Thread: Sun - January 13th - Sat January 19th

Invicta Razor
MWF Shaving Soap
House of Lukaya Salve
Lilac Vegetal Aftershave Lotion



Great Shave! The salve came in handy with the cuts have given myself lately. Dag on spike points. Anyway, it is made locally and the hippy store was out of Skincado. All the other players did an excellent job. Well, it has been about a year since I picked up a straight razor. In that time I have managed to learn a few things. I am still bewildered but you all have made the journey enjoyable. Posting here gave me the gumption to keep at it even though I wanted to throw it all in trash. Admittedly, I made it harder on myself by picking up honing but I survived. So thanks to all that post and will here on SOTD. Oh yeah, thanks to Maxmillian...I guess.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I had a massive bowl of porridge for breakfast and a cappuccino and went indoor bouldering with my son again. We now have little bouldering nicknames. I'm 'Grunts' and he's 'The Grim Reacher'. I had an excellent session; we were the only ones there. We did a few of the problems we do as a warm up and then decided to try and climb all the way from one side of the gym to the other. I’m really loving this sport; it’s such a good workout; and every ‘set’ (problem) is done to failure; when you literally fall through lack of strength to hold on. After a little while I had a really good pump in my biceps, shoulders and back.

I got my razor and stuff out to take a photo and started to arrange it when my grandson Bailey asked what I was doing. I told him it was hard to explain. Then I had the idea of taking a photo of him using it. He’s such a bundle of Joy.

Helluva way to spend the day! I remember enjoying bouldering/climbing when I was about 70lbs lighter...

No shave today, just a new picture:

Prep - None
Strop - Paciccella (by paciccio)
Razor - Henckels Friodur 50 1/2 5/8
Soap - Cella
Brush - Omega 48
Post - Alum block followed with Floid Balsam

Saturday 19th January

Hot shower and facial scrub
Vitos Pre/Post Cream
Sanguine shavette/Treet carbon Blade
Semogue SOC Boar in Ash
Erasmic Shaving Cream
Simply Facial Toner
Organic Shea Butter
Barbershop Bay Rum AS
Morgans Classic Pomade
Mr Kings Marvellous Moustache Wax

Out this evening for a Murder Mystery Birthday Party so I am travelling light. I had a very nice 3 pass shave with the shavette and I managed to use half of one of the thousands of DE blades I will probably never use!

Lukewarm Shower, Ice Water Splash, Wm. Elliot and Co., Omega Boar, Cella, Lemon Grass Witch Hazel, Acqua Di Selva EdC

IMHO, both Cella and AdS should be considered Italian National Treasures. Both are absolutely brilliant. The shave was a nice break from studying and finishing up papers. Time for a rub of Grizzly Snuff and a cup of coffee. Lots of reading to do if I'm gonna take tomorrow off to watch football.

green day ..not the band

Originally Posted by baldy

Wow, he's growing up too. How's the arm coming along, having any luck?

The arm is doing OK. The fibula has started to knit to the humerus. It's (the upper arm) is maybe an inch shorter that his other arm at the moment. He goes back to the bone surgeon in April. I guess then we may find out when the bone lengthening operations start. he had a heart function test and a few other tests the other day and he's OK in that regard (they do those as you probably know to see if the Chemo affected the organs). The arm doesn't seem to bother him a lot these days.

I hope Jackie is doing well too!

Originally Posted by ojinsa

Helluva way to spend the day! I remember enjoying bouldering/climbing when I was about 70lbs lighter...

Tell ya what, I'm sore all over today!

No shave on Friday.

Saturday:

Pre - hot shower and eShave lime oil
Razor - 5/8 Joseph Rodgers and Sons
Brush - Simpsons Chubby 3 - best badger
Superlather - MWF + eShave Lime - maybe my fav superlather so far
AS - eShave lime