Thread: November 5 - November 11

I'm a day late on this one - 11/7/06

Hot shower
T&H Preshave Oil
T&H West Indian Limes Cream
Taylor Best Badger Brush
Crown and Sword 4/8 Razor
Royall Lymes Aftershave

Hot Shower

4/8 Femarud
Proraso pre shave
Classic shaving coconut and lime soap
silvertip badger brush
C&E Nomad after shave balm.


The proraso really makes a difference...

Hot Shower

6/8 Dovo Horn handle
proraso pre shave
Taylor of OBS Sandalwood soap
silvertip badger brush

Old Spice

Nice shave classic scent

11/9/06

Showah
C&E Almond Oil Cream
Taylor's Brush
4/8 Crown and Sword (It was on the counter, so it got used again - I was in a hurry)
Coral Skin Food

Hot Shower

5/8 Supplee Hardware spike
Tony Miller strop
Vulfix 374 silvertip
Tabac soap
Tabac AS


Definately love Tabac soap. Lathers quickly
and easily and is in a word...... Great.

This little Supplee Hardware is pretty cool as
well. Gives a great shave and the added bonus
being that I bought it for $8.00 at a junk store.


Terry

Vintage swedish frameback arrived yesterday. I expected a dog. When I got it I liked it so much I was inspired to clean it and hone it, so that I can shave right away. And I did!

Hot shower
Tony Miller 3'' strop
Rooney Super med
Lucky Tiger shave lotion (~cream, getting lazy for soaps lately)
aforementioned heavy 13/16 swedish frameback cleaned and honed by me
also stropped the 8/8 Fili (one of my very best - as backup, after the last lesson)
Trumper's alum block
ice cube
L'O CADE AS balm

I got some red patches the last time I tried a (wedge) razor honed by me but just couldn't wait to test the swedish frameback. When I got it it was dull. ONE conservative pyramid got it to shave hairs off my hand and pass HHTs along the whole blade (including the toe smile) HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS???

Shave itself: Zero nicks / cuts. Razor has perfect balance. Sharp, but not where Joe gets them. Still, being careful not to irritate the neck, which was not totally recovered from previous shave, I got a 9 out of 10 shave.

Now, a shave rating of 9 is not enough to get it into my very best circle, but I have high hopes - with just some more Norton love I believe it can get to the required 9+ or above. Only gripe - tail is a bit short, I prefer them a tad longer.

I went for the alum and felt no sting at all - meaning the blade was sharp enough and technique was ok. Mild redness on neck - combined from previous shave, stretching, and alum. Said redness was gone soon and now there's just great looking skin.

Cheers
Ivo

Hot shower
Trimed neck and sides with my 3/8 Heljestrand French point
hot water only, no cream

Should have followed with the Dream Cream. My skin was dry all day.

X

Thu:

Rooney's finest small style 1
Gold Dachs Spezial soap
TI Pierre Thiers
Harris face milk

Absolutely blissful shave, BBS but not one of those 18hr BBS shaves. I was just in a major groove the entire shave. I am in deep, deep love with this razor.