Thread: Sun June 24th - Sat June 30th

Gentlemen, here is today's shave bill:

Razor: iKon OSS
Blade: Feather
Brush: Rooney super
Cream: Body Shop Macca Root
Pre-shave: Edwin Jagger
Face lather
Scuttle: Moss
Alum
Witch hazel
Balm: Institute Karite
Aftershave: Lagerfeld

Originally Posted by TheXelol

I was in hospital for an MRI of the head (brain).

Hope all is (or will be) OK.

Originally Posted by fonthunter

This is a very nice rabbit Angel!
B.

Thanks Béla, you're very kind.

Angel.

Today's shave was proof positive that you do not have to spend a lot to get a FANTASTIC shave!!!

13/16" Clauss - Got in a trade for a barbers hone from Rene, I just ran it over the 8k, 12k and 300 laps on the strops.
24mm Silvertip - under 15$ from LarryAndro
VDH soap - a gift for under 5$ from my son for fathers day
Aqua Velva AS - a Walgreens buy, another gift for Fathers day from my youngest son. An oldie but goodie. Wife loves it.
British Sterling - part of a sampler set my wife picked up on the cheap at KMart.

All told this whole shave costs under 20$ and can be repeated dozens of times before any of the ingredients expire.

I have a whole new appreciation for VDH as I have figured out the formula that allows it to make some amazingly thick and smooth lather. A couple of shavings, very thin, of it in the bowl the night before with just a tiny amount of water. Whipped like crazy just before showering and by the time I'm clean and ready to go, it has thickened up and with just a little more whipping it is top notch!!!

Today it's over 100 degrees (in the shade) and you would think we live in Las Vegas or Phoenix not the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. I took a cool shower and shaved with cold water. It was refreshing and soothing. After giving the Clauss a touch up on the stones and stropping the heck out of it, it was a wonderful shave. I wish everyone could get and enjoy such a shave as this one was.

Enjoy your week gentlemen!!

M

Monday
Brush: Vie-Long Horse
Soap/Creme: Proraso Green
Razor: Valet Autostrop
Blade: Gem SS PTFE
Pre: 3P
Post: Proraso balm
Result: DFS

Tuesday
TI O'Wing|Pegasus III Strop|ADP Cream|Aesop's Bitter Orange Astringent|Brut AS|Cade Balm

Gave a minor change to the ritual,started off with an ATG thro'out,then followed by the other 'Gs'.After the Cade balm settled down,found out there is 1 lone grey guy way down the neck,called the O'Wing and popped him out.Followed Carl's advice,'map the face' and got a BBS today.

The morale is very very high today coz I managed to fire-up the Kawasaki Z1R last nite after months of trying to find out out what went wrong with the new wiring harness,just a matter of wrongly connected terminals at the coils.Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooo!
Have a great shave to all.

(Moonbeam

Good morning friends!

PREP: Proraso Preshave Cream
BRUSH: 22 mm Rooney Small Style 2 Silvertip Best Badger
SOAP/CREAM: Proraso Soap
SCUTTLE / BOWL: Fitjar Lathering Up Shaving Bowl
RAZOR: 6/8" Filarmonica 13 Doble Temple, Round Point
STROP: Kanayama Cordovan #60000
SHAVE: 2 passes, WTG/XTG
AS: Proraso Liquid Cream After Shave
RESULT: Comfortable, BBS shave



Have a nice day,
Béla

Prep Botanics Face Scrub
Razor Soligen Iron Duke in Welsh Yew 6/8
Brush Le Tuft Une Grande
Vulfix Persian Musk
Alum & Witch Hazel
Neil's Yard Rose Moisturiser
Penhaligon's Castile EDT

Jamie.

The Duke as always been a smooth and comfortable shaver and today proved no different.

Tuesday

Nice shave this AM with the W&B. I love the smooooothness of this razor. As I shaved, I considered that I have an impending appointment at some time in the near future with my 14 year old son to teach him how to shave. He says he needs to, which he doesn’t, but I’m not going to tell him that. I’m a bit worried about the whole thing. Teaching my older (21 year old) son how to shave with a straight was fine, but Joel is a witty, sarcastic, opinionated arsehole, as many 14 year olds are; and he excels at it. It’s just possible that he has inherited the trait from me. Anyway, I decided the most important thing to pass on is lightness of touch. That and the angle. I could start off slow and teach him to use a DE, but he could do with some coolness points at school so a straight it is.


Razor: Wade and Butcher Special (about a 5/8) | Soap: Mme Scodioli ‘Boheme’ | After Shave: Mme Scodioli ‘Step Right Up’

No shave, fell asleep early last night.