Thread: Sun June 10th - Sat June 16th

Thursday

Martin de Candre
HJM 31 P8
Muhle R41 (2011) + Feather
Rose water, Aloe Vera
Floid
ASL Aqua Velva

Very good shave.
Have a nice day!
Angel.

Thursday

A day off work today to take Bailey into hospital for blood tests, the dentist and a review. All is OK. I loved watching him play in the play room; he’s a very sociable boy. In the hospital canteen he waved to a bunch of doctors and nurses that came in and would NOT be ignored; he didn’t give up until they said hello.

The shave that started the day was with the new Edwin Jagger Sea Buckthorn soap I bought yesterday. I’m normally more of a cream guy, rather than a soap guy, but with my current obsession of staying away from Sodium Laurel Sulphates and the like soaps appear to be a better option. This soap is great. I haven’t had a lot of experience with shaving soap, so I’m no expert at them, but this lathered really easily. The puck is quite small, but it fitted into a little mortar bowl I had perfectly. The bowl may be a TAD small (some lather escapes) but it holds the puck nice and firmly; so no slopping around in the dish. I think it looks good too. I did consider a dish with a lid, and I still might, but maybe it isn’t necessary. After all, who ever puts hand soap in a bowl with a lid? My only criticism of this soap would be that it doesn’t have a strong scent; I like STRONG scents. Also, even though it’s apparently 99.9% natural (and I’m hoping that .1% isn’t pure poison) I don’t know what the ingredients actually are. This is more about my lack of knowledge than anything, though. For all I know Sodium Palm Kernelate might be growing wildly in my back yard, or on the mountaintops of Tibet, or might be gathered by kindly fishermen from the bottom of the Norwegian Fjords…


Razor: Burrell Top Flight| Soap: Edwin Jagger Sea Buckthorn | After Shave: Pinaud Clubman

Originally Posted by lu20vt

...Dopo Barba Camaldoli...

I'll have to Google what ever that bottle is. Whatever it is I want one...

Originally Posted by Zephyr

Congrats on the mentorship Carl!

Why thank you. I should point out that (as I wrote today to someone) it must be stated that, like Sergeant Schulze from that TV show 'Hogan's Heroes', I know nothing.
I agreed to have a go at writing or re-writing or whatever some stuff for the Wiki (Library) and so this honour was bestowed upon me (with all the responsibility it brings) to enable a balance in the cosmos. I'm keeping my User Title (plausibly implausible) so that that everyone knows I'm not a REAL mentor, I'm like one of those clown doctors like that have at the hospital...

:-)

Originally Posted by Mikael

I hope you didn't use the two Swedes together though, I hope ..

Yeah! I didn't even think about them both being Swedish! :-)

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I'm not a REAL mentor, I'm like one of those clown doctors like that have at the hospital...

LOL, every institution needs one, why should this place be an exeption

What a beautiful looking razor zephyr, love the white scales and the blue wedge absolute stunner.


Jamie.

Prep: 2 mile run, lukewarm shower
Razor: Torrey Barber Tip
Brush: VDH Boar
Soap: Arko Shavestick
AS: Skin Bracer
Finish: Murray and Lanman's Florida Water
Stash Goo: DAX High and Tight
Results: Very nice relaxing 3 pass shave. Too bad I've got to ruin a great morning by spending the rest of the day at work I've been on an Arko kick this week. I'm not new to it but you know, this stuff is just plain old no BS, great shaving soap. It effortlessly produces gobs of lather and delivers a great shave every single time. No background today but I did play around with some overlays, I call this one Panama Ultra Fina.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

What a beautiful looking razor zephyr, love the white scales and the blue wedge absolute stunner.


Jamie.

Thanks Jamie, Max did an amazing job and put every expectation I had to shame

Razor: 5/8 HM Christensen
Prep: hot water
Brush: None
Soap: Barbasol
A/S: Joop Homme
Result: An OK shave



I triedl something stupid with my VDH brush yesterday and ended up with it being very oily. I thought I got the oil out, but it still seemed oily this morning and knocked down any lather that I managed to start to build. I already had Barbasol on my face for preshave prep, so I just went with it. I haven't tried that since my first attempts with a straight. It went better than that, actually the result was decent. The razor felt very dry I I didn't try a touch up pass. All in all it was acceptable.

Strop: MickR's Roo Hide
Brush: Comoy Badger
Soap: MWF
Razor: Unknown Sheffield Wedge
Astringent: Thayer's Witch Hazel
A/S: Aqua Velva Ice Blue
I just had the urge to use this razor tonight. You guys know how that is.
2 passes left me feeling clean and smooth. I love wedges.

Thanks for the great posts and pics boys.
Grant

Originally Posted by Wullie

I bought this one off ebay. It is a Frederick Reynolds and it was pretty rough. Straightened up the edge and polished out the scales.

Beautiful razor, congratulations on the great shave.


Carl, thanks for the Bailey update

Grant