Thread: Sun September 18th - Sat September 24th

Happy belated birthday to Robert and Teiste.

May you have many, many, many more delightfully close, clean and comfortable birthday shaves.

Prep - Hot shower
Soap - Palmolive Shave Stick, Palmolive Cream
Brush - Body Shop synthetic
Razor - Seehund 5/8th, carbon fibre scales
AS - Clinique balm, Old Spice Original

Result - Horrible, disaster of a shave!

Today's shave was horrible but I think I only have myself to blame. Everything I used today was completely new to me; a new Seehund razor I just received from Neil Miller (cheers by the way Neil), a cheap brush that was an impulse buy from the Body Shop (I fancied trying synthetic to see the difference), some old school Palmolive stick and cream, and good old Old Spice Original. Something in that mix resulted in some severe irritation - the thing is with so many new variables I can't figure out what has upset my face so badly! The razor felt great during the shave - it cut without any problems and I hadn't shaved since monday - its the same shape, size and grind to my other razors so nothing out of the ordinary on that front. The brush felt a good bit stiffer than my badger brush, but I'm not sure a synthetic brush could be the cause of irritation? Whatever it was, I hadn't even finished the first pass when my face started to burn quite badly. I rinsed off the lather (which seemed to be pretty decent) and mixed up a quick lather with my TOBS Jermyn St cream, which I thought wouldn't be as bad as its for sensitive skin. The damage was done though, my face was stinging so bad I had to rinse of the new lather as well and abandon the shave completely. I applied some soothing balm to my face, and even that stung like a complete b*tch - and even now, 6 hours later, my face still smarts pretty bad, plus I have patches of stubble all over my chin to boot!

I'm pretty annoyed - my last few shaves have been getting better and better - this one sucked real bad and I don't know why

Early Shave and a late post... September 22nd SOTD
Prep: hot shower and lingering lather
Brush: Rooney Silvertip
Cream: RazoRock XXX
Razor: Dovo C-Mon Blackie
Post: RazoRock Alum

Whadda week! Today the 7 day beard had to go.

Things have been busy, with a big weekend paddling, the start of rec hockey, a new (temp) job, and a assignment for another job interview today I have barely had time to grow a beard let alone shave one off!
The Blackie has moved into a real regular (at least as regular as I shave) and having a few more options in the soap/cream department keeps things interesting, now I need to find the time to get the hones out and then think about finishing the restoration projects.

I also hope to find the time to relax and check out some shaves (if that is not too much to ask at this point ).

It’s almost the weekend!

Originally Posted by barrieduncan

Result - Horrible, disaster of a shave!

Back to the drawing board eh, It sounds like the soap doesn't agree with you, might just need to go with what you know.

Great job gents

Originally Posted by kalerolf

Actually quite a nice shave, yesterday this razor honed and he came out pretty good.
Razor,Laumez 6/8

Congrats on honing this very interesting and beautiful razor. Never heard of the brand before. The new scales are very fitting and classy. Well done. May she give you many fabulous shaves.

Originally Posted by eTom

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Nice beautiful shave (it seems) Tom

Originally Posted by KING2011

Thiers Issard "Hystoric La Rose" 6/8 Full Hollow

Very nice TI

Originally Posted by amb

Blade: Elios #1 use
Comments: Very good shave. Excellent Elios blade. Very smooth. Two pass (WTG, ATG).

Way to go Angel...congrats. The Elios sounds interesting . Never used it before.

Originally Posted by tumtatty

Happy late birthday guys! I've been without internet for the last 4 days

Thanks Tim...What happened to your internet?

Originally Posted by jhenry

SS: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
Result: Another quick, close and comfortable shave.

Monroe,
With Da Fat, such close shaves are to be expected. Great job

Originally Posted by Blix

[LIST][*]Shaving Cream: RazoRock XXX[*]Razor: Gotta 120 6/8[*]
My favorite old blade, the Sheffield steel Gotta always delivers great smooth shaves. The RazorRock XXX is fast becoming one of my fave creams. Made by the same company making AdP, and the formula is almost identical.

If it smells like AdP and acts like AdP, it must be AdP ;-). Actually it is the same, for much cheaper and you don't pay for the brand. It is awesome stuff indeed. Great shave Amund. Love that Gotta too

PS: you've been showing off some nice vintage (background) gear buddy. Love this Polariod.

