Thread: Sun August 5th - Sat August 11th

5/8 Vintage Garanti-Solingen, Full Hollow Ground, Round Point
Kanayama No. 3 Strop
Simpson Duke 2 Best
JabonMan Lavanda Soap
Cold Water Rinse
Spanish Floid Blue
D'Orsay Arome 3 EdT

Shower
Pre : RR King Louis shaving Gel
Blade : Bolzano # 05
Scuttle : Robert Becker #1
Razor : Merkur Futur satin polish
Brush : Franks Silvertip Large
Soap / Cream : RR XXX
AS : PEREJA + RR Wax

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Edwin Jagger best badger
Soap: Truefitt & Hill: Luxury Shaving Soap
Strop: Tony Miller Heirloom tri-strop (3x25)
Razor: Genco Army & Navy
ASB: Geo. F. Trumper – Lime Skin Food

The mustache is trimmed, and the rest of my face is sticky smooth.
I'm ready for an afternoon / evening instructing on the range. I hope i get the time to do a little shooting too.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

The piece of wood in the photo is a piece I found in the ...

So, you like a good piece of wood,do you!?

Originally Posted by fonthunter

Mikael,
very nice vintage look solution of your pic. Congratulations!

Cheers,
Béla

Cheers Belá! I got lucky on an auction we went to (here on our holiday).

Originally Posted by JoeSomebody

I had one of those razors Mikael. My oldest son "borrowed" it to start straight shaving and I have not seen it since. Great Shavers, so I don't blame him.

Sure are sweet shavers, I was surprised how good it's, not for a heavy stubble day, but never the less an excellent shaver.

Wednesday

Prep: Myrsol emulsión
Brush: Simpson The Colonel X2L
Razor: Mondesir Special 6/8"
Cream: Geo F Trumper Rose
Post: alum + Myrsol metilsol
AS: Institut Karité ASB



Have a nice day, gentlemen

Originally Posted by csrund

...The extra photos today are images of my grandfather on the streets of Grosseto during WWII. Granddad survived the Great Depression, the war, a career on the police force, lung cancer, heart attacks and other ailments, but at age 89, he wasn't strong enough to K.O. pneumonia one more time. The family is gathering today to say our final goodbyes...

he sounds like a tough guy, in the truest sense of the world. Sorry for your loss. Peace be with you...

Carl

Originally Posted by Mikael

...So, you like a good piece of wood,do you!?...

Oh dear, Oh dear. No wonder Sweden has a thriving porn industry with guys like you in the country :-)

Originally Posted by Mephisto

...In my recent search for a wedge type razor; I found the Jones and Thomas. The dealer knocked off 4 dollars so I could not resist. I ended up paying 10 bucks. Only thing I did to the razor was hone it and swap out the scales...

Nice razor, nice patina, I love patina, patina rules...

Thursday

Very smooth shave with the Wade and Butcher today. I love how smooth this razor is. It’s not my honing, it’s the steel. I hadn’t used O Melhor for ages, and didn’t make a good lather, adequate, but not good. The Madame’s After Shave was excellent on the skin, as always.

Today, while driving home past fields of yellow canola crops, my car kept pace with a flock of swallows wheeling through the air. For a time we were traveling at the same speed; them at window height, flying sideways at times to show me the colours under their wings. One feels a comradeship with nature at such times. I’d like to post the whole poem, but I’m afraid I may just annoy you, so I’ll post just the first and last:

Amends to Nature

Arthur Symons

I have loved colours, and not flowers;
Their motion, not the swallow’s wings;
And wasted more than half my hours
Without the comradeship of things.

I feel, in every midge that hums,
Life, fugitive and infinite,
And suddenly the world becomes
A part of me and I of it.


Razor: Wade and butcher Special | Cream: O Melhor | After Shave |Madame Scodioli ‘Step Right Up’

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I'd love it if someone could tell me how to actually BUY the stuff. Whenever I go to that web page I get utterly confused and don't know if I'm buying a duck, soap or a bowl of porridge...

I'm sure there was an English section of their site back in 2010 when I got mine. The shipping was stupidly expensive as well, which I believe there was some attempt to reduce in 2011. Have a search on the soaps and creams page - I am sure there have been several threads on the subject.

Robert Wiliams 8/8 Damascus | Rover | Arlington | Lucido | Blenheim Bouquet

This shave was much more like it! The Rover worked effortlessly on the Arlington, which yielded an amazing pillowy lather. And the Damascus and ivory piece of art that is this razor simply wiped away two days worth of growth with nary a glance at the two healing cuts from Monday's gaff. After two passes and some cleanup, my Hollywood mug was smooth and soft. The Lucido was, as usual, a phenomenal way to reset the skin. And the Blenheim Bouquet is simply regal.

You gentlemen have been putting together some awesome shaves this week, and I want to thank you for sharing them and for allowing me to submit my meager additions to this incredible collection!

Wednesday

PREP: Hot shower + Nyasha Black Facial Cleansing Bar
CREAM/SOAP: Castle Forbes Sandalwood and Cedarwood Shaving Cream
BRUSH: 23mm Omega - Boar
RAZOR: 6/8 P.MORIAU-frameback
STROP: Scrupleworks 3"
BOWL/SCUTTLE: soup bowl
POST: Osma Alum + Alpa + Fitjar K3 Extra