Thread: Sun April 8th - Sat April 14th

Wade & Butcher

L'Occitane Lavender Soap
Razor Custom Kropp in American Black Walnut
Brush Chubby 1 in Super
Pre Shave Burt's Bees Shave Cream
Vito's Coconut & Almond
Alum & Witch Hazel
Botanics Moisturiser SPF 15
Coty Raw Vanilla Eau De Cologne

Jamie.

Delightful two pass shave with minor clean up.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

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Nice photo, with all the browns. Have you ever colour coordinated your cream and brush and AS for the SOTD photo? I admit I have...

Jamie,
nice color harmony, as always. ...and nice knife too!

Cheers,
Béla

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Nice photo, with all the browns. Have you ever colour coordinated your cream and brush and AS for the SOTD photo? I admit I have...

I must admit Carl it's my fine Art back gound, always did come top of the class in colour theory, i do enojy a bit of coordination in the photo, but i also like to occasionally throw in a nice colour contrast to liven the party up so to speak.

Jamie.

Wacker | Bomb - Rose & Sandalwood | Thäter | CarrieM ASM | Imaginary Authors - Raul Valério

Dovo BQ 5/8
Poraso green tub
Ogallala BR AS


This poor Dovo has been nothing short of my "crash test dummy"... from novice stropping to the "Hey... this should get a touch up on the Norton 8k" fiasco, eventually it always comes back around and delivers. Tonights venture involved another touch up, but stropping on a printed page, (phone book, akin to newspaper stropping). Need to revisit that with more than a 24 hour beard, but between the blade and the Poraso, the AS Face-Fire factor registered a paltry 0.4, (out of 5.0). I'm getting the idea that the Poraso menthol bomb saves my skin from a higher level of irritation than I'd otherwise experience. Unfortunately, one of my blades would have to subjected to a lack of stropping / honing / mucking around on to prove this theory.


So..obviously.. that's an experiment left undone.

Wednesday

Prep: Hot Shower/ Proraso pre-post creme
Brush: Thater 4125-2, 26mm bulb
Scuttle: Georgetown Pottery G5
Soap: L'Occitane Cade/ 3 drops glycerin
Razor: #14 Henckels, 5/8 square point in ivory scales
Post: Proraso AS, Cade Balm
Result: WOW, the "velvet squeegee" did it's job again. Think this razor is trying for the "exceptional shaver" category. The slightly smiling blade allows me to shave some neck areas much easier. As usual the Cade soap and balm have superior performance and I'm off to work silky sticky smooth and ready to face the world!

Have a Great Wednesday Gents!

Robert, so glad to see you back amongst us my friend! And thank you for the kind comments.

Munroe, congrats on your post count. I saw your Fromm and had to get one. It needs some work, but a great shaver.

Razor: 5/8 Cattaraugus
Prep: hot water, Barbasol
Brush: van der Hagen (boar)
Soap: Tree Hut Shea Butter
A/S: Chipre
Result: decent shave
Comments: Playing off of my success with the Shea Moisture Shave Butter, I attempted the same thing with this stuff. It didn't really work. It killed the Barbasol lather instead of mixing with it. I ended up just shaving with the shea butter cream itself, which was an acceptable, though kindof oily, experience.

Stiz Spartak with some Williams mixed with a dollop of prorasso was a good refreshing shave today