Originally Posted by Jeltz

Another awesome shave tonight.
Tried cold water shaving and it was fine but I think I prefer warm.

Nic,
I agree...I prefer the warm lather too...The only cold part of the shave I like is the rinse at the very end, before application of AS

Originally Posted by jhenry

Happy belated birthday to Robert and Teiste.

May you have many, many, many more delightfully close, clean and comfortable birthday shaves.

Thanks Monroe

Originally Posted by barrieduncan

Result - Horrible, disaster of a shave!

Today's shave was horrible but I think I only have myself to blame. Everything I used today was completely new to me.
I'm pretty annoyed - my last few shaves have been getting better and better - this one sucked real bad and I don't know why

BD,
I am so sorry to hear about this horrid shave, but it's hard to pinpoint exactly which may be the culprit. Anything from razor to cream or brush could have resulted in it. At least you know it's not the post shave since irritation happened before that stage. Now, first thing that I would do is lay off of putting anything on the face for a day or so (except maybe Thayers toner or equivalent). When the skin is irritated, it will remain so to almost anything. best thing is really a gentle cold water rinse and almost no toweling or very gentle drying.

You may want to test the cream first...just cream on the face alone. Rub a little of it on the face (after irritation subsides) with your fingers and see if skin reacts or not. This will be easy as your skin seems to be VERY reactive (and fast) to whatever it was that caused the irritation in the first place.

If not the cream, my next test would be the brush...rub it (alone) on part of your face and see what happens. Did you clean the brush when you got it?

If none of the two above, then it must be the edge. New razors are a wild card and if they carry any coatings of disinfectant or oil of sorts that hasn't been cleaned off, even minutes amounts of it may irritate the skin. I always take my "new" blades (NOS or not) to a metal polish, followed by renaissance wax (cleanly wiped with a towel).

PS: Sorry about the long babble...I will stop here, but just my 2 cents

Originally Posted by Dunc

Cream: RazoRock XXX
Razor: Dovo C-Mon Blackie

Things have been busy, with a big weekend paddling, the start of rec hockey, a new (temp) job, and a assignment for another job interview today I have barely had time to grow a beard let alone shave one off!

Dunc,
Glad to have you back buddy. Thought you left us for greener pastures, LOOOL. Great shave...It must have felt awesome to wipe 7 days of growth away...and what better way than with the Blackie and RR XXX

Hmmmm...The razorRock XXX is becoming a regular with a lot of folks (me included) around these necks of the woods

Best of luck with the new job interview and hope you can find more time to stick around and check out some shaves

________________
Cheers,
Robert

Boy i though i was never going to get to shave. Last time was on sunday and it wasnt so great. I recieved this Flaschner this week. Thank you Bella! I really like the weight and feel. I just wished they stamped or etched the name on the tang or blade. I think this will wear off over time. I hone her up tonight. Chosera 1k,Norton 4/8, Bill's Jnat, Shapton 16K. She had her work cut out for her. I want to treat my self to top performing Uber Dr Harris and St James. First pass wiped nearly 97% of my stubble. Only needed to do XTG pass to finisher her up. BBS with no irritation. Awesome shave and boy did i need it.

Woderful job Guys!

Pegasus Strop
Vestavia brush
Dr Harris Lavender+ TOBS St James
Flaschner 15/16
WH
Skin Food
TAOS Balm

"Thanks Tim...What happened to your internet?"

Road Crew dug up the fiber optic cable in my yard (accidentally) 4 days ago and just got service restored tonight!

Good morning friends
Today once again one of my Thiers Isssard together with Muehle R41
brush: Muehle
soap: Calani

Good Morning, day off today, extra hour in bed

Prep: Shower
Strop: SRD Premium 1 Leather, 30,70
Brush: Kent, Boar
Soap: Cella, Crema Sapone (in L'Occitane Bowl)
Razor: Dovo, 6/8" Pearlex
Finish: Rocca Di Allume Naturale
EDC: No 4711

I always look forward to my weekend shaves, when I can take my time and enjoy it. Todays shave didn't disappoint, nice and smooth in 2 passes, but did another one just for fun.

BD, that was some very practical advice from Robert, hope your next shave is back to normal.

I wish everyone a Great Friday, stay safe.

Rene,
congrats! This Flaschner-razor is amazing.
It seems, I should do a trip to Hungary!