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

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!!

Originally Posted by Mvcrash

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

No! Thanks!
I have enough razors.
But I've only one German razor and no one from USA.

If you like, please send me 5-10 NOS Fili or 10-20 NOS Wade & Butcher, or some beauties from Max!

Torrey "Army" | Bomb Saigon | Semogue Custom Boar | Thayers Rose | Bomb Saigon ASB | Creed Green Irish Tweed

I only have one piece of American Steel, so here she is... I hadn't brought out the Saigon in a while, but figured the label matched the real theme of the day, and the Green IRISH Tweed was a no brainer!

Great SOTD images this week gentlemen!

Happy St. Patricks day to all!

Hot Shower
Frederick Reynolds Skinny
Semogue 1305
Mitchell's Wool Fat/ C.O. Bigelow
Alum Block/ Aqua Velva
Ed Hardy Knock Off Cologne

Wow! Shaves like this will definitely handle any existential funk you might find yourself in. Definitely nothing wrong with this razor. After a 2 pass shave, I'm BBS. First time ever with superlather and I think this is a good combination. It had been a while since I had visited with my old buddy Aqua Velva so that was nice too.

SODT -- Friday

PREP: Proraso Preshave Cream
BRUSH: SIMPSON Polo 10 Best Badger
SOAP/CREAM: La Toja Shave Cream
SCUTTLE: Georgetown Pottery Scuttle
STROP: Kanayama Cordovan #30000
RAZOR: J.A. Henckels Friodur 8/8"
SHAVE: 2 passes, WTG / XTG
AS: L'occitane Vetyver EDT
RESULT: excellent, BBS



Have a nice weekend all!

Bela,

another beautiful razor!
congrats

Razor : 8/8 Henckels Friodur
Brush : Simpson "Chubby" #2
SS : Palmolive Stick
AS : Thayers
EDT : Caron Yatagan



Amund