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

German razors:

Good morning friends!

A beautiful themed SOTD-week with outstanding articles and pictures. Thanks at all for sharing your photographies.

My personal SOTD:

soap: Calani
brush: Muehle
razor: Revisor
AS: Old Spice

Have a nice day

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: Henckels Friodor 8/8 Spanish point w/ mammoth ivory scales
ASB: Caswell-Massey Newport

Comfortable shave.

Blade,
Thanks for all nice comments. You are a good sport.

Chip

Originally Posted by nicknbleeding

Great combination!

Great choice Bill and let's not forget: ****HAPPY BIRTHDAY buddy****. It's your BIG 40 today.
Happy Birthday Bill!!!! Its all uphill from here.

Thank you Rene (and Robert), I also thought ZZ Top worked well together with the Red Imp

YES - Congratulations Bill, BIG time!

Good morning.

Friday:

Gillette : Wilkinson : Simpson : MWF : Floid : Henriksen : Hermes



Perfect match (scent-wise) between the moisturizer and the perfume. This is not to fool one though, as the Ole Henriksen cream feels a tad heavy, at least after first use.
The only addition to make the whole set more balanced scent-wise would be the EJ Sea Buckthorn shaving cream/soap and to replace the Italian Blue Floid with something else.

An excellent shave, once again.

Here comes the weekend!

This has been an amazing week, with tons of great shots and beautiful equipment.
Thanks to all of you for being so inspiring!!

After a lengthy session on the hones last night, this razor finally caved and ended up with a wonderfully smooth and sharp edge, so it just had to be the choice of this German day.
She has some patina and signs of neglect to her, but the steel is all good, and she will be cared for from now on.

Prep: a quick shower
Cream: Penhaligons Opus 1870
Brush: Plisson HMV #16, 2 band in horn
Razor: Edmund Bergfeld, Globusmen Gold #44
Strop: Kanayama Llama brand, #90000 tri strop.
Astringent: Thayer's Med Sup Haz
ASB: Penhaligons Opus 1870
EdT: Penhaligons Opus 1870




I'm ready for the weekend after this shave.
Have a great weekend guys!

last evenings Shave. I fell asleep before I posted. The time change kicks my ass.

Hot shower
Warm Oil
Hannah Ceramic
Badger brush
AOS Lavender Shave Cream
Centaur Sperry and Alexander of New York
AOS Aluminum
Vaseline for men

I ran this razor through the progression from on the Norton stones,4K to 8K. Finished with a few laps on the Naniwa 12K. She was very sharp but coarse I think. The razor cut through the whiskers with no problem it just seemed to irritate my skin.
Don't know if it was me or the edge left by the 12K.

Hot Shower
J Wiss and Sons Cosmo
Semogue 1305
Speick shavestick
Alum Block/Witch Hazel
Crusellas Colonia 1800 Sandalwood

Great Friday shave, both errant razors have now redeemed themselves. Maybe it was an errant operator to begin with.

Prep:Hot Shower
Brush:TGN 24mm Super Silvertip in Crimson Swirl
Strop:SRD PIV English Bridle
Cream:Goodfellas Bomb
Razor: Henckles 401 (just finished the restoration last night, read about it here)
After shave: Alt Innsbrook
EDT: Cuba Red


Result: I've been working on this razor all week so I would have a Henckles for today. The shave was SWEET! 3 passes & BBS. I'm not going to lie, I'm very proud of myself on this one (especially the honing as she was dull as a spoon and now is wicked sharp)

The razors on display this week are STUNNING! :dropjaw

Well done everyone :

Glenn

Wow, well done Glenn!

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Shavemac D01 two band
Razor: Henckels Friodur
Soap and AS: Tabac
Strops. Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean
Not only was everything German today (even my MWF scuttle ... hmm, the scales where made by Max though, but that´s a German name, lol), it was an excellent shave and excellent gear and LARGE aswell. That´s a 300 ml Tabac bottle and the brush has a 30 mm knot and even though the blade is huge too, it shaves me very well