Prep: Hot shower - followed by Robeson bay rum (mentholated) beard prep method
SS/SC: Erasmic + Erasmic
Brush: Vie-Long 12326 Boar Bristle
Strop: VB Red Latigo 50 fabric; 55 leather
Razor: 5/8” Dovo “Black Star”
Astringent: Dickinson’s Witch Hazel
ASB: Barclay Crocker (Bay Rum Scent)
AS: Dominica "Bay Rum"
Result: Smooth as silk…
This particular straight razor is a sentimental favorite. It was my very first straight razor and it provided me with my very first straight razor shave. I hadn’t shaved with it for quite a while. Its been well over a year since I bought it and its due for its first free lifetime honing by SRD, but after giving it a touchup with a stropping on diamond sprayed felt and rough leather, along with a few passes on a Swaty barber’s hone and finishing with my regular strop, it shaved like a dream. This is the smoothest, closest BBS shave I’ve had in some time.