Thread: Sun July 01st - Sat July 07th

Friday

Friday’s shave posted late. I’ve just returned from a camping trip. I had an excellent two days; not a spot of rain, clear skies, but cold. We didn’t stray far from the fire; drank a carton of beer and solved many work social problems. Sat in the sun in arguably the best spot on earth (arguably, for me, at that point in time) and got some vitamin D. I WAS going to shave on a rocky outcrop jutting into the Southern Ocean, but being tied by an invisible string to the fire, carton of beer and responsibility of solving the world’s social problems and a poor attempt at it sat at a table put that idea out of the question.

This was my worse shave ever with a straight. The little plastic mirror I salvaged from my army camo kit sucked. The lather sucked, the prep sucked; I stropped on my belt. I discarded the plastic mirror for the rear vision mirror ripped from my car; which enabled much better (and less dangerous) results. Then my brother (right at the end) mentioned he’d bought a shaving mirror, fixed it to a tree and I finished the shave standing, as normal.

I know this sounds really obvious, but a well placed mirror make all the difference. I shall buy a shaving mirror.

PS, it took us at LEAST an hour to get the rear vision mirror back on the car...

Razor: De Pews| Soap: Arko Shave Stick| After Shave: Floïd

Prep L'Occitane Vetyver Soap
Razor Vintage Japanese Fon Golden Star
Brush Simpson M7 LE
Cream Simpson
Alum & Witch Hazel
Neil's Yard Rose Moisturiser
Penhaligon's Castile EDT.

Jamie.

I'm going to rename the Fon Golden Star, and call her the faultless Fon, what a great shaver this razor is, she delivered a beautiful shave.

Jamie,
I love your colors, ...and your Vintage Japanese Fon Golden Star.


Béla

Originally Posted by DFriedl

I think a pic is in order!

Only have a crappy cell pic from when it arrived...

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Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Simson, Polo 8
Razor: Max Sprecher, extreme french point
Super lather: Dr Hariis Almond + Proraso
AS: La Toja M
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean

L´Occitane Cade // Simpson Chubby 2-Band // Filarmonica SUB Cero 14 // Floris N.89 Aftershave

Originally Posted by amb

Nice shot, Luis.
I like your compositions.

Angel.

Thak you Angel!!

Originally Posted by fonthunter

Jamie,
I love your colors, ...and your Vintage Japanese Fon Golden Star.


Béla

Thank you Bela, i love using this razor, but what's more i really enjoy looking at this razor, it looks pretty good in the photo, but it's so much better in the flesh, i'm fairly hard to please and can pick minor faults with most things, but if i had to mark this razor out of 10, then she would recieve 10.

Jamie.

Originally Posted by Mikael

Razor: Max Sprecher, extreme french point

Great Maxtom and excellent photo Mikael!

Béla

Originally Posted by Mikael

[CENTER]Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Simson, Polo 8
Razor: Max Sprecher, extreme french point
Super lather: Dr Hariis Almond + Proraso
AS: La Toja M
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean

who, to hell, is Max Sprecher?
Never heard before...