Thread: Sun - February 10th - Sat February 16th

Good morning friends!

PREP: Proraso Preshave Cream
BRUSH: 23mm Mühle Sophist silvertip badger, in olive wood
SOAP/CREAM: Madame Scodioli - Fiji Mermaid (The Briny Deep)
SCUTTLE / BOWL: Fitjar Lathering Up Shaving Bowl
RAZOR: 8/8" BUDDEL Custom (w/ Desert ironwood scales)
STROP: Kanayama Cordovan #60000
SHAVE: 2 passes, WTG/XTG
AS: J&E Atkinson's I COLONIALI, Sooting Aftershave Emulsion with Rhubarb
COLOGNE: Madame Scodioli - Step Right Up (Cedar, Saffron + Vetyver)
RESULT: Excellent, BBS shave



Have a nice day,
Béla

Originally Posted by hitemfrank

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Very cool pop art :-)

Originally Posted by sashimi

Ali's Blade 9/8 T-Rex "Hors serie"

Now that is some razor, well done!

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Kent T4
Martin de Candre
Filly 13 DT, white scales
Roger & Gallet / L'Oreal balms
Creed Aventus

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Very cool pop art :-)

Thanks Carl.

Thanks for all the Birthday messages fellas, they really made me feel good.

YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME

Grant

Prep: Shower
Brush: Semogue OC Boar Cherry
Razor: Nitti "77" Japanese Straight
Soap: Mitchel's Wool Fat
Astringent: Osma Alum
Aftershave: Speick




Result: Not quite BBS but close. Very little sting. Impressed by the blade - shaving was a fairly effortless experience.

I must be the only shaver in existence unable to get a good face lather from MWF. London water is full of chalk!

Proraso|G5|Mountain Badger|MWF|Square Deal|Tabac|Iggy'sBalm

Have a Great Thursday Gents!

Razor: F.W. Engels 5/8
Shave prep Morning shave, so a hot shower
Brush: D.R. Harris
Preshave: –
Soap: D.R. Harris – Arlington
Scuttle: Simple soup bowl
Strop: Kanayama 20 canvas strokes and 60+ strokes on the leather
After Shave Splash: Nivea aftershave Balm

Notes:
Well, after reading about it here in several threads I thought: you never know if you don’t try. So I did a cold water shave.
Mmm, after having had a hot shower this just didn’t do it for me. The shave went okay I guess; no better or worse than a good hot shave although building a cold lather was lousy. However the blade glided well and skin felt okay undergoing the cold chopping.

But the experience as a whole I didn’t quite like. I miss the hot towels and lather on my face!
I will try again with another blade, that could maybe bring some change, in the same way as it does in a hot shave.
Already I dislike putting the adjective ‘hot’ to ‘shave’. When I say ‘shave’, I mean hot!

Paul