Class act move, very decent and good of you!! Nice Smith cleaver, by the way :)
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Location: Coffs Harbour AustraliaHave a great weekend guys.
Strop: Illinois 835
Cream: Tabac
Razor: Custom Simmons Barbers Pet 5/8
Astringent: Dickinson's Witch Hazel
A/S: Old Spice
Result: I took this one back to the hones today. Much better result on tonights shave. Two and a half passes and a Smooooth result.
Grant
Rene,
What a moving story. First, I hope your friend recovers well and quickly. I will keep him in my thoughts. Second, this speaks volumes of your character. A small act carries such tremendous impact! I am proud to be able to call you a friend. Third, I commend your choice of hardware/software for this most important task. Excellent choices all around, and what a way to remind him he is a man than to finish off a straight shave with some vetiver! BRAVO!
I must second that thought! Phenomenal shave, Mikael!
Great minds must think alike, I was just sending you a PM!
Well this is the first shave of the day to post in the new year :)
My set up;
Razor : Dubl Duck
Soap : SRD Lime
Astringent : Alum + Witch Hazel
ASB : GFT Limes Skin Food
Brush : Artamis
Well just before christmas I got the scuttle you see from steven at Studio Pottery, good guy, great scuttle and I intend to be ordering me a custom scuttle from hime soon for my bigger brushes :)
So I, knowing that I had today off, sat last night with my 12K and refreshed the edge on the dubl duck (it had needed it for a bit) and just to make sure it was ok I had a quick shave :p
Well today I got up, knowing my razor was back to it's good ole self, I had a long hot shower, I even lathered up in the shower and let it sit a while, then I came out and took my lovely warm scuttle and built up a lather, then I replaced the hot water in the scuttl with very hot water and began my shave.
Now I did something different today, usually I go up on my neck first ans it appears to me thats the growth direction, however i've been gettinga sore neck and ingrowns, so I decided reverse order was up for a try (this was a success).
Well I finished my shave with the ceremonial three passes, and my result was an awesome shave :) maybe one of my best so far :p
Also I never knew just how good hot scuttle lather could be.
Pre: Hot shower
Brush: Ronney Victorian
Razors: John Nesbitīs, hand forged in Sheffield + Swedish DE Eterna for head
Soap: Nannys Ice and a Slice
AS+EDT: Pacco Rabanne Ultraviolet
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean face :)
The head is very clean too, but this DE razor is AGRESSIVE - 5 or 6 nicks and after the first three I started to do some searious stretching of the skin, still got a couple of more nicks :soapbox: These Gilette blades are to sharp for this one, Sharks works, still very agressive, but I didnīt get any nicks from them. Fantastic shave with the Nesbit though, very nice blade and Nannys soap was spot on combined with the Ronney and face lathering! :)
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Great razor and excellent photo Mikael! :tu
Cheers,
fonti