Thread: November 19 - November 25

Mine today was awesome. No high end products at all but simply amazing!! Today I got to use my 6/8 worldmaster sheffield again. I just got it back from Bill on monday. He'd been kind enough to use Vlad's scale kit and put it on my worldmaster. Out of the enveloppe it looked amazing...it shaved just like it looked. I didn't know the cocobolo would turn out that nice. (I'm sorry ai didn't do it myself Vlad...I simply chickened out) But all polished and buffed up and even without finish it looks simply amazing!!!!

Anyway:
shower
Lush's Coalface facial scrub (use it everyday twice a day and my face has never been feeling this nice.)
50/50 boar badger brush from Kent
Czech peppermint shave cream..I forget the name..it's something like Don Quichotte or similar.
My awesome reloaded 6/8 Sheffield Steel Worldmaster with cocobolo scales.
Peppermint Bay rum. (Made by Axel and added peppermint by me)

It was wonderfull. The Worldmaster was dead on par with my 7/8 TI Sheffield. The cream was amazing and cooling (who'dve known for only $1,50) and the bay rum burned at first and then settled into peppermint coolness. Now the peppermint has faded and the bay rum can still be sampled.

Formula to happiness that was.

Tower 5/8 full hollow
Vulfix 2197 pure badger
Palmolive (European) crem
Alum
Proraso A/S splash
QED ASC

Week two of my straight shaving odessy - I'm not finding that it takes much longer than using a DE. My stropping seems to be getting better, but I think I'm going to be one of those guys who touches up his razors on a pasted paddle after 5-10 shaves, depending on the razor.

I'm still having to do some touch up with the DE - primarily around the chin and neck. I'm pretty comfortable on the N-S pass, getting better on the S-N pass, but won't be able to get a good shave unless I add an E-W or W-E pass (just the way my hair grows).

I'm going to take some time over the weekend to practice the tougher areas when I have more time.

Wed:

Rooney small style 1 brush
Gold Dachs Spezial soap
Hand American strop
5/8 Robeson Shuredge "The Captain"
Pinaud Clubman A/S

Just one pass today. Not BBS but about as smooth as a single-pass M3 shave, so I can live with it. I'm expecting some toys later today, and I want to be able to give them the old smoke test before I head out of town for t-day.

Hot Shower
TGQ Sandalwood Soap

5/8 Supplee Hardware spike
Tony Miller strop
Vulfix 374 silvertip
Tabac soap
Tabac AS



Terry

Shaving in a hurry today!

SCS Minted Chocolate Shaving Cream
Simpsons Duke 2 Badger Brush
The Body Shop Javari A/S Balm
A*Men Cologne.

RT

T-day

Rooney small style 1
Gold Dachs Spezial
Hand American strop
Wonderboy (TI Pierre-forged)
Harris Face Milk

Saw "The Pick of Destiny" last night, which finally inspired me with the name of this razor.

Griffon 5/8 full-hollow spike
Rooney #1 Large Silvertip
QED Lavender
Proraso A/S splas
Proraso pre-post

Nice shave - getting the hang of things - still some issues around the chin and spots on the neck, but practice will make perfect!

After taking the TEW to the chromium oxide, I reached a new level of AMAZING. The only issues I had with this shave were a painful zit I had as a secondary symptom of the food poisoning from 2 days ago and a left-handed slipup that created a bit of a burn but no nicks, during the third pass which was quite unnecessary as the first pass gave me a serviceable shave and the second pass was very close.

Mamabear's Sandalwood & Vanilla Soap
6/8 Carlton "The Hamburg Ring"
Alum block
Pinaud Clubman A/S

First time out with this razor, just finished cleaning/polishing, replacing the scales, and honing it last night. I wanted a particularly good shave for turkey day and was not disappointed.

A combination of Saint Charles Shave Minted Chocolate and Nancy Boy
shaving cream. Shavemac Silvertip badger, Mondesir 7/8 and topped off with A*MEN cologne.

RT