Now that the SOTD pic shows, I'm confused. How did you cut the back of your thumb with a razor that is closed??? :hmmm:
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Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Simpson Polo 8
Razor J A Hellberg no 14, 1/4 hollow
Soap: Provence Santé
AS: Mennen S B
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean :D
I was going to test shave my walkabout razor, besides it was a major PITA to hone it also had a no good edge (slightly warped blade I think). So I took the other test razor and boy what a difference! It was close to an uberclean shave and this blade shaved like a good Sheffield, smooth all the way :D
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Good morning friends! Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Pre Hot leisurely shower, Taylor of Old Bond Street's Aromatherapy Pre-Shave Oil, Hot Towel, Taylor of Old Bond Street's Aromatherapy Pre-Shave Oil
Soap DR Harris's Arlington Soap
Scuttle SRD Black Scuttle
Brush Simpson Commodore Best Badger X3
Strop SRD 3' Kangaroo Strop
Razor Wade and Butcher 7/8 Celebrated Feather Edge w/ Carbon Fiber Scales
Post Alum Block, Dickinson's Witch Hazel
ASB Trumper's Sandalwood Skin Food
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Thanks Grant ,great to be back!! Also might I add a belated Congrats to Jacky boy , that was awesome news to hear buddy :D
Paul,
I love TF vetiver. I have Vintage Guerlain and while it being an amazing fragrance I find myself using TF more. It has a clean and smoky Vetiver scent, but a little subdued by a very pleasant citrus background, which means I can wear it during spring and summer and it fits nicely.
Muhle R101/Feather Blade/Simpson Chubby 2/GFT Spanish Leather/Razorock Sandalwood EDT
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Razor: Stiz Spartak 55
DE: Gillette super speed*
DE blade: Vintage Minora of Canada
Strops: Red Imp 700c, Illinois Cordovan Shell. 20 linen, 20 RI, 30 Cordovan
Soap: Proraso green tub
Brush: Omega boar
AS: Brut
Music: I left home when I was young- Bob Dylan
Coffee :) : 454 Horse power kicking horse coffee Co. French press. Black.
Finished up with a cigarette :p
* haven't been able to truly ID this razor
Jojoba Oil/Sandalwood EO for a pre-shave|L'occitane Cade Soap|AOS Sandalwood ASB|Thiers Issard 6/8| Semogue 803 Boar BrushAttachment 97257The jojoba oil really helped for a smooth and comfortable shave. I honed the razor myself last week. This is the best shave I have had from her.
Weekend for me. 4days free of work.
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Razor Ern 7/8,bomb oakmoss+bergamott,custum silvertip, La Male.
Result,a damm fine shave!
I hope I can help you with this:hmmm:
The factory steel products (STIZ)
СТИЗ (STIZ) – СТальных (STeel) ИЗделий (products)
Location: Moscow, underground station “Electrozavodskaya”
Trademarks: STIZ, UNION, Dawn, Mars, Capital, East, Spartacus (Spartac)
Enterprise was created in the postwar years with the technology base copied from the German workplace, with working staff who had been taken away from the Nizhny Novgorod province.
Product included: knifes, multi-tools (split folding spoon-fork set-knife), and straight razors from the 1950s to the 1990s. Collapsed at about the mid-1990s, now on its place stands shopping mall.
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Your razor was manufactured in 1955 (USSR razor always stamped with a year of production). And I heard that after 1955 quality of steel which was used in USSR razors very reduced so you are lucky :D
Pre-Shave: Hot shower Brush: SRP Thäter Razor: ERN Crown & Sword 7/8 Strop: 40/60 Neil Miller Linen/Kanayama Cordovan Soap: Wilkinson Stick After shave: Mennen Skin Bracer Results: New soap to try out, the Wilkinson stick is actually really good, and combined with the C&S, which always perfers the shave was excellent!!
