Thread: Sun July 31th - Sat August 06th

Good morning friends!
(In this week in my personal SODT: knives and razors from their homeland)

PREP: Proraso Preshave Cream

BRUSH: Mühle Sophist in olive wood

SOAP/CREAM: De Vergulde Hand Scheerzeep (Soap)

SCUTTLE / BOWL: Fitjar Lathering Up Shaving Bowl

RAZOR: 8/8" BUDDEL Custom (w/ Desert ironwood scales)

STROP: Kanayama Cordovan #30000

SHAVE: 2 passes, WTG / XTG

AS: Sir IRISCH MOOS

COLOGNE: Henkel HE EDC

RESULT: Wonderful, BBS shave

DECORATION; GERMAN KNIFE: Böker Subcom Fixed Blade CLD, by Chad Los Banos.

Have a great day all,
Béla

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: New Forest,two band
Razor: Peroux Cognet (this one`s for you Robert )
Soap: MdC
AS: Island, Bay Rum
Cologne: Ultraviolet by Paco Rabanne
Strop: Neil Miller
Result: Clean enough
Yesterdays shave, didn´t have time to post yesterday. Starting to learn the London water, but I think I´ll super lather some more though . Shave was so so, clean enough, but not like I like it

Originally Posted by Jeltz

No razor honing today but I did use my new found skills to restore and sharpen the knife. I bought it about 30 years ago aged 11 partly as an act of rebellion towards my parents who had said I couldn't have one. I was at a friends house and we went into town, I'd saved up the money and although the guy in the shop wasn't too happy about it (he offered to let me phone my parents from the shop) I bought it. When I arrived back at my fiends house his mother saw from our faces that we'd been up to something, found out and made me ring my parents. When I got home my dad had me show him it, said they would trust me to be careful with it and gave it back to, me some rebellion huh! Over the following few years it sharpened many sticks and spend a lot of time being thrown at trees. Leaving the carbon steel blade tarnished rusting and blunt, today it is shining and sharp in a way that it hasn't been for many many years. (BTW My son is 11, I offered to buy him a Swiss Army knife he declined!)

Nice story, Nic; thank you for sharing.

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Edwin Jagger best badger
Soap: Trumper's Officers & Gentlemens Shaving Soap
Strop: Tony Miller Heirloom tri-strop (3x25)
Razor: Genco Army & Navy
ASB: Geo. F. Trumper west Indian extract of limes skin food

Comfortable BBS shave.

This setup is entirely Portuguese, well, almost really.
Veleiro Shaving Cream, a wonderful cream with a musk/marine scent
Semogue 2040HD, a massive super dense slivertip badger brush, whips lather like no other
Gebr. Weyersberg «Corneta» 15/16'' straight razor, there isn't a Portuguese made straight razors, but this is the most Portuguese razor we have. Made in Solingen, Germany, specially for the Portuguese and Brazilian markets under the name «Corneta»
Musgo Real Aftershave doesn't need any intro, worldwide known for its excelence in creams and fragrances
444 Aftershave balm, one of the oldest and most popular balms here in Portugal. Specially made for dry and sensitive skins (like mine) and with a menthol kick

Prep:Hot Shower, Coconut & lime pre-shave oil
Scuttle:Dirty Bird custom double
Brush:AOS pure badger
Strop:SRD PIV English Bridle
Cream: J.M Fraser Mosswood
Razor: Filarmonica
After shave: Pinaud Clubman
EDT: Cuba Red


Result:The JM Fraser Mosswood cream takes me back to the barbershop of my youth. The scent instantly brings back memories of the well worn barber's leather chair, the slowly spinning mechanical barber's pole, and stacks upon stacks of “National Geographic” magazines. This fili is a small, yet nimble blade and performed effortlessly to deliver a BBS shave. Have a great day gentlemen!

Happy Belated Birthday Mike!

Originally Posted by DOOM

Good morning Gentlemen!!

Prep: Hot shower + Proraso pre/post
Razor: Max Sprecher ''Green Beauty'' 15/16
Brush: Vie-Long Zurito
Soap: Martin de Candre (First time with this soap and wont use another soap for a while)
AS: Speick splash
Finish: Martin de Candre Eau de Lavande (Love it!!!)

Great day to all!!

cheers
Dominic
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Nice tang on that razor and I don't know WHAT you've got in that bowl; some sort of desert obviously!

Prep: Hot Shower, Baby Oil Gel
Razor: Boker Red Injun 102
Brush: Omega Boar
Soap: Mitchell's Wool Fat
AS: Clubman Bay Rum
Finish: Pinaud Lime Sec EdC, Firehouse Wacky Tacky

Great shave! When looking through the drawer this morning, it seemed like it had been a long time since I used this razor (it hasn't really) but I could hear it calling out to me so away we went. Result: A simple, comfortable, two pass shave that more than exceeds the standards for most anywhere I will go today.

Pre-shave: Musgo glycerine soap
Brush: Shavemac DO1 24mm
Razor: "Ch Monternier Montpellier" 7/8 extra hollow
Strop: Scrupleworks
Soap: Valobra
Bowl: Schwarzweisskeramiek extra large
A/S or astringent: Gold Dachs
A/S balm: no
Alum: no
Cologne: no
Moisturizer: Clinique M lotion
Comments: Internet reveals that Charles Monternier is a Montpellier perfume maker, established in 1869 and still in business today. Doubt they still sell straights though BBS shave.

Originally Posted by BladeRunner001

Razor/Blade: Merkur 39C Slant + Bolzano Superinox Inossidabile blades
but I must confess that as much as I loved this shave, I really prefer my straight...I get a much smoother and enjoyable shaves from them than a DE.

I know what you mean mate. DE's have their place, I find them great for my head and also for a travel razor when travelling light, but you just cant bet the good old Straight.

Originally Posted by Birnando

Razor:Charlie Lewis, 8/8" Custom. Mammoth Ivory scales

I love that Lewis, what a stunner

Originally Posted by thewatermark

RAZOR: Case Temperite

Beautiful photo mate, and razor too.

Originally Posted by mjhammer

Ok, guys, 2 parter here. First, today is my birthday, and the wife and son went way overboard for me, encouraging me in my shaving addictions, LOL.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and congratulations on your haul and your wife's enthusiasm, I hope it continues for many more years

Originally Posted by eTom

soap: Calani
brush: Muehle
razor: Wostenholm
hat: Barmah (Australia)

Awesome hat Tom, you must look like Indiana Jones in that.

Originally Posted by fonthunter

Good morning friends!
(In this week in my personal SODT: knives and razors from their homeland)

RAZOR: 8/8" BUDDEL Custom (w/ Desert ironwood scales)
DECORATION; GERMAN KNIFE: Böker Subcom Fixed Blade CLD, by Chad Los Banos.

I'm not kidding Bela, when I scrolled down and saw this pic my heart rate accelerated. Both the razor and knife are absolutely beautiful. WOW.


No shave for me tonight, I touched up my Wade & Butcher and want to test it on a 2 day growth so I'll leave it until tomorrow.
Thanks for all the outstanding posts and pics gentlemen.
Grant