Prep: Hot shower + cold splash
Soap: TOBS Mr. Taylor shaving cream
Brush: Custom Badger SilverTip 24mm
Razor: SS 5/8 Dovo
Shave: 1 pass WTG
A/S: Pinaud Clubman Virgin Island Bay Rum
I'm sad to add that this will probably be the last time I use TOBS' cream here at home. TOBS cream seems to dislike hard water and here in Milan we have a terribly hard water... The lather's performances are just terrible here, nothing comparable with the performance I get with the same cream when I visit my parents near Venice.
I'll ship the remaining bowl of TOBS Mr. Taylor to my brother on monday and I'll only retain the tube that I'll mix with cella or valobra in order to get a decent result. Techniques helps and I can shave pretty well with TOBS here, but it's not comparable at all with other soaps.
Just to give you an metric, if I can value TOBS performance to 9 at my parent's home, here in Milan I would only give it a 5...