Thread: Sun December 4th - Sat December 10th

Good Morning Gentlemen

I enjoyed reading your posts yesterday.

Prep: Shower
Strop: TI Paddle Strop, 30,70
Brush: Aqua Di Parma Silvertip, Wenge Wood Handle
Cream: Proraso
Razor: Dovo, Flowing
AS: Nivea After Shave Fluid.

Nice and smooth 2 pass shave.

Two-band Thäter SRP 2011 LE Bulb
QCS Cedarwood Lemongrass
Henckels 80
444 ASB
Jovan Musk Oil

Originally Posted by BladeRunner001

Konstantinos,
Looks like you're settling OK in your new home (South Korea), although it looks like they've got you set in a hotel. Hope all is well...Great shave buddy
...

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Cheers,
Robert

Many thanks, Robert. It is not a hotel room actually - I got straight into my apartment. It's a 3 bedroom one and this is the master bedroom, which at the moment I use partially.

Boker Edelweiss 5/8 in bone scales
Simpson Beaufort B4
The Body Shop Maca Root
Gillette Fusion aftershave gel
Pinaud-Clubman Musk aftershave
A dropped-once-too-many-times TOBS alum block
My La Veinette Coticule

This is a recycled photo from another forum last week, but I pretty much shave with the same stuff over and over again, so it's still relevant. I did some honing and stropping last night, and today was my first good shave with something that I honed myself. It's still not buttery Coticule-smooth, but extremely rewarding.

Pre : Hot Shower followed by EJ pr shaving cream
Razor : Muhle R106
Blade : Shark ( 4th day and last )
Brush : Semogue 1305
Cream : RazoRock XXX
ASL : Fa
ASB : RazoRock Wax

Wednesday
Thiers-Issard-still

SOTD Wednesday 7

Good Morning.

Pre: Myrsol
Brush: Mason Pearson, pure badger
Soap/Cream: Cella
Straight Razor: Spike 5/8. Near Wedge. Spike point.
ASL: Pashana, Original
Comments: Excellent shave. Two passes and BBS.

Have a nice day, Gentlemen
Angel.

Originally Posted by DOOM

BIRTHDAY SHAVE
cheers
Dominic

Happy Birthday! 35! Just a Spring Chicken!

Originally Posted by NavalArchitect

[CENTER]Gillette Tuckaway & Wilkinson

Love the pattern on that razor handle...

Wednesday

First, thanks for all the comments of support yesterday; they made me feel much better.

This morning I awoke to the sound of that bloody bird that keeps singing beautiful songs outside my bedroom window, seemingly thinking I want to wake at dawn. He annoys the [insert expletive] out of me but it’s hard to get annoyed when he’s so earnest about the whole performance. Reminds me of the Thomas Hardy poem ‘The Darkling Thrush’ (of course the poem is written about the opposite end of the day but it reminds me nevertheless). The last two verses are:

At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.

I love the steel of this W&B. I’m not sure what it is, but it’s smooth as silk. Not a BBS shave like yesterday, but quite acceptable for the Man About Town that I am. I'm seriously considering sending three of my four razors on a summer holiday to a Kindly Uncle Honemiester, who will whip them into sharp shiny shape, and send them back all sparkly and eager and new.

It’s Bailey’s fourth birthday on the morrow, so no post tomorrow as I’ll be spending the evening (which is when I post my posts) with him, my daughter and the rest of the family.

Oh, by the way, I’m afraid I’ve turned into one of those creepy old men who SMOTHER themselves in aftershave. I lay the blame squarely at the feet of Dominica Bay Rum and Pinaud Clubman, and I wash my hands of the blame like Pilot. I’m using WAY too much of it, but it’s just so, so nice...

My wife says the Bay Rum makes me smell like I’ve been baking apple pies...

Razor: Wade and Butcher 4/8 'Special', Canadian Maple Scales

Pre Shave: Proraso

Cream: Truefitt and Hill Trafalgar

ASB: Witch Hazel

After Shave: Dominica Bay Rum