Thread: Sun July 15th - Sat July 21st

Originally Posted by mjhammer

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That's really, really cool. I love the barter system, should be more of it, I say.

BUT, more to the point, you say your wife has a 'lazy day'. Just one! Mine told me they get five! Whats up!!!

First weekend off since the mid-June. Did a whole lot of nothing. A special patient gave me a vintage Dubl Duck brush a few months ago. I had it restored/re-knotted and have been looking for a "matching Dubl Duck" razor since that time. Found what looked to be a nice Satinedge. It arrived Friday and I thought I would give it a try this morning. Sanitized it yesterday, stropped it on ChromOx pasted balsa x 30, followed by diamond pasted felt x 30, then latigo leather bench top x 80.

Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Pre: Hot shower, Nivea face wash, Nivea face scrub
Soap: Proraso green
Brush: Restored vintage Dubl Duck "Barber's Brush -- For Professional Use" with silver tip badger
Scuttle: SWK XL
Razor: Dubl Duck Satinedge
Post: Thayer's Witch Hazel, Nivea Post Shave Balm

Result: The Satinedge handled three day's growth without any difficulty! Two passes, no nicks, no blood, CCS!!!

The Satinedge was a great shaver. Will definitely be in the regular rotation. Have a great week everyone!

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I know this sounds really weird, but that's lovely looking wood. I love a nice pile or fire wood that I've split, but we don't have birch or whatever that is here to burn; and gum (Eucalypt) is so different looking stacked for the fire...It's funny how the most simple things in different countries to one's own can strike one as so interesting...

At least for me. Your Mileage May Vary...

It's not weird at all, using wood as main heat source is a strong tradition up here, some dude even wrote a book about it a couple years ago, a book that went straight to the top of the bestseller list.....go figure.

Hel ved : alt om hogging, stabling og tørking - og vedfyringens sjel - Lars Mytting - Innbundet (9788248910497) » Bokkilden the page is in norwegian so I guess most of you won't understand squat, but you get the point

And yes, the wood in the stack is birch, very popular firewood here besides pine.

Monday:

Shower
Griffon 5/8 (The same one that sliced me last week)
20/60 Illinois 127
Mama Bear's Lime, Conk badger
Lucky Tiger balm
Bigelow 1582 cologne

No cuts, no drips, no errors.

Monday

Fitjar Shaving Soap, Miklagaard
HJM 31 P8 (Synthetic)
Futur with Feather
ASL Medicis
Floid MV

Nice scent. A good lather.
Very good shave.

Have a nice day, gents!

Angel

Prep: Hot Water Wash
Razor: Wm. Elliot and Co
Brush: VDH Boar
Soap: Mitchell's Wool Fat
AS: Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Finish: La Toja Manantiales, Firehouse Wacky Tacky for the stash
Result: Great Shave

Test shave. I ran both of these on the same progression. Shapton 1k nanwa 3,5,8,12. Then they were finished on a Jnat. Wonderfully sharp. Gave me a serious BBS sbave with no irritation. The best part. My girlfriend loves the smell of Tabac.

Tony Miller strop
TGN 24mm
Tabac Uber
Griffon xx & Henckles & Hammesfahr
WH
Sking food
Tabac AS

Gentlemen, here 's today's shave menu:

Razor: FaTip
Blade: Feather
Brush: Thater silvertip
Soap: Martin de Candre
Pre-shave: Edwin Jagger
Face lather
Scuttle: Moss
Alum
Witch hazel
Balm: Arko unscented
Aftershave: Royal Copenhagen

Monday
Prep: Hot Shower/ Proraso pre-post creme
Brush: Thater 4125-2
Scuttle: G5
Soap: MNS Lemongrass Eucalyptus
Razor:Charlex #60, 13/16" Oblique point
Post: Proraso AS, Nivea Lotion
Result: I got this off the bay last week and finally got a chance to dial it in. Set the bevel on the Nortons and finished on the Naniwa 12k, 50 laps on the strop and what a shave! This is the first time I skipped a day of shaving in a year, wow, that razor wiped the whiskers away effortlessly and I am off to work BBS and feeling like a king!

Have a Great Monday Gents!

JMP Medallon Taurino 14 // Martin de Candre unscented travel // Vielong EL 2011 2band // Locion La Toja Manantiales