Thread: Sun November 25th - Sat December 01st

Valobra Stick // Simpsons Duke 3 Super Badger // Wacker / GEM Junior // Thayers // Tobacco Aftershave

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Simpson Polo 14
Razors: Klas Törnblom + GEM Junior (for head)
Soap: Dr Harris Almon + Proraso cream
AS: TOBS Victorian Lime + Tiger face lotion
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean indeed
This very nice but huge brush dwarfs this 7/8 blade and need twice the amount of soap compared to Chubby 2.

MONDAY
Hot shower prep
Razor: 6/8ths+ Wostenholm Pipe ` 1880’s
Soap: P-160
Mug: Staffordshire
Brush: Boar
Aftershock: Alum block
Splash: none
I do wish I had not had to remove an 1/8th inch chip from the middle of the edge! Still, in all, the Pipe was a good shaver. another trip to the hones and perhaps a new set of scales will be in order. I still do not particularly care for P-160 but I am learning to whip it more correctly for my face.

The fun of trying things makes the day go a bit better and quicker!

~Richard

Monday


Titan H1
Kai Blade
KMF Key Lime Shave Cream
Semogue LE TSN 11/100 2012
Nivea Sensitive Post Shave Balm
Aqua Lavanda Puig

Monday 26th November

Hot shower and Facial Scrub
Proraso Sensitive Pre/Post cream
Dovo Olive Wood 5/8 Stainless
Frank Shaving Warwick Silvertip
Salters French Vetyver Shaving Cream
Myrsol Metilsol
Organic Shea Butter
James Bronnley Gentlemans EDT
Dax Superneat

I havent used this razor much. The result was perfect...but to me.....the blade is not as sharp as a carbon equivalent

Hot shower,warm oil
Dirty Bird Scuttle
Truefitt and Hill Almond shave cream
Custom badger brush
Dubl Duck Hand Forged 5/8 full hollow
SRD P1 100 laps
Razorock Aluminum
Pinaud Clubman
Vaseline for men

Nice, close, comfortable shave.

Monday 26th
Brush: Omega Boar
Razor: Dovo Pirma
Soap: Nanny's Ice & a Slice
Post: Alum followed by Boots Freshwood balm/Azzaro PH mix

Tuesday

The Jernbolaget is certainly no beauty, but it’s got soul and a nice edge. With a slightly tightened pivot pin I enjoyed it more (I hate a loose razor). It’s hard for me of little skill to tighten the pivot on a razor with leather scales; I’m worried about wrecking them. I guess what this razor really needs is to be re-furbished by someone, but I do like its shabbiness and the forced patina I created. I imagine it looks like a razor an old Swedish sea captain would have used in the ‘30s…The Bay Rum matches that image. The old C O Bigelow cream did its job well on a foggy but warm morning.

Kent T4
DR Harris Windsor SS
Filly 13 DT, white scales
Roger & Gallet L'Homme ASB
Chanel Sycomore

Prep L'Occitane Cedarwood Soap
Razor Wade & Butcher 7/8
Strop Kanayama Cordovan #8000
Brush simpson M7 LE Finest Silvertip
Shaving Cream GFT Coconut Oil
Alum & Witch Hazel
Una Brennan Moisturiser
Penhaligon's Castile Edt.


A very smooth two pass shave from the old timer.