Thread: Sun August 14th - Sat August 20th

Saturday 20th

Double Duck 4/8 wedge
Neil Miller linen/English bridle strops (40/60)
SWK XL
Vie-Long horsehair barbers pro
Acca Kappa 1869 veggie
Thann Shiso after shave lotion
Santa Maria Novella Emulsione Analcolica



Pretty hefty and very floppy brush (but still nice), bowl lather, the DD seems to be not that forgiving (but I'm not very experienced so will use it more before expressing concrete opinions), overall a close shave but I still miss Swedish steel...

There's a high chance I'll be most likely moving to Norway, Greece or Asia (South Korea or even China) by Christmas, so I feel life is finally about to get more exciting. We'll see.

Originally Posted by Str8Shooter

That is such a beautiful TZ!! Do you use a different technique for honing on the Damascus? At the risk of sounding juvenile, The statement you made at the end made me chuckle!!!! SWMBO thought the exact same thing I did!!!!

Thanks mate

No, honing a Damascus is pretty much straight forward stuff, and the same techniques apply, IMO.

Haha, I blame my poor English

Prep: Hot shower w a lovely T&H soap
Brush: Simpson Chubby 3
Razor: Puma, with custom made horn scales (MOP inlays) by Neil Miller
Soap: MdC
AS/edt: Paco Rabanne Ultra Violet
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean
Such a sweet razor, easy cut and excellent to move around the face and the MdC was chunky, ultra slick and with that lovely lavender scent (C V Heljestrand SE razor in the pic too, for display only, this time)

Originally Posted by Otto

Razor: Josh Earl custom 8/8 - Ebony scales

A truly wonderful and outstanding razor!!!

Originally Posted by Otto

One of my nephews and his dear wife had their first child, a girl, during the night. All is well with Mother and child.

Congratulations &

PS: Vitos over glycerin
Lather: Dovo Eucalyptus + a touch of QED Sandalwood
Brush: Omega Long Boar
Strop: Hoffritz
Razor: Dahlgren of Eskilstuna Frame Back
Post Shave: Alum block
Astringent: Dickenson with rosewater
PSB: Nivea Sensitive PSB
ASL: Clubman

A very close shave, BBS+, but unfortunately I nicked my chin and had to get out the styptic pencil. I shaved my goatee off several weeks ago after 15 years and it is amazing the difference in the skin there and the rest of my face. It looks like chicken skin after I shave it Hopefully my skin and my technique improve quickly.

@Mikael
this is a very nice SE!!!

Originally Posted by Mvcrash

Congrats to all. New babies are wonderful to have around. Good health to all.

+1 Congrats!

Originally Posted by baldy

[CENTERSo fortunately they let us go home. We got home at 6 am. just in time for a coffee before heading off to work. Fortunately Jacks temp has been stable all day.
I'm so tired I almost didn't shave, but instead decided to go the other way and have a nice luxurious Uber-lather 3 pass shave.

Glad to hear that everything turned out ok Grant, I can only imagine how scary that must have been.

Congratulations on the new little ones Otto!

Sorry for my absence this week gentlemen. I had a whole lot on my plate and just couldn't find time to take pics and such. I must admit that I "lurked" in the forum (not logged in) each day from my phone and just had a very pleasurable last hour this fine Saturday looking through and "like"ing all of the fine posts. Thank you so much for all the great pictures and comments. No shave for me today, but I'll be back in full force tomorrow with something special.
Glenn

Originally Posted by eTom

@Mikael
this is a very nice SE!!!

Thank you Tom! I've been looking and trying to get a 7 day set together (this is a travel set though, but the razor is very good nick, so maybe I'll use it for a 7 day set - I've bought 7 NOS Helje blades, another razor in ok nick and a NOS 7 day box so far).

Originally Posted by Otto

One of my nephews and his dear wife had their first child, a girl, during the night. All is well with Mother and child.

Glad to hear everyone is doing well. Congratulations to the family and to you on the new addition.

Originally Posted by sharp

Glad to hear that everything turned out ok Grant, I can only imagine how scary that must have been.
Sorry for my absence this week gentlemen. I had a whole lot on my plate and just couldn't find time to take pics and such. I must admit that I "lurked" in the forum (not logged in) each day from my phone and just had a very pleasurable last hour this fine Saturday looking through and "like"ing all of the fine posts. Thank you so much for all the great pictures and comments. No shave for me today, but I'll be back in full force tomorrow with something special.
Glenn

Thanks mate, good to see you back.
Look forward to seeing a SOTD from you tomorrow. Hope work is going ok.
Grant