Thread: Sun March 11th - Sat March 17th

Location: 36° 0'5"N - 115° 15' 21"W
Razor: Zartina
Brush: C2
Soap: SRD Bulgarian Rose
Astringent: Thayers Witch Hazel
AS: Booster - Mosswood

Spring is in the air in Vegas. Trees and plants are slowly flowering and several of my cactus are starting to wake up from hibernation. Took out one of my favorite soap for the occasion, SRD's Bulgarian Rose. What a scent and total performance soap. I sure pray SRD will ever decide to offer a new batch. It's that good. The Zartina is a very smooth shaver. Nice full hollow singing razor. I'm as clean and bbs shaven as they come.

Don't forget to adjust your clocks. DST is lurking at 2.00am (Except Arizona and Hawaii)

Enjoy the new week, gents.

Good morning friends!

PREP: Floïd Sandolor Pre Shave Gel

BRUSH: 23 mm Shavemac, Finest Badger ("Gut-rasiert" forum shaving brush 2011)

SOAP/CREAM: Mama Bear's Caribbean Glycerin Shave Soap

SCUTTLE / BOWL: Fitjar Lathering Up Shaving Bowl

RAZOR: 6/8" HartSteel BG, Satin, Quarter Ground, Square Point, O-1 steel (w/ blue silicon scales)

STROP: Kanayama Cordovan #60000

SHAVE: 2 passes, WTG/XTG

AS: Acqua Di Parma Collezione After Shave Balm

RESULT: Excellent, BBS shave

Have a nice week,
Béla

Wade & Butcher

Hot Shower
Proraso Pre Shaving Cream
Merkur 45 Bakelite
Feather blade
Semogue 2000
Schwarzweisskeramik XL
Proraso Green Soap
Proraso lotion

Joe Chandler Custom/Martin de Candre SS-ASB-Lavande/Chubby 3, 2 band super/SWK/Tony Miller Cordovan



A sunny and very warm Sunday morning here in Oslo today.
This is one of the biggest days in Norwegian sports, the "Holmenkollen Sunday" with Ski-Jumping and Cross country skiing competitions.
I'm off to watch it, and I'm sporting a mighty clean shaven face after this great shave today.
Have a great week all!

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Le Tuft horn handle and Abalone in base, with Simpson 22 mm Super knot
Razor: Boker, Griplus
Soap: Santé Provence
AS/edt: Paco Rabanne, Ultraviolet
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean


... and some:

Location: Coffs Harbour Australia
Strop: MickR's Roo Hide
Brush: Franks Shaving Fine Badger
Soap: La Toja
Razor: Long Life 145 11/16
Toner: Thayer's Witch Hazel
Balm: Nivea Replenishing
A/S: Wahl Bay Rum



I've been using this razor to get to know my hones a little better this week.
I think I've taken this edge as far as I can now, and a lovely edge it is.
The fantastic La Toja lather was a sample supplied by Rene, thank you sir
3 passes and a fantastic BBS tonight.

The family and I are heading down to Sydney tomorrow. Jack is having a routine bone marrow test on Tuesday.

Thanks for all the great posts and pics gentlemen, have a great week
Grant

Originally Posted by baldy

...Jack is having a routine bone marrow test on Tuesday...

Hi Grant. I hope it goes OK. Bailey now has hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. I understand how stressful this is. Live for the moment, like the kids teach us to...

Sunday, De Pews Day

I’m starting to determine the razor for the day. That is, Saturday is DE day, Sunday is De Pews day, Monday is Schulze day (soon to be Revisor day), Tuesday is Wade and Butcher day, Wednesday is Klas Törnblom day, Thursday is Burrell day, Friday is Yet To Be Determined. I’m sure many of us have a seven day set of different vintage and new razors, with each sharing its attributes for the day, some are sharper than others for when we need sharp (like the first day of the working week), some are smoother and less sharper (Wednesday or the weekend), some are just nice for when we need nice (Thursday), some are classic casual for when we need classic casual (DE day).

A lovely day today, commenced with hand ground coffee beans (in a Spong vintage grinder), followed by a walk to the local forest with Lucy the Dalmatian, followed by a picnic with the wife, kids and grandchild (Bailey); throwing the ball and feeding the ducks and drinking some wine. This is the stuff of life. All else is fluff…

Razor: De Pews

Pre Shave: Proraso

Überlather : Proraso/C O Bigalow/Glycerine

After Shave: Truefitt and Hill Trafalgar

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Martinez' Custom: Chess King w/ 26mm silver tip badger
Soap: Mama Bear's Aged Spice
Strop: Tony Miller Heirloom tri-strop (3x25)
Razor: Moreton & Langley's razor 13/16
ASB: Mama Bear's Winter ASB Aged Spice
soundtrack: Anne-Sophie Mutter: Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata

Unhurried, comfortable and relaxing shave.
Windy 10C / 50F and overcast.
The smell of salt from the fjord gives me a feeling that spring is in the air.