Thread: Sun January 15th - Sat January 21st

Originally Posted by baldy

I took the Bengall for a quick touch-up yesterday, unfortunately I did a bit of a rush job of it.
My eldest daughter turned 18 today and we have had five 18 year old girls (no I'm not posting pics) and 2 guys at the house for low key dinner/party.
They seem like good kids, nice to know her friends are pretty cool.
I had to drive some of them home, hence the late post. Its 11:15pm here and I'm off to bed.

Thanks for all the great posts and pics gentlemen
Grant

Congrats for your daughter's birthday, and for this razor that looks so pretty in your pic Grant

Originally Posted by baldy

My eldest daughter turned 18 today and we have had five 18 year old girls (no I'm not posting pics) and 2 guys at the house for low key dinner/party.
They seem like good kids, nice to know her friends are pretty cool.
I had to drive some of them home, hence the late post. Its 11:15pm here and I'm off to bed.

Thanks for all the great posts and pics gentlemen
Grant

Happy Birthday to your daughter.

Originally Posted by fonthunter

my eldest grandchild turned 18 today

Happy Birthday to your Granddaughter Bela. Beautiful young lady. Must take after your wife's side of the family....

My 3rd SOTD post!
Prep: Shower, Neutrogina face scrub, Floid Sandolar pre-shave gel
Soap: Proraso White aloe/green tea cream soap
Brush Van Der Hagen Natural Boar
Razors: 1st pass J.R.Torrey 9/16 half hollow notch 12 laps on 2line8" Swaty
2nd pass John Pritzlaff HW Co. 326 11/16 full hollow french point
Styptic: Proraso blood stop gel, alum block
Post: Proraso White pre/post cream, Cold water rinse, Floid Blue AS

I had not shaved since Saturday morning before my best friends wedding. The John Prittzlaff gave me a very close no nick shave on its maiden voyage of my face so I planned to keep it in reserve just in case for today. Although I had broken out a bit I was eager to try the J.R.Torrey after touching up on the Swaty with water and considering its 9/16 it does fine on longer growth but not so well on stubble. I managed a comfortable first pass before it started pulling on stubble as predicted. reapplying of preshave gel, switching to the John Pritslaff I made a second pass with a little nick on the corner of my top lip and made a 3rd pass to finish with a nick on the right of my chin. Another first using the Floid Blue AS I found quite different.

RazoRock XXX / Semogue 2011 LE / Henckels 80 / 444 ASB / Jovan Musk Oil A/S

Originally Posted by Mvcrash

Happy Birthday to your Granddaughter Bela. Beautiful young lady. Must take after your wife's side of the family....

You have no mercy with Bèla,

Shavemac | Martin De Candre | Tosuke | Alum | Cade Balm | Etat Libre d'Orange Antiheroes

Tues Jan 17
Brush: Omega Boar
Soap/Creme: Arko
Razor: Merkur Progress
Blade: Black Gillette
Pre: Shower
Post: Witch Hazel
Hair Groom: Gables Creme Oil

Wednesday morning:
A Bow- what else.

Wednesday

This morning I decided on an Überlather of Crabtree and Evelyn Nomad and Faulding’s ‘Shave’ cream. The ‘Shave’ is what I used to use in the pre-straight era, and it’s an OK cream, cheap (2 bucks fifty) and has a nice scent. The Überlather worked out OK, but not spectacular. Maybe I’m not concentrating enough? Sounds strange that one needs to concentrate on making a lather, but there it is...

The Klas Törnblom performed spectacularly again. I can’t fault this razor these days, it takes an edge and keeps an edge.

I think I’m starting to get ‘stuck’ on a combo. Proraso Pre-shave, the W&B or Törnblom, Pinaud Clubman all feature consistently. It’ll be interesting to see what cream is my ‘go to’ cream. I’m leaning towards Musgo Real, but the C O Bigalow rocked up from the U S of A tonight. I’ll have more to say about that tomorrow, but even though it’s made my Proraso, I think saying it’s Proraso in a tube is simplifying it a bit; it’s a different scent (to me), possibly not as strong as Proraso soap/cream. Also, the O Melhor is probably winging its way over the Celtic sea from the Green Isle from whence it was procured. Sometimes I DO get a little guilty about contributing to global warming by keeping all those freight companies in business shipping my creams to me from far afield, but it does make for good after dinner or after BBQ conversation. I find I can slip the ‘I shave with a straight razor’ comment in almost anywhere these days...

Razor: Klas Törnblom

Pre Shave: Proraso

Überlather: Crabtree and Evelyn Nomad/Faulding’s ‘Shave’/Glycerin

ASB: None

After Shave: Pinaud Clubman and Burberry ‘The Beat’ Eau de Toilette

Thanks

Hi guys,
I’m not going to respond to each of your comments about Bailey, as I don’t want to ‘bog down’ the thread. I hope it’s enough to say I really do appreciate them; some of them brought a tear to my eye and I found some to be so very, very deep and insightful.

Thanks.