Thread: SOTD July 16 - July 22

Hot Shower

6/8 Dovo Special
Vulfix 374 silvertip
Tony Miller strop
Taylor's Lavender cream
Michelsen's Bay Rum

Very close shave.


Terry

Saturday

Hot Shower

6/8 Dorko
Feather Pre shave
silvertip badger brush
cremo cream

Old Spice

Rooney small type 1 brush
D. R. Harris Arlington soap
7/8 Henckels Friodur, with Oryx scales
D. R. Harris face milk
T&H 1805

The razor is a recent arrival from John Crowley, the scales were done by Robert Williams.

Sunday

Hot Shower
Proraso Pre Shave
Saville Row brush
Arizona Goats Milk Soap
Tony Miller Strop
6/8 Gebhardt Schmidt John Crowley
3/8 Henckels Friodur (NOS Ebay)
Dominica Bay Rum Aftershave

That little Henckels works great under your nose. And touch up.

Hot Shower

5/8 Supplee Hardware spike
Vulfix 374 silvertip
Tony Miller strop
Trumper's Violet cream
Pinaud Lime Sec


Terry

Rooney small type 1 brush
T&H Grafton cream
7/8 square point Friodur with Oryx scales
D. R. Harris face milk
T&H 1805

Monday

Hot Shower

4/8 Fermarud
Proraso pre shave
silvertip badger brush
C&E Nomad shave cream

Pinaud Bay Rum

Super smooth shave and a great scent. I love the Nomad..

Hot Shower
C&E Sienna hard soap
Burma Shave cheap synthetic brush
5/8 spike black king
proraso a/s
TGQ Oak and Moss

Fiancee is waffling on whether she likes this a/s or not. Some days she does, some she doesn't. I like it a lot but she keeps changing her vote

The cheap brush I have works great for hard soaps but it's a dog for creams.

Once again, the black king makes me go "oooh" and gives me every bit as good a shave as my "top" razors (revisor, dubl duck, W&B etc) without being all flashy. Between this razor, the tuckmar and the gencos I'm becoming a big fan of american-made razors.

-- Gary F.

Proraso preshave and cream.

Trumpers Badger brush

6/8 Puma (very nice)

Old Spice

2 passes, babies butt finish.

All is right with the world.

Gary

Rooney style 1 small finest brush
D. R. Harris Arlington soap
9/16 Neistrom French point
D. R. Harris face milk
Penhaligon Blenheim Bouquet

The little Neistrom shaves surprisingly well indeed. It doesn't quite tackle my goatee area with the aplomb of my 7/8ths and 8/8ths blades, but it was surprisingly close. It's plenty sharp enough, but the lower mass made the blade more prone to submarining. It made it though the shave without needing some stropping which is a feat only the Friodur's have pulled off so far.

I don't know if this is common for the sub-5/8ths blades, but this thing is like a 9/10ths scale razor, it's very petite in all dimensions -- the blade is only 2 3/4 inches long, and from tip to tail is just over 5 inches.