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Joseph Allen & Son NON XLL 'Medium Hollow Ground' barbers notch/ Williams mug soap with a few drops of Cromwell & Cruthers in the lather/ hot towel & prorasso pre/ Brut AS Nivea cream post.
WTG-ATG-XTG

Special Occasion Shave! This was my smoothest ever and possibly closest straight shave to date.

Thursday April 19th, 2012.

Prep: Hot water and Brommer's soap.

Cream: Trumper's Sandalwood

Brush: Custom Deer Antler Handle Pure Badger

Razor: 6/8" Hayne 3/4 Hollow

Astringent: Thayer's Super Hazel

AS: Ogallala Bay Rum Sandalwood.

Prop: S&W Model 640 357 Mag Snubbie with Speer Lawman 130 HPs. I've put a million miles on this baby!

I received this razor in the mail yesterday morning from flea-bay. It was badly in need of a good honing and due to the somewhat funky toe I was hesitant. I was showing it off to my buddy MJHammer who was loaning me various razors to try out and left it there while I ran some errands.

When I stopped back by to pick up the loaners MJ had pulled the scales, buffed, cleaned and polished them, buffed the blade AND put a fantastic edge on this razor. I kid you not! When I tried it this morning it was the smoothest straight shave I've experienced to date.

I think MJHammer is a budding hone-meister and should be kept in mind should any of you need a touch up or a full scale bevel set/rehone.

Thanks Mike! What a guy!

John

John, Your kind words leave me humbled and grateful. I'm so glad it gave you a good shave! Oh, and welcome to the SOTD brotherhood!
M

Thursday 2/19/12

Geneva Cutlery Pyramid 5/8
C&E BBB
Speick & Mem uberlather
Thayers Lemon WH
Floid Vigoroso a/s
Anherb a/s gel
212 Edt

Great combination lather gave the blade a smooth medium to give me another fantastic shave. Love that New York steel! And today will be better than yesterday.

Prep: Hot shower -- followed by Vitos pre-post-shave cream
SC: Al’s Shaving Cream “Jubilee”
Brush: H. L. Thater Series 4376/2 21mm Finest Badger Silver Tip
Strop: SRD Premium IV Bridle Leather - 50 fabric; 60 leather
Razor: 5/8” Wade & Butcher
Toner: Thayers “Original” Witch Hazel w/ Aloe Vera
ASG: Gillette “Sensitive Skin”
AS: Aqua Velva Classic “Ice Blue”
Result: BBS…

Goodfellow/FSfine badger/ Marx&co 6/8/ Le Male/ BBS.
Have a nice evening!

Originally Posted by fonthunter

Do I know you from somewhere? You sounds vaguely familiar... Great having you on SRP David. Very nice blade and great shot my friend!
Cheers,
Béla

Originally Posted by jrabi

Thank you David, and I very-very glad, that you are here, and I can read your comments!



Nice shot! Your picture well done as usually!

Originally Posted by LegalBeagle

David, a smashing debut! Your typical incredible close-up! It's so very good to have you here, now we can enjoy your artistic quality every day!

Thanks, guys, for all the kind words of welcome. It's going to take a few days to get used to this SOTD, so there won't be all the comments you are used to seeing at this stage. But I'll get there!

Gentlemen, this is my first day in this SOTD, and may I say some mighty impressive pics here today.

Good evening friends!

Shave prep: Face wash
Brush: Omega boar
Soap: Mitchell's Wool Fat
Scuttle: Robert Becker extra large
Razor: Mystery razor, 5/8 half hollow
Strop: nun2sharp's hanging leather strop
After Shave Splash: Vetiver Rose home made splash
Notes: My second shave today this, exactly the same as the first one. Exept the first one happened very early in the morning, in a hurry, and really was not that great. I had stubble again before I left work so I made an evening shave as well. Remind me not to do the early morning shaves again, I really don't enjoy them much. This one was very nice though, perfect BBS. I did pay for the second shave, the splash stung more than it has in a very long time coming on. Still, feeling nice and clean. Oh, they closed my photo editor so I'm playing around with a new one. I think I like it.

Brush: Rooney Heritage 2XL
Soap: Nanny's Cedarwood & Vetyver
Straight: Harrison Bros & Howson
AS: Varon Dandy