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Wednesday evening shave
Prep: shower + l'Ocitanne cade soap
Brush: Tweezerman
Razor: Kiebitz brother EMDE Solingen 9/16
Cream: Nivea for Men for sensitive skin
ASB: l'Occitane cade
Result: great
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After 1,5 year of using l'Ocitanne cade soap I really get bored with it but still can't finish it, that's why now I try to take to the shower and use it as preperation before shave - I like the result.
Thanks for the great posts!
Wednesday
Brush: Vie-Long Horse
Soap/Creme: Proraso Sandalwood
Razor: Schick G type.
Blade: Chinese Schick
Pre: 3P
Post: Aqua velva
Hair Groom: Gables Cream-oil
Result: DFS
Prep: Hot shower – followed by Vitos pre-post-shave cream
SS/SC: Cella + Ingram
Brush: Simpsons Polo PL8 “Super Badger”
Strop: SRD Premium IV Bridle Leather--50 fabric; 60 leather
Razor: 5/8” Puma #68 “Inox-Special”
Toner: Thayer’s “Original” Witch Hazel w/ Aloe Vera
ASG: Gillette “Sensitive Skin”
AS: Aqua Velva Classic “Ice Blue”
Result: CBS…
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Thanks! Walleye is the best.
I use a little piece of Blu Tac behind my razors to make them stand up, but I've used it so many times it's not real sticky. So the razor kept falling over. Further to that, the scales have loosened a little, so when I was positioning it the blade fell on my thumb. The cut is surprisingly fine.
Thanks Carl! I love this razor too. It was my first total restore razor. Came to me just the blade. But it also came with a other Stiz "union" totally rusted over and growing pock holes like no tomorrow. Those scales came from the union. So the spartak was Restored to all original soviet conditioning :)
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Cella/TOBS Almond-W&B Special-DB 1.5-25MM Silvertip-Lubriderm
Just a quick post before bed. 2 Pass shave and busy Thurs as getting ready for the week end. Long Army weekend as my unit tries to outshoot the CO. LOL no chance.
Paul
Thursday
The car’s broken down (wheel bearings) so, as there’s no public transport in the tiny town I live in, I’ve been forced to take two days’ recreation leave. I told my wife last night I was going to sleep in until two o’clock in the afternoon. When I was young and in the army, I gained a degree of fame from sleeping ridiculous amounts of time; up to 16 hours. I credit my youthful looks to it. Today I only managed one o’clock, after which I was a little ashamed, so took the opportunity on this lovely sunny autumn day to cut the lawns. The post-lawn-care shave with the Burrell Top Flight was excellent.
The Bald Frog ‘Wake Up Rosemary’ soap sample Mastershake sent me mixed with Body Shop Macca Root and glycerine in an Überlather was superb. I’ll have to commit to getting some of Mastershake’s soap; I keep meaning to…
Excellent pics and comments guys!
Razor: Burrell Top Flight Pre-Shave: Sukin Facial Moisturiser Überlather: Bald Frog ‘Wake Up Rosemary’/Body Shop Macca Root/Glycerine After Shave: Dominica Bay Rum Eau de Toilette: Evaflor ‘Whiskey’
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I used to love range shoots when I was in the army. I preferred 'normal' range shoots rather than Surface to Air Missile practices, esp when I was promoted to Sergeant, as I had more control as a Safety Officer. We normally shot SLRs, 9mm Browning, 84mm Carl Gustaf, 66mm SRAAW, M60, a grenade launcher we called a 'Wombat Gun' (I can't remember its real name). Generally, the days started with PT at 6ish, followed by showers and breakfast, then on to the Unimogs, off to this range and that range, firing this and that weapon, a lot of waiting, hot box lunches, a lot of smoking. Then home to the tent lines, shower, hanging around, making cups of tea, talking, more smoking, maybe a run or some weights for fun, tea, then quite an amount of beer when the 'bar' opened (a gunner assigned to the eskys holding the beer; a dollar a can), more smoking, etc. I miss it, actually.
