Thread: Sun December 09th - December 15th

Razor – TI 69 Frameback
Brush –BASSGUY Solo-man 5000 combo badger boar
Soap – DR Harris lavender
AST – ALUM
AS – Aesop Marrakech

Here’s a great shaver. This one houses a spare blade in the box. BASSGUY made the brush. It’s a great little brush.
Mike

No shave today



Cheers Carl, thank you very much!! We've this on the ground (from our back yard):

Sunday 9th December

Hot shower and Facial Scrub
Proraso Sensitive Pre/Post Cream
Dovo Olivewood 5/8 in SS
New Forest Tubby 1
Nannys Cedarwood & Vetiver Soap
Lucky Tiger AS/Toner
Organic Shea Butter
Yardley Citrus & Wood Edt
Morgans Classic Pomade

Another close and comfortable shave. I am off on my travels this afternoon and have yet to decide if I should pack a couple of GDs and a strop or just use a Shavette type. Anyways....I won't be checking in much until Friday.

Sunday


Bakelite Slant/Weber Wave Handle
Personna Hospital Blade
Proraso Eucalyptus & Menthol Shave Cream
Vie-Long Butterscotch Beehive Horsehair
Nivea Sensitive Post Shave Balm
TOBS St James After Shave

Prep - Hot Towel, Palmolive S/S
Razor - Muhle '11 R41
Blade - Astra S/P
Brush - GOSH Heritage
Soap - Mudder Focker
Cold Rinse/ Witch Hazel/ Musgo Real

it's been a few weeks since I last used the Mudder Focker.... AMAZING!!

A belated post
Saturday late night / Sunday very early morning
Hot water prep
John Creswick Celebrated razor - New Forest 2223 badger brush - Coate's SC - cold water splash - Truefit & HIll 1805 ASB - hot towel - D.R. Harris Arlington AS

Technically, I didn't really need to shave, but I needed the relaxation. The Creswick is a fine blade. The patina and pitting comes out really hard in this picture, but in real life this blade looks just fine and is one of those ones that you just don't want a mirror shine on... The shave relaxed me, had a hot shower afterwards and slept like a rock after that.

Pre - Alum block
Strop - 3 inch bridle leather/hard felt
Brush - SOC 2 band badger
Razor - Premier Cutlery Co "Premier King"
Soap - Vitos Red+TBS Macca Root with 3 drops glycerin, 1 drop lanolin and 1 drop African Black Soap
Scuttle - Robert Becker
Post - Alum Block followed with Thayers witch hazel

Revisited the hones since yesterdays shave with this razor. Huge improvement today with yesterday's irritation virtually gone for a good close and comfortable 3 pass shave. Need to improve my honing skills.

Added the Black African Soak to see what it would do as a single drop of this stuff produces tremendous amounts of lather when you wash your face with it. Not sure it did much with this uber lather so tomorrow I will try it with a single soap and see what happens.

Have a good shave and enjoy your day of rest.

Bob

Almond pre-shave oil
Spaulding shaving cream
Clinique after shave balm
Omega boar
Wacker Chevalier
Coti touch up

9 DECEMBER 2012

* Weber PH + UFO U2V1 SS Handle
* Super Iridiums
* WSP Monarch 2-band
* Mystic Water Bay Rum
* Thayers
* Unrefined Shea Butter

Hey all. Yesterday I was able to meet up with a fellow SRP member, Magpie. He was kind enough to show me how to hone up my new vintage straight from start to finish and I gotta tell you I got a great shave from it. He was a super nice guy and it was great to be able to meet someone from the forum!!

Pre: Hot Shower
Brush: Pure Badger
Cream: Art of Shaving Lavender
Razor: Perry Niagra
Post: Clubman Aftershave followed by Real Shaving Company Balm.