Thread: SOTD Sep 17 - Sep 23

Originally Posted by RichZ

Sitting on floor
...
Stiptic pencil!!!!

Drop your razor?

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

Terry, just put on your rollerblades and head over to Colleen's place. You should know by now that her soaps are pimp

If I tried to rollerblade I would probably break
my neck... I do have a round of Colleen's
Orange Patchouli. I really need to order some
Sandalwood. Her soaps are very good.


Terry

-C&E BB
-CH OP
-The Winner 9/16
-CH BR as

Today's shave's purpose was 2-fold:

1) To consciously implement the "reduction not elimination" doctrine
2) To re-test Colleen's Bay Rum aftershave

The results:
1) I got an excellent irritation-free shave from a razor that is somewhere in the middle of my rotation, quality-wise. The method really works.
2) The aftershave feels great on my skin and I still like the scent better than DBR.

Additional observations:
Gave myself a small nick, but that was lack of attention and it was so small that it didn't require the use of my dust-collector (styptic pencil).

...So I dashed out the door for an overnight with my new prizes in tow, (just unwrapped 10 minuts prior), and figured from the thumb test they were good nuff....my thumb lied!

Hot shower
Vetiver soap / Old Silvertip Travel brush
Newly aquired FWE Special 6/8
Newly aquired Blackman Strop #814
lots of steptic, many miniature lacerations, minor blood loss.

And, to show how stubborn (read stupid) I am, within arms reach was my matched set of Sheffield Plates, shave ready, that I travel with.

This was by far the worst shave I have ever had...although it didn't seem all that terrible till about 30 seconds after completion. This even beats the one I had in a hotel room when I was without a razor, but 'luckily' found a rusty bic single blade disposable in the top of the closet. ouch

I hope you got a blood test done after the hotel room episode

Hot shower
B&B Works Bio sth conditioner
Burma shave boar brush (this thing is shedding lately )
Honeybee Chamomile soap - pretty mild
6/8 Puma 89 (honed by me) - close to shave-ready
Vit E oil
Trumpers alum block
ice cube
Lucky Tiger AS Toner
L'Occitane CADE AS

3 days of growth to shave! Puma is not where I need it yet. Some HHTs work but not as well as with my blades from Joe or Bill. Tried to build foam on face - didn't work too well; went back to bowl for second pass. Worked on the reduction method. 3 passes and some attention to special places for what didn't feel as a very smooth shave. Even used oil for the 3rd pass. One bleeder, one small nick. The bleeder resulted from some pressure trying to clean my chin with the 'dull' blade. Some red spots which disappeared about 1 hr after the shave. Not too bad, as the alum block felt ok. Still, I need to reach a level of zero redness.

Decent results for me, but the Puma needs to be sharper. Shave felt much smoother when I finished and applied the toner and AS.

Cheers
Ivo

Ivo, what are you honing that Puma with? In any case, it could also be your shaving technique. Try scything to get those tough whiskers outta there. I sometimes resort to it when I realize that the blade needs to go back to the hone after a while.

Anthony Logistics Pre Shave Soap
Hot Towel
Trufit & Hill Preshave Oil
Crabtree & Evelyn Large Super Badger
Home Made Strop - Hand American Red Latigo
G. Westenholm & Sons - 5/8 round point
Classic Shaving Alum Bloc
Thayers Rose Witch Hazel
Paraso After Shave Balm

Got a good shave, not great, This razor needs to be put back on the 4k/8k

Rooney small style 1
Harris Arlington soap
HandAmerican strop
7/8 square point Heljestrand
Harris face milk

Honed on pink translucent arkansas four shaves ago I think. Very smooth comfortable shave. Still no apparent deterioration in the stropped edge, and no noticeable in-shave deterioration either. So far it's holding up at least as well as a stainless edge. I'm planning on using it the rest of the week at least and see how long it goes before needing a quick refresh (carbon blades generally need about 5 laps on the barber hone after shave 3 or 4, stainless usually needs 10 after shave 4 or 5).

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

Ivo, what are you honing that Puma with? In any case, it could also be your shaving technique. Try scything to get those tough whiskers outta there. I sometimes resort to it when I realize that the blade needs to go back to the hone after a while.

Ilija,

I did the aggressive sequence on a Norton 4k / 8k, then 30 passes on a Lithide hone and 60 (I know I can get by with 30 but I enjoy it) on a huge 3" strop from Tony Miller. It is fairly sharp, as I shaved most of the growth without problems. I have a bad scar from mountain biking on my chin, it's raised a few milimeters above the normal skin level, so the pressure got its edge. It's still a very small cut, 1mm or so but it bled worse than it looks. You can't even see it now.

I think I'll do the conservative process tonight.

Cheers
Ivo