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SHAVE shave cream
Home Made red badger brush
TI Historic Dos Festonne
National Day Shave:
Shave prep: Face wash
Brush: Haryali badger
Soap: Martin de Candre DOmino
Scuttle: Robert Becker ekstra large
Razor: John Barber, 5/8 wedge
Strop: nun2sharp's hanging leather strop
After Shave Splash: Vetiver Rose home made splash
Notes: Great 2-pass shave today, I picked a razor that just might be as old as our constitution (1814) and MdC for utter luxury.
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Our natoinal day is celebrated with parades and ice cream, it is very much a people's day, and above all a children's day. I am including a couple pictures, one is our parade street filled w people celebrating, and one a closeup to show what you are in fact seeing in the large picture. I am afraid the weather today is rainy, but hot dogs and ice cream will go down in spades anyhow I am sure.
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Parade street
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Flag-bearing children
Have a great day everyone!
Glad 17 May, to all of our Norwegian brothers (and sisters - except that nut case Breivik)!
+1
Good morning friends!
PREP: Proraso Preshave Cream
BRUSH: 23 mm Vie-Long 16510 Silvertip Badger Shaving Brush
SOAP/CREAM: La Toja Shave Creamp
SCUTTLE / BOWL: Fitjar Lathering Up Shaving Bowl
RAZOR: G. Johnson *******
STROP: Kanayama Cordovan #60000
SHAVE: 2 passes, WTG/XTG
AS: Floïd (Spanish)
RESULT: Clean shave
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Have a nice day,
Béla
Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Pensoftheforest, Neep coffee bean brush in silvertip
Razor: Crown and Eagle
Superlather: Dr Harris Almpond + Proraso cream (perfect combo every time)
AS: Ogallala limes and Peppercorns
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean :D
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Thursday
Prep: Hot Shower/ AOS preshave oil
Brush: Thater 4125-2
Scuttle: G5
Soap: Proraso/ Salter Vetiver/ glycerin Uber
Razor: Wade&Butcher 13/16" Hollow Ground
Post: Proraso AS/ Nivea Lotion unscented
Result: This was one of THOSE shaves! You can feel it is going to be perfect from the moment the razor hits the skin. It felt like I was wiping the lather off with a butter knife...yep, it was that smooth! The lather was over the top both scent and performance and I would hope that all my SOTD brothers can have an experience this good! Off to work feeling like a million.
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Have a Great Thursday Gents!
Wow, I just have to say the photos have been beyond great guys!
Carl, hope your car starts treating you better.
Happy National day to all the Norwegian Brothers!
Bill, WOW! nice Maxtom! Is it new???
I honed this razor up last night. 13/16 FR. What an awesome razor. One pass was all i needed to a near perfect BBS. OUTSTANDING!!!!
Tony Miller strop
Vestavia Brush
Ogallala Bay Rum
Frederick Renyolds 13/16 Magnetic
WH
Calypso ASB
Razor: Weishi 9306 DE
Prep: hot water, Barbasol
Brush: no name boar
Soap: local goat milk soap
A/S: Chipre
Result: DFS
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In a bit of a rush this morning.
Prep: Hot Shower
Razor: Boker Barber Tip
Brush: Semogue 2000
Soap: TSD Iced Sub Zero
AS: Skin Bracer
Finish: Pinaud Lime Sec
Result: Nice one pass shave good enough for work.
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Gentlemen, here is today's lineup:
Razor: Joris in the light buffalo horn handle
Blade: Personna red pack
Brush: Vie-Long horse hair
Cream: Castle Forbes lavender
Pre-shave: Castle Forbes
Scuttle: Moss
Face lather
Alum
Witch hazel
Balm: Institute Karite
Aftershave: Scottish Fine Soaps
17/5, Busan
Progress & Feather
Cella
Omega 98
Old Spice (U.S. but not vintage)
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