Black Cavendish, AOS Sandalwood cream, 4 drops glycerin
Razor: Wostenholm Pipe
Result: Wow! So close, so smooth, it's like I'm in a dream. The smell from the lather was intoxicating also. The black cavendish mixed with the sandalwood to form a sweet and sultry concoction of pure relaxation.

So I started to play around with photoshop, the scales in this pic have 1 small chip, but they are not chewed up as this pic makes it appear...I just can't draw a straight line with a mouse when editing

Enjoy your day!

Good morning Gentleman.
No these are no coconuts! I don't live in CA/ FL, but in Germany.
We'll fly to FL in november... there are enough palms.
These are conkers from a chestnut.

soap: Thiers Issard
brush: Muehle silvertip
razor: Charlex
AS: Old Spice



Have a nice day.

Pre: Hot shower
Razor: Kanirck
Brush: Ikon chubby 24 mm silvertip
Soap: Nannys Eucalyptus
AS: Dr Harris Sandalwood
Strop: Neil Miller
Result: Clean
Odd ball razor, I think it says "for sensible beard". Have to shave a cople of more times with it to decide, but it´s a fair enough blade, I think.

Originally Posted by BladeRunner001

Jeff,
One heck of a week man...I started feeling how tired you must have been just by reading about it.

Glad you're home though...is that you in the pictures, in between your daughters (I assume)? Great picture

Yep, that was/is me when the girls were younger and I needed a shave!! The one on the left is the one in the cheering photo and the one on the right is the one we visited this weekend.
I was happy to be home last night. I am usually good with the travel and the weather in OKC this past week was wonderful.

Off today so I'll relax and go buy some sand paper and try my hand at polishing a razor.

I usually post SOTD's featuring new razor acquisitions on Sunday, but I was away at a professional conference until yesterday. So here goes with yet another addition to my straight razor rotation.

Prep: Hot shower--followed by Robeson (mentholated) bay rum beard prep
Brush: Simpsons Chubby 2 “Super Badger”
SC: Penhaligon’s “Blenheim Bouquet”
Strop: No strop today…Razor shave ready
Razor: 5/8 Dovo “Fritz Bracht”
Astringent: Thayer’s Original Witch Hazel
ASB: Nivea for Men “Sensitive”
EDT: Penhaligon’s “Blenheim Bouquet”
Result: Wunderbar!

This "Fritz Bracht" Dovo, acquired on ebay from a barber's estate, is a sweet shaver--after I got it restored and honed. Combined with the Penhaligon's shaving cream it delivered one of the best shaves I've experienced in quite a while.