Thread: December 3 - December 9

Hot shower

5/8 Aevos
proraso pre shave
classic shaving lime coconut
silver badger brush

Old spice


Ummmmmmmmm

Sun:

Rooney small style 1
T&H LSS
Hand American strop
6/8 Wacker stippleback
5/8 Kinfolks
Taylor's Bay Rum A/S

Today I'm testing the new Tam O'Shanter hone I got from SRP member coully, which I used to hone two razors last night with input from Joe Chandler. Thanks guys!

The Wacker was only honed on the TOS, the Kinfolks was honed on the TOS and finished on the chrome oxide paddle. I used the Wacker on the right cheek and the Kinfolks for everything else. The TOS Wacker wasn't quite as smooth as the CO Kinfolks or quite as sharp, but it was a lot closer than I would have believed beforehand. The Wacker is very hard and is prone to microchipping and has always been a bear to hone. I've always had to give it a lot of laps on the boron carbide paddle to get the edge smoothed out before going to the chrome oxide paddle, but the TOS is a slow enough cutter and leaves such a polished edge that it didn't microchip and left the edge about as polished as the boron carbide, maybe even a little better. Both razors shaved beautifully. I love the kinfolks razor, I haven't found an american razor yet that didn't shave as well as the best of the european makes. Although the euro razors usually look nicer the american razors are all go and no show.

Some more experiments are needed, but I'm feeling some serious love for this hone.

im glad and relieved you like it, thanks, simon

Hot Shower
Best Badger brush
Mama Bear Christmas Forest soap
TM Strop (50 round trips)
TI SRP razor
alum block
Pinaud Clubman AS

Monday

Shower
QED Pine 'n Cedar soap stick
TM Strop
Matt's maple burl best badger
5/8 Hess wedge
AOS Sandalwood gel
Penhaligon's Quercus

Good Monday mornin'

Jordan

Monday:

Rooney small style 1 brush
T&H LSS
Hand American strop
5/8 Heljestrand
Harris face milk

The 7/8 W&B Frameback was actually slotted for today in the rotation, but I bumped the little heljestrand up front just because it's such a dandy. Great shave too. I'll use the frameback tomorrow...

King Silver 5/8 spike
Vulfix 2197
SCS New Spice
Proraso A/S splash
Proraso pre-post

I'm getting better with my stropping and shaving, which is allowing me to get more from the smaller/thinner razors in my collection. My favourite 5/8 so far is a Tower roundpoint that is a little meatier than a full hollow.

Hot shower

6/8 Dovo horn handled
proraso pre shave
C&E sweet almond shaving cream
silvertip badger brush


C&E Nomad after shave balm

I don't even have to mention how the razor performed Today I used the C&E Sweet Almond Oil cream (worked up in the palm of my hand as my lathering bowl is being used for that Vetyver soap I created with Malizia and Colleen's formula samples). The cream performed extremely well. Too bad their soaps don't come anywhere near that level.

On the road in the frozen north, 75 miles north of Fargo ND

Omega Boar brush
Classicshaving citrus spice soap
6/8 Crown & Sword (homely but great shaver travel razor)
Forgot to pack my alum block
Near cardiac arrest from cold water splash - much colder here than Houston
C.O. Bigelow 1401 Bay Rum aftershave balm