Thread: Sun - January 20th - Sat January 26th

Monday

Average shave with the Klas Törnblom today. This razor needs a hone as well as a polish. I’ve never actually polished my razors before, only an actually light restore with wet and dry. I’ll need to research what sort of polish that’s available here in Australia might be suitable.

Boring day today; nothing to really talk about. Did yoga with Bailey yesterday, he called it ‘yoghurt’. You need to pronounce ‘yoghurt’ as we South Australian’s do; with a long ‘o’ as in ‘yowgurt’ to get the link between it and yoga.

Originally Posted by jhenry

Prep: Hot shower -- followed by Vitos pre-post-shave cream
SS/SC: Mitchell’s Wool Fat + Castle Forbes “Lime” Essential Oil
Brush: Vie-Long 6910 Silvertip Badger
Strop: SRD Premium IV Bridle Leather - 50 fabric; 60 leather
Razor: 6/8” Revisor “Extra”
Toner: Thayers “Original” Witch Hazel w/ Aloe Vera
ASB: Creed “Green Irish Tweed”
EDC: Creed “Green Irish Tweed”
Result: An outstanding shave!

That looks like one mighty royal shave!! I bet the queen of England doesn't get that (equivalent) kind of treatment for her face!

Kent T4
Creed Original Vetiver SS
Le Grelot 6/8, quarter grind
Roger & Gallet L'Homme ASB
Amouage Epic Man

An excelent shave today with the following setup:

-Shaving Soap: Taylor of Old Bond Street, Jermyn Street
-Brush: Semogue 2000
-Staight Razor: Cadman & Sons, Bengall 13/16"
-ASL: Floid Suave + 444 gel

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I’ll need to research what sort of polish that’s available here in Australia might be suitable.

Autosol is the go, you can find it at places like Supacheap Auto for less than 10 bucks a tube and it's great stuff.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Did yoga with Bailey yesterday, he called it ‘yoghurt’.

Originally Posted by harrygr

Staight Razor: Cadman & Sons, Bengall 13/16"

Thats a sweet looking Bengall

Grant

Shave prep Evening shave, just a hot splash of water on my face
Brush: D.R. Harris
Preshave: Proraso Pre
Soap: Martin De Candre
Scuttle: Simple soup bowl
Razor: Filarmonica DT #14
Strop: Kanayama 20 canvas strokes and 60+ strokes on the leather
After Shave Splash: Nivea aftershave Balm

Notes:
Kept the number of strokes down as the DT#14 is always killer sharp and it more than once ruined my face!
MDC certainly limited the ‘damage’ to only a couple of weepers. A smooth shave nonetheless.

Paul

Proraso|G5|AOS Badger|MWF|PJM'Square Deal'|Proraso|Iggy's Balm

This razor always delivers! BBS in 3 passes, what a fantastic way to start a long week.
Have a Great Monday Gents!

Carl, so glad to hear Bailey is doing better!

Hot Shower, Ice Water Splash, 1960 Fat Boy, Semogue 1305, Tabac Shavestick, Pinaud Lilac Vegetal

You know, Tabac was on my try list for the better part of 5 years, now I'm really kicking myself for not trying it sooner, it really is the real deal. I like it a lot. My other amazing discovery is Dorco Stainless Steel Blades. I can get a box of 10 for $2 and change at a place down by work. Really nice!

My wife got me some Tabac AS for christmas. It is the only soap I have that I bought a second puck of, Great stuff!

This was the maiden voyage for a new brush made by our own Joe Somebody. If he keeps demonstrating craftsmanship of this caliber, though, he might just make a name for himself someday!

The brush and stand are both in bog oak (if I'm not mistaken). Joe turned the handle, and demonstrated a very smooth hand in doing so. The proportions are very nice and it fits in the hand well. The badger knot is set a bit shorter (I don't actually have anything here at the house to measure the loft), which meant it worked very nicely for the Windsor soap I used to break it in this morning. It performed flawlessly and led to a wonderful holiday morning shave with the Revisor. Finished everything off with some Chanel Coromandel, and I'm off to the office to enjoy the "day off..."