Sunday, 12.5.10
A thoroughly British shave..
Hot Towel prep
Mitchell's Wool Fat
Simpson's Colonel X2L Ehsan
W.H. Morley & Sons Clover Brand Square Point
SRD Premium I Strop ... 60 Linen/60 Leather
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Nivea AS Balm
Pinaud Lilac Vegetal
The setting is Olde London Towne, in front of the home of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge. The year... 1843 shortly before Christmas... The cast listed above.
I can only imagine that all the great Britishers in history, such as Winston Churchill, have started the day that led to their finest hour using Mitchell's Wool Fat and a brush by Simpson's... It seems only fitting. The Lilac Vegetal evokes images of Winnie pondering the fate of the British people, in their most desperate hour, in an English Garden. Decisions that affected the entire world!
The Morley blade has arrived, and I'm getting a glimpse of that infamous "coticule edge.." Who could have imagined this $20 e-bay special could achieve such lofty heights of sharpness and smoothness. We'll now move onto another blade.
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