Thread: November 5 - November 11

Hot shower
Proraso pre
Mason-Pearson super-badger
I`Coloniali shaving-soap
an old TI "Le gnome" straight razor
Pitralon ( swiss )
Penhalgon Endymion EdT

Mon:

Dovo silvertip brush
T&H Grafton cream
TI Pierre Theirs
Harris face milk

Great shave from a great razor.

Originally Posted by mparker762

Mon:

Dovo silvertip brush
T&H Grafton cream
TI Pierre Theirs
Harris face milk

Great shave from a great razor.

I wonder what is this TI like compared to, say, 7/8 Helje, 8/8 W&B, etc.

...yeah, thinking about one myself...

Last night I just gave my face a light run with the electric to bring the stubble down to size for a delicate blade.
Today I shaved with the Feather AC again, and got a clean and less sharp shave. However I don't see myself straying from the straight path as long as I've got one functioning arm (hand included).

Hot shower.
Pre shave using warm water and a cake of glycerine soap.
T&H Shaving Cream in a brand new Moss Scuttle
Vulfix Badger brush
Old Dubl Duck razor, which I completely refinished and put an entirely new edge on,
5/8
Mixture of witch hazel and Clubman as an ideal aftershave.

What most impresses me these days is how I can take almost any salvageable razor and put a new keen edge on it. Takes an hour sometimes, 5 hours other times.

Mark

hot shower (of course)

7/8 Desert Ironwood Wade & Butcher
20mm Thomas Anthony Co. Super Silver Tip brush w. Maple Burl handle
Crabtree & Evelyn Sienna Cream

1st pass with the grain (mostly)
2nd pass against with hot water only

cold water splash followed by ...
Thayer's Witch Hazel Skin Astringent w. Aloe as AS
Lush Dream Cream

Sublime.

X

Hot Shower

6/8 Genco spike
Tony Miller strop
Vulfix 374 silvertip
TGQ Sandalwood soap in a sctttle from Bill Ellis - The Fox Hunt scuttle
Domonica Bay Rum


Terry

Tue:

Rooney brush
Taylor's avocado cream (new formulation)
7/8 W&B "Barber's Rattler"
Harris face milk

Good shave, but I'm feeling vaguely disappointed by the creams I've been using the last few days. Every now and then I haul them out again hoping that I'll discover the magic technique that makes creams so favored by so many others, but I just can't find it. The creams definitely smell nice, but I think I just prefer soap lather for shaving and that's all there is to it; the only lathers that seems to shave as well as a soap for me are the el-cheapo Palmolive and the brushless cremo-cream.

Hot Shower

15/16 Dorko
proraso pre shave cream
Taylor of OBS St James Cream
silvertip badger brush

Witch Hazel

A really super shave...BB smooth.