Thread: Sun June 10th - Sat June 16th

Good morning friends!

PREP: Proraso Preshave Cream
BRUSH: 23 mm Vie-Long 16510 Silvertip Badger Shaving Brush
SOAP/CREAM: Musgo Real Shaving Cream
SCUTTLE / BOWL: Fitjar Lathering Up Shaving Bowl
RAZOR: Frederick Reynolds
STROP: Kanayama Cordovan #60000
SHAVE: 2 passes, WTG/XTG
AS: Musgo Real After Shave Balsam
RESULT: BBS shave



Have a nice day,
Béla

On my way to work this morning while driving I found myself rubbing my face. I realized what a great shave I had yesterday afternoon since I was still CFB smooth. Nice when you get a great shave.

Great way to start the day.

A Picture for the day:

Tuesday

After yesterday’s slightly harsh shave with the newly honed Burrell, I was looking forward to the soft feel of the wade and Butcher. I took it easy, with only a single pass, but ran over yesterdays’ nick (I can’t believe how stupid I am sometimes). The Body Shop Macca Root shave cream is such a good cream I swear it would lather with a dry brush and a dry bowl! The Truefitt and Hill Trafalgar Aftershave was a gentlemanly delight as always.

While stropping, I thought about a question posted on the forum about ‘over stropping’, and if it is indeed possible. I always strop 30/70, and I’ve never used paste nor a paddle strop, or anything other than my Dovo strop. I feel that 30/70 works great for me. At this point I’m not going to try and experiment with more or less and try and evaluate the result; there’s too many variables and it’s too subjective. However, I feel that if ever I was asked the question if it’s possible to over strop, I’d say over stropping is possible when you strop so much your form is affected. This could be at 40, 50, 60 whatever. I myself wouldn’t want to strop over 70, as I feel my mind wandering a little at that point.

Cufflinks of the day are vintage brass Royal Artillery cufflinks. I thought Moonbeam might appreciate them. At the School of Artillery which sat high on the North Heads above Manly near Sydney, close to famous beaches and iconic landmarks like the Manly ferry everything metal was made of brass. The school was like a castle, or English school. Below is a photo of me looking very clean and polished and young with the Surface to Air Missile system I was learning to operate. The photo was taken in '87. I'm on the far left of the picture with my hat pulled stylishly over my eyes.

Those were the days my friend, I thought they’d never end…

Razor: Wade and Butcher by my friend Nathan| Cream: Body Shop Macca Root | After Shave: Truefitt and Hill Trafalgar

Originally Posted by fonthunter

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Béla, this look beautiful, it looks colour coordinated; with the green and then the red from the scales picked up in the brush and Muso Real label...

Originally Posted by moonbeam

Congrats Carl on your Mentorship,I now have a reference point. " Aiming Point Director!....Bearing....Mount Torrens..Down Under"
(Moonbeam

Ha! I only just read this after I posted my SOTD! Isn't it funny we're both thinking artillery stuff? I loved director drills, driving all over the place in a mad dash scouting for sites! I reckon it'd be a lot easier now with GPS, but I wonder how many people can navigate map to ground accurately without a GPS these days.

Carl,
Love the creases in the sleeves. Someday, I'm going to have to take a trip out there. It just seems like an extremely long airplane ride. I need to travel for pleasure more. Once the kids are done with college I'll break free of my local bonds.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Béla, this look beautiful, it looks colour coordinated; with the green and then the red from the scales picked up in the brush and Muso Real label...

Thank you Carl. I'm glad you like it.

Originally Posted by Mvcrash

...Someday, I'm going to have to take a trip out there. It just seems like an extremely long airplane ride. I need to travel for pleasure more. Once the kids are done with college I'll break free of my local bonds...

See, I don't actually GET what people like about Australia, it seems messy to me, and a lot of stuff all, a LOT of stuff all. For miles and miles and miles. It HAS got some nice bits, but they're in between lot of boring bits. Now I like the nice tidy country roadways I see on English shows, or cobble streets in European cities, with buildings that have been there for a LONG time. I like the hilly foresty parts of your country, though I'm not overly taken with the cities, they scare the shit out of me...

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Béla,



Ha! I only just read this after I posted my SOTD! Isn't it funny we're both thinking artillery stuff? I loved director drills, driving all over the place in a mad dash scouting for sites! I reckon it'd be a lot easier now with GPS, but I wonder how many people can navigate map to ground accurately without a GPS these days.

Yup,we Gunners will always be Gunners,talking about accuracy,Col Don Reid will penalized you should you missed by 0.00001mils with the Director
(Moonbeam

Prep Simple Soap
Razor Maxotte High Grade
Brush Simpson Chubby 1 in super
Shaving Cream Vulfix Persian Musk
Alum & Witch Hazel
L'Occitane Baux Balm
Penhaligon's Castile EDT

Jamie.

WTG XTG with minor clean up, thee most tricky razor i own, be particulary careful with that extremly sharp toe, or she will get you, just on the cheek nothing much but a nick none the less.

[QUOTE=carlmaloschneider;978455]Tuesday


Cufflinks of the day are vintage brass Royal Artillery cufflinks. I thought Moonbeam might appreciate them. At the School of Artillery which sat high on the North Heads above Manly near Sydney, close to famous beaches and iconic landmarks like the Manly ferry everything metal was made of brass. The school was like a castle, or English school. Below is a photo of me looking very clean and polished and young with the Surface to Air Missile system I was learning to operate. The photo was taken in '87. I'm on the far left of the picture with my hat pulled stylishly over my eyes.

Those were the days my friend, I thought they’d never end…

Me,the no hair one,with my ex -student,now a Lt Col in the Regiment.
(moonbeam