Thread: Sun March 13th - Sat March 19th - THEMED SOTD

Good morning friends!
As you know, I'm a poor boy and have no US-razors.

But I own other US-blades. Here you get the Recon Tanto by Cold Steel... an amazing combat-knive.

My personal SOTD:
soap: Calani- Cadre Noir-stick
brush: the new Muehle-travel-brush with new bristles
razor: S. Pearson & Co Sheffield
AS: Brut

BTW: I never had a shave with this Tanto

Tabac -- Omega Boar -- FON Golden Star 6/8 -- Tabac AS



Pictured are all of my Japanese blades, and also a Blackbird Twin Reflex 135.

Originally Posted by eTom

Good morning friends!
As you know, I'm a poor boy and have no US-razors.

But I own other US-blades. Here you get the Recon Tanto by Cold Steel... an amazing combat-knive.

BTW: I never had a shave with this Tanto

I have US razor: HartSteel, but I don't shave today. I'm only honing.
...and I own others US-blades too. Here you can see some of them.

Cheers,
fonti

Originally Posted by fonthunter

I have US razor: HartSteel, but I don't shave today. I'm only honing.
...and I own others US-blades. Here you can see some of them.

Cheers,
fonti

Excellent knife-collection. Congrats!

Thanks Tom!
fonti

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Martinez' Custom: Chess King w/ 26mm silver tip badger
Soap: Mama Bear's Ye Olde Barbershoppe
Strop: Tony Miller Heirloom tri-strop (3x25)
Razor: Winchester 5/8
ASB: Caswell-Massey No. Six
soundtrack: The Mamas and the Papas - California Dreamin'

Smooth shave.

Barbasol Razor (drives like a 52 Caddy)/
Gillette Super Stainless (They don’t make em like they use to)/
Old Spice mug with Arko (sorry no Williams)/
Turkish Horsehair Brush ( Not US, but a darn Cool brush)/
Aqua Velva in an Avon decanter (I hate the new plastic bottles.)/

I thought about using a US straight, but to me the Barbasol is a fine example of a US razor. This thing is Big, heavy and aggressive, It’s not very nimble and requires a gentle touch. The Vintage Gillette Super Stainless blades are my favorite blades, but my stock is running low. Luckily with hand stropping , I can usually get around 10+ shaves out of one.. It was a total BBS 4 star shave. A little on the aggressive side, the AV felt like fireworks on the 4th of July.

Great Pictures as always, and have a great US Steel shave.

American day today!
I got up real early and had a bit of a struggle selecting the right tool for this mornings shave.
I finally settled on this one, I admit, it is a one of a kind, but hey, still American
(and I wanted an opportunity to show it off, I think it is a really beautiful blade)


Prep: Hot shower
Soap: DR Harris Arlington
Strop: MickR's 'Roo strop
Brush: Simpson Persian Jar 2, 22mm Silvertip. My very first!
Razor: Joe Chandler 8/8 Spanish point.
Astringent: Thayers Medicated SuperHazel
ASB: DR Harris Arlington
EdT: DR Harris Arlington



This shave was the perfect start of the day. Perfectly smooth and smelling goood

Have a great Thursday Gentlemen.

(I hope you see Viggo better today, Robert )

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Simpson PJ 3
Razor Red Imp
Soap and AS/cologne: Pro Bilghty´s Grapewood
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very clean
The good ol professors stuff looks like wild west gear to me and you can see the Red Imps holster too - American shave today and ZZ Top as soundtrack (worked perfect as stropping music) . Close and very nice shave and Martins stuff smells wonderfull. I got a couple of tiny nicks, but that didn´t bother me much.

Originally Posted by eTom

As you know, I'm a poor boy and have no US-razors.

Well Tom, we are going to just have to send you one since I shave all the time with German razors.

Originally Posted by nubskillz

Tabac -- Omega Boar -- FON Golden Star 6/8 -- Tabac AS
Pictured are all of my Japanese blades, and also a Blackbird Twin Reflex 135.

Never too late. Nice hardware!!